Current Projects chat and miscellany

Brian your bikes are all pretty bland tbh.

bigger gear ratio and perfect for a velodrome

my bianchi is ready

shouldn't like it, but god I really really do like that

Hotness.

Clinchers or Tubs?

clinchers

Thought so.

And a SRAM Red crankset?

yeah - I just noticed that :/

and straps?

Who makes those wheels?

Reynolds.

are you sure?

yeah - I just noticed that :/

and straps?

MKS double straps

Who makes those wheels?

reynolds

Reynolds.

reynolds

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The wheels are Reynolds.

Very smart! Impressed you managed to paint the lugs - not bad for rattle canning. Those old stems with drilling for centre pulls are aces

Cheers! Painted the lugs with a small brush in front of the tv one night. Drilled the old Holdsworth steel stem myself (but didn't hear any puppies yelping) and used a cable adjuster from an old GB brake lever. I'm chuffed with it. Although the 27 x 1 1/4 tyres still look a bit like tractor tyres in my eyes.

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Ditto.

I need a little geared help please, is there going to be a huge difference (top speed wise, I know it will give me a better low range) between running the following:

48-36 up front with a 12-25 cassette
and
44-32-22 up front with an 11-25 cassette

Thanks very much.

I need the extra range of a triple, but don't want to loose spin out a full whack. Will the extra 1t on the cassette go much way to making up for the loss of 4t up front?

48/12 = 32,1 mph @ 100 rpm
44/11 = 32,1 mph @ 100 rpm
Not much of a difference...

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my cat likes the current project.

black stem and flite would look good. and seatpost looks a little bulky. But its looking pretty fresh, glad its been built on here!

that paint is gert lush, those ellipses?

nice bike, remember seeing that on the bay last week. good price, too.

black stem and flite would look good. and seatpost looks a little bulky. But its looking pretty fresh, glad its been built on here!

yeah, seatpost and saddle just what i had to hand, will definitely get changed! will look into putting a flite on it.

needs a stripped slr.
really nice frame that. looks good with the ellipses.

that paint is gert lush, those ellipses?

yep, hopefully have it ready for the track by saturday.