Current Projects chat and miscellany

Happy?

Nope

it wasn't a proper "photoshoot" anyway

No shit.

on tha run mother licker!
use a grog/oink mix and you will get the best results ever. for a marker, the otr 0.70 (very similar to the flowpen) is my favourite marker ever.

sounds lovely, grog is good but i like oink because it has much nicer drips

i like the mix of oink and stealth, pricey but not coming off easy at all

No shit.

so why even bring it up?

I found it comically bad. You obviously don't. That's fine.

NF, you need to take everything that has been said with a pinch of salt, if someone actually insulted you, laugh at their pathetic attempt to insult you, rather than rising up to you (of which no one here is insulting you, just having a bits of fun that is the LFGSS).

Yeah i know man, but i am chill for a change!

i just make the bad mistake of coming on here to kill time while I'm not in the best of moods, so i seem like a right dick head i bet

if people here really know me they would know I'm just a laid back chilled guy whos a bit to obsessed with bikes

Finish installing Honjo mudguard, piss easy apart from drilling a hole on the rear for the brake bridge.

Now I'm a little worried about the clearance for the 26x2.0 Schwalbe Extreme tyres with those 50mm Honjo...

Maybe 2.0 tyres on a touring bike is somewhat excessive?

Not if the surface demand it.

And the smallest the Marathon Extreme come in is 2.0

Will have to look at the Marathon Plus Tour to see if it's idea for South America (come in 1.75).

If you're going back country touring with 26" rims, you should probably make provision to fit a cheap and nasty MTB tyre in case of emergency, since that's want you're likely to be able to find anywhere. In that case, your clearances should allow for knobbly 26x2.0 at least. It's no good having a set up which only works with the kind of tyres you can only get in a well stocked European boutique.

Not if the surface demand it.

And the smallest the Marathon Extreme come in is 2.0

Will have to look at the Marathon Plus Tour to see if it's idea for South America (come in 1.75).

If on those planks, you could ride that on skinny racing tyres. I was thinking 1.75 though.

tester makes a great point about mudguard clearance too. Are you packing spares?

don't know if it helps but i know some dirt jump tires go down to like 1.8 and they fold up tiny, almost the size of a inner tube box

2 extra tyres, spokes, chain, shift/brake cable + housing, brake pads (green koolstop), grease, frame bolts, electric tape, inner tube aaand zip tie.

note - I only listed the spare part required to carry.

Duct tape and zip ties. The answer to all your worries

I know, that what used to make a makeshift trailer.

again probably useless info, but they fold up rather small...

Excuse the use of a bar end shifter on the downtube but couldn't wait

looks neat. What is the frame?

Well it looks more colourful at least.

http://artclubblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/86fad446-c7a9-442e-9347-0c2d06f8060c_o.jpg

Carravgio?

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More space to carry:

Won't anyone think of Sarf American Zombies!?

Carravgio?

Caravaggio

Could never be.
Caravaggio only painted human decay, normally associated with religion.

not as fancy as every one elses stuff but ...

Don't matter a jot. Leave the willy swinging to the fucking melt bags with their inferiority complexes and enjoy** *your new*** parts/bike/ride.

Not sure what color risers to put on my new pub bike project*...

*once I've decided on which frame

Black

a more mauve-y shade of pinky russet

picked up an old bike last week, and began building my first ever fixie! fundamentally its a fixie, just enough so i could get to grips with riding fixed. but still needs work, here is my Raleigh The Winner in its current state...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnymeatsix/5597192553/