Current Projects chat and miscellany

If you can find a way to increase the individual's legs to compensate, by all mean go for it tester.

Perhaps I'll have to give up being subtle. Your proposition that small frames usually come with short stems because they have short head tubes is obvious bollocks. They usually have short stems because everything shrinks in proportion in order to keep the CG in roughly the same place relative to the wheelbase, so 45cm frame + 9cm stem is the same as 50cm frame + 10cm stem or 55cm frame and 11cm stem. There is no effect from lengthening the head tube on a normal fit, because those bigger bikes are fitted to people with longer legs, and they usually come with long top tubes too so the reach actually increases as seat tube increases, since only about ¼ of the top tube is behind the BB. That, by the way, is why you only need to add about ¼ of the increase in frame size to the stem to keep the fit triangle™ in proportion, because the other ¾ is provided by the section of the longer top tube which lies ahead of the BB

apc, I think your bike looks great! Fun and fast although perhaps in need of a brake, but that's none of my business of course. Blah, blah, blah something theoretical about stems.

Perhaps I'll have to give up being subtle. Your proposition that small frames usually come with short stems because they have short head tubes is obvious bollocks. They usually have short stems because everything shrinks in proportion in order to keep the CG in roughly the same place relative to the wheelbase, so 45cm frame + 9cm stem is the same as 50cm frame + 10cm stem or 55cm frame and 11cm stem.

There we go, thats the point I wanted to get across.

apc, I think your bike looks great! Fun and fast although perhaps in need of a brake, but that's none of my business of course. Blah, blah, blah something theoretical about stems.

thanks! am pleased with it too.. might be all in my head but it seems much nippier than my other bike. I do want a brake but i dont think i will ride it much over winter anyway.

You could have bought a new bike by now the money you've spent!

and it would most definitely be better and a 5+ year old crack'n'fail

There we go, thats the point I wanted to get across.

dont think anyone else picked up on that

Sometimes Ed's idiosyncratic grammar is the enemy of comprehensibility :-)

and it would most definitely be better and a 5+ year old crack'n'fail

It's a 2007 I think, might be wrong on that though.

I really like this frame, and other than a SuperSix Evo there is nothing I'd really change it for.

Question time though. I wacked my stem and bars on to get a feel for reach. This frame is 53 tt and I intend on getting some swept back town bars like the velo orange Milan or Tourist.

I own a few permutations of swept bars and I'd recommend just buying a few cheapies (Wald, Zoom, and cetera) and trying them out. You can usually find them for a fiver of your monetary units. I'd also pick up a Nitto Technomic (non-deluxe model; cheaper, taller, shinier) in your favourite flavour of reach that would allow a little fore and aft adjustment through verticality. Finally, I would suggest Ergon grips. They're designed more for flat bars, but they've worked very well for me on almost parallel handlebar set ups.

And you're doing a fantastic job on that frame.

It's a 2007 I think, might be wrong on that though.

I really like this frame, and other than a SuperSix Evo there is nothing I'd really change it for.

Storck Fascenario 0.6?

I admire those, but I don't desire them, if you see what I mean?

Not at all. It's a ridiculously porn-worthy nonsense of a bike.

Carbolift, strip, sand, carbolift, strip, sand, etc

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/---68c8q4hLw/TvL6RpnckQI/AAAAAAAABHU/b2rHo5a_ocQ/h301/2011%2B-%2B1

Heres my current project
Unknown but apparently '50's frame
Halo aerotrack rear wheel in purple with yellow shwalbe tyre
Cant remember the make but french front wheel with ultrego (SP?) front tyre
Shimano BB
Stronglight cranks
Gusset chopped down all in one fixie bars (inc stem)
1 Aaron ross grip 1 other unknown grip
generic alloy seat post with 60's NOS seat
Generic mtb pedals
1/8th yellow chain fitted last night

Heres my current project

The project element of it being, presumably, to change it into something nice before anybody sees it in the wild and posts it in anti porn?

ha ha yea, i just slammed a load of parts together as you can see from the parts list to get it rideable...

a longer chain would be advisable.

if you look in the last pic (although saying that you cant really see it) i have recified that issue

a longer chain would be advisable.

That or health insurance

rideable...

O rly?

What seat post are you using jimmy p it looks like you might be running it higher than the safe point

Also chuck some mud guards on to fill those gaps (they also stop mud and wet)

also foot retention

threadtitlechange?

Are you riding it brakeless? I ask because those cranks aren't a good idea to skid with....

Note: this is a budget, lightweight chainset and not for hardcore (skid stops etc!) use.