Current Projects chat and miscellany

Winter's coming, so I'm not going to be riding fixed gear for a while.

My track bikes:

Probably going to put some more classic silver parts on this. Don't know anything about the history of this frame (apart from Austin Texas) so I'm quite open on what to do with it.

My race/travel bike. Really needs new wheels. Apart from that I'm super happy with this.

Just put this back together after over a year of being unused. Would like to find a 1" stem for this but it'll be hard to find one in 17deg.

This is nowhere near done. Just slapped on what I had in hand to feel if it rides straight after trying to align the frame. I've got a lot of original parts, but it's all pretty shit, so they wouldn't make the bike very nice to ride.

all so rad man!

35mm = 1.378"

OK, useful to know.

do thin spacers exist? I'm looking for 1" spacers for under a salsa ahead stem, maybe 10mm or so under and 5mm on top, but all my alu ones are too chunky and don't sit flush...

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do thin spacers exist?

They do, but at the moment only in 1⅛"

Above the stem I can help, 1" top caps with integrated spacer are in stock in raw aluminium.

Ti spacers are often thinner than aluminium ones.

@veLLo solved this problem recently I think.

just have a rummage at the lbs in the spares box. found some fitting ones for the slim syntace stem I had that way

Other than testers made, I've seen nitto made spacers (about 500 yen) in blue lug Tokyo.

@TM @spotter are these the bars you're riding?
http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/humpert-lady-town-riser-handlebars-254mm-clamp-600mm-prod27375/

how you findin em?

TM is using the lady town's as is @pops I believe, but mine are another model of humpert

I mean to be honest at £6 a pair i cant really complain. @TM whatsayyou?

600mm is narrooooow though

look for a perfekt sized tube and make them DIY, ive done it a couple of times and it works fine if you find a tube that fits!

New hybrid project, bought the frame from @haveo !

Excellent bars, great sweep, stiff, cheap... 10/10

look for a perfekt sized tube

Easier said than done. This is pretty close, but the bore may come up just shy of 1" depending on the tolerances. The 1⅜"×10g I used for my spacers should have been under 1⅛" bore based on the nominal dimensions, but fitted perfectly and I just had to turn down the OD to get the wall thickness right, so 1⅛"×16g may be worth a punt for 1" spacers. You could always hand ream it to size, as it's only going to be about 0.002" under if it's exactly the nominal size.

Of course, a proper tart would make the spacer taper so that it blended into the headset upper cover and the stem perfektly[sic] :-)

I took a tube from a bikeframe and i have ride maybe 2000k with those DIY spacers, no problem at all.

Or couldn't you just get some 1 1/8" steel streerer offcuts and cut them to the right length?
-IF you're looking for 1" spacers.

thats my biggest issue... not too narrow for you @TM

Quick seatpost change on the way out the door this morning, just need to put it down a 1/2 cm, adjust the angle slightly and then it ought to be about done for a while.

I took a tube from a bikeframe and i have ride maybe 2000k with those DIY spacers, no problem at all

Yes, as long as you get the faces parallel pretty much any lump of metal will do the job. As @ObiWomKenobi is using a CK headset, I'd be even more concerned than usual about getting the faces precisely parallel, as the original CK upper didn't use a proper collet, so it relied on the compression being square more than a Dia Compe patent model, which tends to get the upper bearing co-axial with the steerer pretty well even if the pressure is not uniformly distributed around the circumference of the collet.

get some 1 1/8" steel streerer offcuts

As long as the wall thickness is 1.6mm or less, that would work.

Because of the angle of the sweep, they feel plenty wide.

Really I can't imagine you not liking them.