Talbot Path Racer

Dammit with deep carbon? I wouldn't have guessed it

^ A Welsh Man is building a fancy carbon rim onto a horrible draggy dynamo hub.

What is happening?

I love the DA 7700 stuff, but I think to use it would have ended up with a contradiction- unless I flogged the Rotor cranks and went fully DA.

Therefore I've decided to go "full retard", and we're going to go for a totally modern bike- oversized, profiled steel rather than traditional narrow tubes, a carbon fork rather than steel etc etc.

Hmmmm.

Does that mean intergrated heat tube and no need for ugleh stem dammit?

Looks awesome.

Dynamo lights- to be permanently attached to the bike.

What do people use/recommend?

Does that mean intergrated heat tube and no need for ugleh stem dammit?

Yeah, probably going to use an Arx Pro now.

Can't beat an ARX Pro.

Just because it's modern doesn't necessarily mean deep rims though right? Why so deep?

I had the front with the dynamo already.

Hah, ok. I was expecting some in depth technical explanation or something.

Nah, I just like the idea of having a dynamo for this bike, and deep carbon is never a mistake.

The front wheel is actually the wheel from the not-yet-built trailer, and can therefore be swapped between bikes depending on what I'm doing.

Power all the things!

What brakes? Clincher or tub?

It's a clincher, but the largest hill it will face will be in England, so I'm relatively sanguine about it.

It's going to be 52x18 so I won't be able to go up a hill large enough to melt the rims on the descent.

planning on grinding your way around? isn't this going to be the commuter?

^ This.

Or is it going to be 650b to give a more spinny ratio?

#ubinscobled

Careful there James (I'm building a 650b).

Careful there James (I'm a scoblephile).

ftfy

I was posting 650b touring bikes on the porn thread years ago. When Ed was only interested in "true track geometry". Just saying like.

Anyway Neil any progress on this one?

I was into 650b touring bikes long before they were scobool.
I see.

Anyway Neil any progress on this one?

Planning stage at the moment.

Debating using a belt drive but I don't know much about them, so some learning to do.

Ideally I would like power on this bike as historically I've done the bulk of my midweek miles on whatever my fixed gear was at the time.

However that would mean finding a White industries compatible belt drive sprocket. And I am not sure that such a think exists.

Hmmmm.

Looks awesome.

Dynamo lights- to be permanently attached to the bike.

What do people use/recommend?

This light looks good.

MOAR pics of the Spec AWOL. They've got a really neat lighting/charging setup on there. And belt drive.

Although we are no longer able to mention AWOL without being sued.

I really like that Specialized, anyone know what the lowest gear is? I'd want the bottom gear to be equivalent to 22x34 or similar.