Current Projects chat and miscellany

Thanks for answering that! Yeah I would have guessed that there wasn't any one source of information. I for one would happily buy the big PDF of bicycle electrics 101

The bullets aren't too bad because you fill them with solder and then dip the wire in. But you need a reasonably powerful soldering iron, and have to work quickly once you have the pool molten

It was 124mm and X3 cross on shit rim...Nuovo Tipo hubs
Now 126mm go X4 cross on Mavic "module 3" 15mm inside wide clincher rim !

Finished my tourer bike for this years' ride through the French Alps.

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28mm

Nice! Just curious; what's your lowest gear? And do you have any pictures where it's loaded?

Grumble grumble grumble, supposed to have clearance for 27.5x3.0

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Just don’t go in any mud!

It’s actually resting between lugs :/

I ride 22-32-44 icw a 9 speed 13-25. Last year I went from the Ardèche in France to Bern in Switzerland, crossing 9 Alpine cols (Glandon and others) and 22 x 25 was ok to ride my bike asis on the photo... I putted on the front rack so I can move some stuff to the front...

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Cool. I went from 30x32 to 30x36 as my lowest gear for this year's tour.

Have fun in the Alpes!

Thanks. Haven't decided yet what route to take. I have a train ticket to Valence the 24 th of July and I have to be back in Valence the evening of August 4 th.

Where are you going?

Where are you going?

Well, the plan was to take the ferry to Newcastle on Saturday and tour Scotland for two weeks. But to my surprise as I found out today, it seems that no ferries are leaving from IJmuiden till the 27th. Or they're all booked? And my vacation window is pretty set in stone due to work. Might go to Wales now. Start from Hull and after two weeks take the ferry from Harwich back home.

hey, what dates are you in the UK? want to ride together for a few days?

I'll send you a PM.

Now I feel better about riding this machine. Much paranoia, mad PS skills.

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Think this is the right place for this.

I've been waiting to add some proper front luggage to my arkose but the lack of mounts have killed that.

I've been searching for forks and short of the fyxation forks or ordering from Carbonda its all quite pricey.

I've seen these and this looks like it could be a winner.

I know fuck all about geometry and how this would affect the handling.

From what I can see - the arkose has a head angle of 71.5 and a fork offset of 39mm and the pine mountain has 69 angle and an offset of 51mm .

Will this make my arkose into a deathtrap, or no discernible change? Also I guess headsets etc, could I run into issues there?

Nice 😆

I know fuck all about geometry

What you need to know is that the Pine Mountain fork is a lot longer that the Arkose fork, by enough that it's going to completely fuck up your whole bike geometry.

This exactly the kind of super obvious and critical thing I'd not thought of. Thanks!

Having some trouble fitting a Cetma rack, the struts don’t sit flat against the dropouts. Anyone got any suggestions?

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Space it out if bolt is long enough or get the "dropouts" on the rack remade

new stem

Reckon this is safe or should I be using a spacer with a bigger radius

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It is a tricky one. Bigger spacer would probably be better. It is a hard one to judge without being on site. But since cetma is secured fairly well at the handlebars I would not be that worried myself