Current Projects chat and miscellany

Sounds like an awesome trip! You're going to have to excuse my ignorance though - what is particularly special about this bike? I have an old MTB in a shed that I'd struggle to tell apart from this. I assume it's got good bits, but apart from that?
Thorn, have a lot experiance making no nonsense touring and trekking bikes. Your old MTB might be of equal or better quality for all I know. But it wont have the same quality and selection of braze-on etc. That make the bike what it is.

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Secondly, that bike cost a mere £300 instead of £1300 for a starter model, the frame retailed at £450, which make this bike an excellent value over old rigid steel mtb.

Also it rode very stable and stiff, it also have a lower BB than mtb, while it look like an MTB, it's an entirely different kettle of fish.

I'd rather go with a quality bike and not worried about it falling apart than a cheap bike that need replacing every thousand of miles, especially when it probably will cost as much as a new tourer.

Thorn, have a lot experiance making no nonsense touring and trekking bikes. Your old MTB might be of equal or better quality for all I know. But it wont have the same quality and selection of braze-on etc. That make the bike what it is.

Interesting, cheers. My old MTB is a gas pipe shitter but looks pretty much identical to the Thorn

Is Trevisco near Treviso?

It's the Italian branch of Tescos

why did you cover up the chrome? any pictures of the bottom bracket and serial number? you should fill in the pinarello at the top of the seat stays.

ah you fadge! i was bidding on that on ebay! well nuice innit! keep us posted with how she turns out!

Will do, I kind of guessed the competition would have come from this forum... :-)

Chrome on the chain stay? Didn't take any pictures of the serial number & bottom bracket.

Going to fill in the Pinarello logo and possibly line the lugs. Any advice on how to do that?

Going to fill in the Pinarello logo and possibly line the lugs. Any advice on how to do that?

Carefully.
But what's the point of posting it? Are you showing it off? Selling it? Asking advice?

Mainly showing off.....and also advice.

What kind of paint is best for lining lugs?

Okay, well there's a thread for that, so you'd best sit tight until the Merge-a-tron moves it there for you.

In the meantime, read the forum more.

Mainly showing off.....and also advice.

What kind of paint is best for lining lugs?

Tricky question.

Google knows.

Lug lining is a skill.

I'm tried but was crap.

Pics would look better with forks IMHO.

Nice frame BTW

Okay, well there's a thread for that, so you'd best sit tight until the Merge-a-tron moves it there for you.

In the meantime, read the forum more.

OK, that seems like a more appropriate place to post the pics. Cheers

Look at the page number.

Maybe Regal's tweeked his spokes or something.

Missed my chance, although my spokes shouldn't need tweaking anyway. ;)

Nice one Ed, and more rep to Manxandy.

Your old MTB might be of equal or better quality for all I know. But it wont have the same quality and selection of braze-on etc

My old MTBs have been ultimately frustrating PsOS, without anything that fits anywhere that you can replace at all with anything anyhow ever. 21.1mm steerers? fs. 1mm BB drops, no thanks. That Thorn will be good, albeit fugly.

james use a cd marker pen for lug lining,vaz used a gold pen on my moser for the panto's and lugs

One thing I don't get tho is why all the spacers?

If it's designed to be used with that many, why not have a longer head tube? I guess it's cheaper for them to make, but if they're fairly pricey anyway...

Yeah, I am pleased.

Andy, the staff have now started calling me the name you've written of me on the box as repetitive as that fucking Friday song, is that what you were trying to aim for?

Not really, but it is an added bonus.

;-)

Set of these are in the post from Taiwan for Project:Wheels of Death

£99 for hubs and skewers shipped to the door.

Hubs are 270g, skewers are 43g.

In the spirit of Wheels of Death I'll build these myself.

Rims will be (probably) these:

Currently engaged in negotiations on these, I will update with the final price when agreed.

Rims are listed as 410g each, so 820g of rims, with hubs and skewers we have 1,133g.

What spokes is the question- bearing in mind that this project is all about budget?

I was thinking Sapim Laser.

Drilling is 20F 24R

^ I'll be very interested in what these are like, please keep us informed