Current Projects chat and miscellany

Ontopic: How's your Concorde coming along? Any changes and/or immediate plans?

Phww. No. Its on hold till June 10. I've got some plans but they're not quite concrete yet so I shan't spill ATM.

new black front tubular

incoming for the track build,

Perfect. Are those Soma Highway bars?

These are coming right now.

....And these after 9-10 weeks:

I am disproportionately pleased with myself. Now with wanging action.

Classic

Nearing completion with this for summer, just need to finish building the matching front wheel. Would also like some Zipp drop bars and eventually some Woundups
http://www.pedalroom.com/bike/rychtarski-columbus-max-23192

You got MaX, don't need woundups.

And oh, forget that I have also these coming to me. What I've have done..
GT GTB, "50"

And carbon fork for the frame.

• black Chris King headset and Mack hubs.
  
  

at Tomvanhalen.....

curious as to the spring mod.
Is it a crude form of steering damper ?
Is it so you can cycle no handed with a loaded front basket ?

Bit of a fad a while back for DH bikes to get retro fitted with a headset steering damper, never quite seen one like yours...... :)
Neat mod, but really whats it's intended function, i got's to know !

don't need woundups

Would be for slave points and weight. Not stiffness if thats what you thought I meant

Crude? How very dare you ;)

But yes, sort of. The bike's got a lot of trail, so actually it tracks okay without the spring, can cycle no-handed without issues at most speeds (if it was a low-trail fork it would help there) but it should aid low-speed steering

The main function for me is to stop the front flopping over when the bike's stationary, so I can lean it up against walls, lock it, load the rack etc, without worrying about the bars hitting the top tube and the whole lot tipping over.

You see them attached to Dutch Bikes quite frequently.

This is a Velo Orange one for instance. Mine's an awful lot burlier

Ta, dutchies use them, is that so they can roll one while riding :)

Bit late, spotted the blue coloured linky bit to your other thread so more makes sense. Gotta love spares box ghetto fixes :) 10/10 for effort and thinking and budget busting.

http://www.hopey.org for the mountain bike dampers, bit spendy though.

The main function for me is to stop the front flopping over when the bike's stationary, so I can lean it up against walls, lock it, load the rack etc, without worrying about the bars hitting the top tube and the whole lot tipping over.

Rubber band over front brake lever. Problem solved!

Yeah, spotted those. Not sure how much use they'd be, don't think bicycles really suffer from the sort of steering forces motorcycles do! Wouldn't physically pull the front end back in line like a spring anyway

@7Üp rack's too heavy even unloaded! Would just overcome the grip of the tyre I think

I meant max is plenty slave

Yes Soma And Thank's a lot !

Good point, I haven't tried with much weight up front.

I think the cost put off most for fitting a hopey to a DH bike.

The only use i could see would have been in the 6 hour DH enduro at Fort William, wanging through the rocks at 30ish after a few laps there can get exciting, don't recall seeing anyone use one for that event which is about as extreme as it gets here in the UK.
Possibly overkill for most UK tracks.

Was interesting to see they do a TT version which puts them in the domain of Mdcc Tester, i could see the advantage for helping on windy days, minimal gains an all that, i wonder if they are more common in TT events.

Such slave I have become.

Ignore saddle height and angle, short arse guy I work with borrowed it and adjusted without putting back.

Stem won't slam any further, needs quill to be chopped.

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can cycle no-handed without issues at most speeds

OOh look at you.

^love that