Current Projects chat and miscellany

Lovely.

That deserves a nicer seatpost.

Can we have an outside daytime photo? I'm sure that lighting isn't doing the paintjob any favours.

Totally! And yeah, is not finished at all...

love this build. great use of a old camera bag.

Thanks :) The bag cost me £4 at the local Salvation Army store. Initially had it hanging from the handlebars, then got that rack off of ChrisMSG, but puzzled for a while about fastening. Found a strip of aluminum siding (or something) on my way home one day that serves as support on the back (mounted inside the bag, fixed using strips), and the front is tied down using strips around an old, broken aero-spoke bent up at the ends, likewise sitting inside the bag. Carried the 5D used to take those pics today, will mostly carry clothes and food on longer rambles.

how do you find the weight on the forks? affects handling?

New bars and saddle. Just waiting for lizard skin

I think i tried to bid on this on Ebay a few months ago, Aende right?

lovely frame

Finally added a new chain and changed thebar setup on my lo pro.. i overdid the saddle angle tweak and it needs non recycled bar tape but pleased its back on the road..

My project for this evening after more interesting plans were cancelled:

Riddle me that.

I can't work out what's happening here

He drilled his seatpost for cable routing is my guess.

Mad bas.

Still can't work out what I can see in the seatube in that last picture.

In other news, my Donohue still doesn't have a seatpost that fits.

I have been commuting on it with a 27mm post, but that is definitely too small for it, and in the first week, slipped a fair bit and now shows some nice scratches.

Might have another wrestle with the 27.2mm later on, after using the 27mm as a rudimentary reamer to try and scrape off any burrs that might be stopping the 27.2mm post fitting. What could go wrong?

Would using carbon fibre grip paste with the 27mm post work?

I don't really want to keep using it, as it doesn't look too good at the seat clamp area. It's clearly being pinched a bit too much.

Just finishing up my Concorde, does the Campagnolo record pista lockring turn clockwise like normal or anticlockwise? Can't seem to get it to move. Doing it wrong or stuck? If stuck, any advice?

Pista lock rings always turn anti clockwise..

Edit, so if you want to loosen them turn clockwise.

Also it can be stuck, you could use a flathead screwdriver and a hammer, always works for me haha.

cool thanks, just to make sure. i need to turn it right to get it off?

Yes

If it definitely is a Pista hub not a freewheel thread with a BB lockring...but that should have been pretty easy to spot I guess.

it has track nuts and not at quick release. a "c" with a diamond on the lock ring... i hope they are!....

My bit of shit. New forks and brakes incoming any day, anti-theft machine.

http://i.imgur.com/8QNXA.jpg

Wooooops

Still can't work out what I can see in the seatube in that last picture.

That's how the rear brake cable gets from inside the top tube to the brake.

That's how the rear brake cable gets from inside the top tube to the brake.

pictures from the side?