Current Projects chat and miscellany

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Ah yeah, that's what I'd have been after if I'd known it existed. Top tip!

oops.. pic... the new stem is on too which i love but to go on still; bar tape of course, chainring bolts (ti), rear inner tube + rim tape, challenge crit tyres, brake cable.. boom.

photo.JPG by monomaniac(tom), on Flickr

fucking lust.
Everything bar the forks do it for me :p
What frame is it or is ur homemade?

Thanks for the comments on my gazelle :) Bars are 3T forma SL bars.
And Malaysian; a rolls will come soon, I only had a red and white one left. First I need to save up some more, I'm just a kid :P
I also need some longer gear cables, but these came with the shifters, which were mounted to this handlebar, which I could get cheap.

And Malaysian, can you explain me exactly what you mean with the brakes? Cause I didn't understand due of my English.

This should be down

it allows you to flip it up and widen the caliper when you need to remove your wheel, repair a puncture.

^^It's a ^rawed-up MKM TT Ultimate: http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/MKM/MKM_main.htm

why not just get a custom alloy one made

Any suggestions that are cheaper than FibreLyte? Highpath have retired, which would have been my first choice.

Looks like TA make somethng which could be hacked into shape, so thanks for making me think!

Thx, will fix that!

Train journey from hell on Friday, but at least I managed to meet up with Charan in London and pick up the Spinergy 650c front wheel I needed.
So now the nearly finished project lo-pro looks like this.

Superb build, but sadle angle?

nice work tom, looks like you managed without the pursuit bars I talked you out of buying from me earlier !

Any suggestions

I don't know about cheaper but stronger in Al. Here's just a couple of ideas off the top of my head, sure Google will throw up more :

GoldTec / BETD ?

http://www.mountainbikecomponents.co.uk/items.asp?CategoryID=32&Name=Goldtec+1%2F8th+Track+and+Single+Speed+Chainrings

Mattias Hellöre ? Builds prototype parts in Sweden and has a fine reputation.

http://hellore.se/experimentalprototype/

Might not be to everyone's taste - not sure it's even to mine at the moment - but I made a couple of changes to my Raleigh this afternoon.

After last week's brokenhandlebargate I was using track bars and thinking about getting some new old-fashioned bars, but decided bullhorns might be more comfortable. Today I chopped and flopped the bars, and it is much better.

Minor niggles now are that the bar tape and the seat don't match as well as my old grips did, and that the new Goldfinger lever (cheers Plastic Pedals) is a different gold to the rest of the shiny bits.

It feels nice though

tommmmmmm. No disrespect but if there is one thing which gets my goat is when I see a brake lever saluting high into the air. It should be angled to follow the line of your arm. Apologies in advance if your wrist is permanently jutted up at 90 degrees and your lever is positioned so in order to compensate for this...

Yeah I think the whole bar needs tilting down a bit, and the brake lever more so.

Oh shit. Just seen this........but still.

GoldTec / BETD ?

I typed up the reason why I'm not using Goldtec on this one, and then edited it out; they only go up to 53, I need 54

Mattias Hellöre ? Builds prototype parts in Sweden and has a fine reputation.

I'm not in Sweden

I think TA + my local machinist may be both better and cheaper than FybreLyte

If you have a small undercarriage maybe you can ride with a flat saddle, but if I ride with a flat saddle no matter what I do (different saddle, different height etc) I still get numb nuts.

When you've been trying for a baby for nearly 4 years, suffered 2 miscarriages, a cancer scare, and now be moving on to IVF, believe me when you do anything to avoid numbness down there.
Riding with that kind of angle suits me.

Tester have you had any problems with TA chainrings? I found them to be off centre causing tight spots and also the tabs were too large to fit onto my DA and Sugino chainrings. I had to file a little from the inner edge of the bolt tab to make them fit.

RIP the TC, dismantling her this weekend, tempted to build up a fixeh temporarily but then I may as well just get a new frame for that.

Whats happened to the TC? Been after one for ages! Ace frames.

Tester have you had any problems with TA chainrings?

The 135mm pcd ones I have on my hacked UltraTorque cranks (Hirame and Pompetamine) seem fine, and I had 130mm pcd TA track rings for my TA and Stronglight cranks which were also as round as anything else I've used.

The 135mm pcd ones I have on my hacked UltraTorque cranks (Hirame and Pompetamine) seem fine, and I had 130mm pcd TA track rings for my TA and Stronglight cranks which were also as round as anything else I've used.

Strange. All the ones I had problems with were 144pcd. I'm now using Sugino or Blackspire, not had any problems with them.

tommmmmmm. No disrespect but if there is one thing which gets my goat is when I see a brake lever saluting high into the air. It should be angled to follow the line of your arm. Apologies in advance if your wrist is permanently jutted up at 90 degrees and your lever is positioned so in order to compensate for this...

I know, I know. I get disorientated when I'm working on a bike that's tilting forward on a stand. I took that picture before leaving the workshop, and realised the first time I used the brake that it wasn't right.

ooo.. I've got something similar coming your way soon.

Wall hanger bar angle >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

It's a little bit funny.. -.-

Train journey from hell on Friday, but at least I managed to meet up with Charan in London and pick up the Spinergy 650c front wheel I needed.
So now the nearly finished project lo-pro looks like this.

Jealous... :(