Current Projects chat and miscellany

I wish I had loads of money and could have a current project that made evryone go "oooooooooh ! Nice looking project Broux !"

Don't need loads of cash to build a great bike.

Yeah, but expensive bikes always seem so much nicer :D
I'm just trying to find excuses for the crapiness of my bike, really

Finally finished my Raleigh Equipe budget build. Total cost including paint job £158.95

See, now that's the sort of project that makes me feel like a complete idiot for spending way too much money on making a shit bike when I could have spent tons less on making a nice one...
Ah well, first project is (almost) always a bit of a beginning to a steep learning curve !

^ Great job Chris. Looks awesome.

Your grasp of my language is fine - good enough that I didn't even know you were not writing in your native tongue. Mixing up criterium and criterion is common among native English speakers.

thanks man! i appreciate your contributions on linguistics as much as those on bike tech, just misinterpreted the puns

about bikes - the cinelli, merckx, walker, raleigh & GT can move to the porn section right away imo!

+1

I would kill a man for that Merckx, it is absolutely beautiful.

Should be easy to shift http://www.lfgss.com/thread44010.html

Thanks for the headzup

about bikes - the cinelli, merckx, walker, raleigh & GT can move to the porn section right away imo!

Your right Peter! To bad though about the brake on that Cinelli.. Fucks up the whole front

At least it means the rider won't fuck up his face :)

@ KIngcutter... are those track drops on your wifes bike?!?!

@ oswald Thomson is not a perm fixture going to use a Duraace or ultegra
@ DFP wife has shoulder problem so I use double wrap and a short stubby stem
@ hoops cinelli Giro

So far this bike has had a lot of cranks.

Sugino 75 (165)
Campag C-Record Pista
Dura Ace 7710
Sugino 75 (170)

Saddle needs moving forward 5-10mm as I currently have it adjusted slightly further back for the risers I had on there before. This will happen tomorrow morning.

So much nicer with drops, Mr Crowe !
Don't you dare respray it...

You only put the risers on last week. Are you running out of projects, Max? :-)

Didn't you made a huge rants about 165 a while ago?

They were all I had when I got the Cannondale, hence riding them until getting something longer.

Fuck off man... Is this forum here for advice or not? thought somebody might have one...

I've got 1/8" pop rivets and the setting tool, but I'm pretty sure they're not the correct solution to fitting a head badge for two reasons.
1: 1/8" is a pretty big hole to put in your head badge and head tube, much bigger than is necessary to hold it together
2: Pop rivets project a long way behind the rear work-piece, in this case into the inside of the head tube. Enough that your steerer likely won't fit through after riveting, since the clearance between steerer and head tube is only about 1/16"

The correct solution is to make an anvil from 1" diameter solid steel bar, so that when you smack the head of the rivet the entire load is transferred to the anvil, which should be supported from both ends where it projects through the head tube. Ideally, some kind of head forming recess should be indented into the anvil, and even more ideally you'll do the riveting with a toggle press rather than a hammer. The idea is to squash the rivet between the die and the anvil without applying any load to the head tube which could deform it.

Since all this is a big PITA if you're only doing one, why not just Araldite it on, maybe with some fake rivets on the outside if you want to maintain an original appearance?

They were all I had when I got the Cannondale, hence riding them until getting something longer.

Buy my 175mm C-Record Pistas, they'll suit your gangly limbs.

I've got 1/8" pop rivets....etc

or just use prit stick

From where?

If you pay to psot it/post it back to me, I'll lend you mine.

Finally finished my Raleigh Equipe budget build. Total cost including paint job £158.95

Portsmouth City paint job? Disgusting. I went to uni in Portsmouth/Used to ride a trials bike on the law court walls. true story.