Current Projects chat and miscellany

Wife picked up a Pursuit Champion for me as a birthday present. Best wife ever. It came with a few retro goodies, just need to sort out what I can and can't get away with using fifteen years on.

In forum tradition, first thing to do was go brklss, throw on gumwall tubs and risers. Bonus: original 75 chainring too.

Next step is turning it into a proper (slaveish) fixed TT machine. Got some spare bits about to put on for now and then build from there.

Lol for a second I thought press in 2nd pic was a handlebar

Got any plans for the old wheels?

That's a mighty fine bday present. Current set-up looks good! If you build a TT machine, I vote for black cinelli angel bars.

Italian all the way the wheels are perfectooooo

I'm not sure yet. Both the clinchers and tubs are Pete Matthew's built with tasty 90s hubs (Hope and Zeus) and flat rolled spokes, so some nice provenance there. On the other hand, I could sell them to help fund a trispoke and raltech. Suginos might get traded in for a Pistard Air too at some point.

Clearance for regular, full-sized lenticular RALTech covers was very very tight on mine (with a 23mm wide rear rim). Needed to chop the cover down so the braking surface was exposed, and there wasn't enough clearance for the plastic fasteners, so had to use double-sided sticky foam tape under the covers, sealed with electrical tape on the outside. Even then, the wheel had to be positioned a fair way back in the dropouts, although your PM rims might be more narrow and less of an issue.
To be safe, try to find the 'low profile', wobbly covers (if fitting to existing wheels), or combine a cover with a deep carbon rear rim :-)

Deep carbon or a full track disc it is then!

Well let me know if you do sell, I might be able to grab them off you, if clinchers.

60k done on this lower-bearing-resting-on-tapered-shoulder.

Easy way to test out longer headtube and slacker head angle.

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How do you like the wahoo?

Great - check out the wahoo thread if you want more opinions.

A change of plans recently left we with a 'spare' pair of deep carbon disc wheels, oh well...

Awesome

Rad to the max

How?

Tapered fork is wider than a normal 1⅛ bearing - surrogatcrownrace

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Haha, smart!

Fitting a Narrow Wide ring to 2x road cranks; what bolts do I need?

single ring bolts.

How did you ensure bearings were co-planar?

Guess luck was my only tool

No other things needed?

Nope. Not unless its a Sram force ring

It's not, oval 4 arm ring from Absolutblack on 105.