Current Projects chat and miscellany

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Very nice. IMHO the belt system really come in to its own off-road. Mud simply falls off on the trail, so you finish with a drivetrain feeling as nice as when you started, and a quick rinse is all thats needed post ride.

Disc braked, belt drive and room for knobbly tyres - almost made me envious but should have made it from Ti :-)

Some really nice work there...This is my vintage Carlton...

sort out the bars

A friend of mine has just started building frames, so I hit him up for one.

Its a 700c, fillet brazed, disc braked commuter with belt drive, It has one off laser cut 4130 dropouts and segmented fork, also has a one off bar/stem combo.

the front end is Reynolds 631 and the rear triangle is 753.

Its turned out great, better than I ever envisioned, and Tom has added some nice little finishing touches of his own.

Currently waiting on belt drive components so we can do a dry build to ensure it all fits and Toms calculations were all correct. After that, its final clean up and paint time.

Cant wait to ride it.

More details can be found here...

http://donhoubicycles.com/

very nice.

Just got my new set of wheels for my Revolution Track, now unsure as to remove the Lettering on the Rims...looks like they are just stuck on.....any ideas ?
Constructive or Not accepted

^he said they were stuck on.

We're clearly not dealing with an orange here.

Yeah, we're dealing with stickers, which stick on AND THEN AS IF BY MAGIC can be peeled off.

Not a fan of oranges.....
Will defo be peeling them off...(the Stickers)
May even Crush a Grape afterward.

could replace the stickers with orange peel, then every bodies happy

(ignore this comment, it adds nothing)

Think it'd look better with old metal bottle cages too

Pistanator.....
Either you are a mind reader...or you've been looking at my list of changes....!!!!!

quite chuffed with what I got in the mail from my friend in Japan:

a vintage Toei from 1971, slightly adapted to fit 700c wheels and a wider rear axle, then resprayed

I will be building this up over the winter with nice classic randonneur stuff like fenders, racks, Brooks saddle & bartape etc.

will have to measure my saddle height precisely though, as the rear brake cable goes through the seat tube!

(and yes the front brake cable retainer thingy now faces the right way up - figured that out after scratching the top tube - oops)

Whoooosh nice one Peter

That is going to be so nice when it's done. Special.

The graphics on the Toei are incredible.

thnx guys

them Honjo fenders are pretty expensive though!

and they make scones as well if you believe the title of the site ;)

Just get plastic ones, lighter and better.

If you do get metal ones, I think they would look awesome if they matched the colour of the frame.

(and yes the front brake cable retainer thingy now faces the right way up - figured that out after scratching the top tube - oops)

It's the right way up in this picture, but it should be above the serrated ring, so that the serrations mesh, not sandwiched between them.

thnx mdcc, stupid of me. will change them around once more!

@ DFP hmmm.... no plastic, I'm thinking of the hammered ones...

more japanese randonneur niceness

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Peter that Toei is fucking lust.

expectingEdatanymomentsoon

I always think that when someone posts a picture of a bike rack. :o)