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Horsforth, Leeds

ah right, do you ride with sam and the guys in leeds? am in harrogate - i always assumed you're in malaysia!

no wait - just asked sam and he said yes (he works at my office) - i just don't pay attention

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Poor tape effort.

that is seriously nice

http://i.imgur.com/zAJdu.jpg

forks on that venneto (?) track bike are sick. both in construction and colour, looks like a champagne sort of colour.

I've done a jizz.

Yes, but look how long people coped with home made dual levers. Many people still use home made/rik specials. As I said, I wouldn't be that difficult to make a dual lever. You're probably right that there probably isn't going to be a dual hyd lever as there isn't a demand for them.

Avid BB7's are £60 per caliper
Shimano Deore are £30 per caliper

Paul Levers are £60! £60 for a fucking brake lever!
Shimano SLX are £25 a lever.

The way I'm thinking you'd run 2 master cylinders alongside each other and a single lever. That's still only £50. You'd have to modify it but still it shouldn't be too difficult. On the other hald you could look into some motorbike trials brakes to see the size of the pistons to run a simple t-piece to split front/back.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but in the 90s Hope made a twin front disc setup with Pace. Swear I remember seeing pics of it in the bike mags of the time for DH racing. It ran from one pretty normal looking sport lever to two twin piston calipers (XC2 calipers?).

Really if you do your maths/ get your micro-calipers out, you don't need two masters at all. Just one lever, but a larger volume job, say that of the monster Mono6 caliper from a few years ago, and then two mono-mini/mono-moto calipers use that hydro 360 headset thing, then make something so you can attach the two frame side hoses fit to the one out let from the hydro headset. Balancing might be interesting, but TBH there will probably be something ideal in the RS catalogue (almost always is) for flow/pressure reduction, or even a decently controlled bleed session would be fine for the most part.
with that ^^^^ you might be lucky and be able to do it with all off the shelf parts for not a lot of money (£120? with used calipers/lever, new headset thing, and clarks braided hoses).

Talking of trashing hoses, I've been riding hydro discs on all my MTB's for 12yrs+ and I've NEVER bust a hose (and I used to crash plenty), I only use what they come with (mostly Hopes, had one set of hayes and two sets of shimanos, shimano had the poorest quality hose/hydro fittings by far).

A bit before my time but I'm sure my brother will be able to help me with my research.

I agree you don't absolutely need 2 master cylinders just a larger piston than is standard for the caliper. I was thinking mini-moto/motor trials but haven't delved too deep into that yet. I know Hope do use different size pistons in their calipers and levers but I don't know it it's quite enough.

Balancing wouldn't be too difficult - you just need to choose two calipers with slight different displacement amounts. And a browse through an RS components catalouge can't do any harm. I have my cable dual brake set for the rear to come in first and lock. As you say, not that expensive but everyone seems to imagine that hydraulic = ££££

Same with the riding. I've never broken anything apart from a lever that was only after the bike took a 50ft leap through trees.

I just did a sick. From my penis. feel like I'm looking in the pulp fiction briefcase/at the end of Indiana Jones. SO SHINY.

It's from here http://prollyisnotprobably.com/2011/07/beautiful_bicycle_marks_majaco.php (google reverse image search is amazing)

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^Deets?

Poor tape effort.

Think this is my favourite paint job ever... lush.

man sized en all.

it looks like a cut-and-shut.

it is nice though

at first glance I wondered if it was a half paint TI frame... that would be all kind of awesome.

^Deets?

That's a Fairwheel Bikes project and on their site.

They rigged Dura Ace Di2 to shift sequentially over the full 2x10 gears. Quite possibly a glimpse into the future.

Think I've got a woody...

£9500 bike comes with bodygard.

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He's alright I s'pose.

yeh its not particulary special. only thing that makes it different is the 24 carte gold paint on it.