Current Projects chat and miscellany

sorry about the flat front tyre & dirty bartape... project = polishing my arse off for the last couple of days. so, some more polishing to do, some tyre fixing & black bartape and tomorrow it will be ready to ride

on the streets:

and on the track:

49 degrees, feels like riding on a vertical wall.

nice job mate,really like you bike....

Well due to some fork issues on the Rixon, I've swapped all the components over onto the Look until the Rixon is sorted!

Awesome - great build

The Look is amazing.

a quick build of the Roberts i picked up fom Hilary a couple of weeks ago
Apologies for the shit photo - will take some proper ones at some point (after I have changed the bar tape and pedals)

Yes Dan! Looks sick man!
You in Bath on sat? Hopefully not with this mind!

@pistoffski - what fork issues with Rixon if you don't mind me asking?

@mancesco - love yr bike.

mr lunch when am i going to see the rixon?! have u built it up?

Harry, Try the Gilles Berthoud. I have them on my blue Quinn and Velocio has them on his Mather. Nice stainless steel, they look great (smooth, not hammered though) and they don't rattle.

And I reckon you might want to cut the ends down on the North Rd bars after a while, so don't do anything too permanent to them until you've ridden it a for a bit.

I'm very aware things almost certainly will change once built and been ridden a bit.
Right now I'm kinda guesstimating.

Thanks for the heads up on the french shop. Will keep it in mind for future changes / projects.

Miller, if you don't mind me asking, where is the serial number located on the LOOK frame?
I have a old track frame sold as a LOOK but I have mmy doubts and can't find any frame number.
Also are those Bocama lugs?

no probs but i only ordered it today, when it comes i will inform you more, pm me in a week if you remember. cant wait to get it up and running

@ muleboy - I built it up pretty much just after I bought it off you, but I've not done decals yet so was going to wait till then to post up piccies. Should hurry up really. Love it though. Because the frame is quite tight (and flexy), I had to have my front wheel perfectly trued and the brake at exactly the right angle so that the front tyre doesn't rub when I'm climbing. (that could sound weird out of context?!)

i asked my mate, but he can't find the high res graphics we drew up on illustrator :( sorry man

I have a low res version of some graphics if its any good to you

just need a new seat!

@ muleboy - No worries, I've got a few mates who are designers, so I'll get them to look at what you did and then give them a bit of license, see what they come up with?

well i just learned that the crown on an NJS fork is 27.0mm and my Chris King has a 26.4 race.

anyone else have to deal with this ever?

spackle?

well i just learned that the crown on an NJS fork is 27.0mm and my Chris King has a 26.4 race.

anyone else have to deal with this ever?

yes. you need the crown race reamed down to 26.4mmish and the headtube (if also JIS) reamed out to 30.2mmish. basically, you just need the headtube and fork crown reamed and faced as would normally be done for an ISO headset.

or just get a jis headset

Yes Dan! Looks sick man!
You in Bath on sat? Hopefully not with this mind!

Yeah - on the lo-pro

just need a new seat!

And a smaller frame.

And a smaller frame.

+1

Got the following email from Robin Mather last night

As promised, a few pictures of what I've been up to. Like I said on the phone, some of it's not actually that exciting but just necessary steps (the disc brake just stops the jig from swinging around). Also, by way of an excuse for slow progress on the ti, a picture of the steel stem I finished off this afternoon. Most of the photo's of welded ti show just the fusion pass, the filler pass will be added later. The brass heatsinks will sit inside the head tube during welding to minimise distortion. The grooves around the outside help to distribute the argon. I just have to make the cones that pull into the tapered ends to expand it into the tube then I'll be all set for the front triangle.

Also attached are drawings of your bike and mine for comparison, the final design for the new headbadge (I sent the drawing off to the photo-etch place last week so should get the first batch back soon) and where I'm currently at with the branding for the rest of the frame.

So he has to finish his bike build a couple more and then mine.

the ti road proto is his spec for his own frame, at the moment he is having to build a lot of the required tools as he goes, so production will become much faster

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very very nice,

(adds titanium to wanted list)

Cheers Miller, will try to remember.

The grooves around the outside help to distribute the argon.

Coolest. Sentence. Ever.

sorry about the flat front tyre & dirty bartape... project = polishing my arse off for the last couple of days. so, some more polishing to do, some tyre fixing & black bartape and tomorrow it will be ready to ride

looking pretty nice allready

I like it a lot, but then I would. :-)

Where did you get the frame Peter? Is it one of the ones RA Cycles in Brooklyn had. What model is it?

But why would you ever need a triple in Holland?