Current Projects chat and miscellany

You don't want to be doing that. You'll end up dying a slow and painful death

and now for chainring bolts?!?

This one
http://www.parker-international.co.uk/1787/Cyclus-Chainring-bolt-tool.html

is better than the cheaper ones like this
Wiggle | BBB BTL-32L BoldGrip Chainring Bolt Tool Workshop Tools

You don't want to be doing that. You'll end up dying a slow and painful death

And then you get AIDS.

Must spread rep...

^^^Cheers mccd

Is it worth looking to get a hidden bolt seeing as i'm only running one chainring on the inside?
If i screwed on a hidden bolt without another chainring is it likely to just bend it towards the crank arm?

If you have cranks with a hidden 5th bolt and only use the inner ring, you need a spacer of the same thickness as the outer ring to pad things out. Are they Campag? I have plenty of spare Campag 5th bolts

Yeah campag chorus, here's my setup apologies for the shit quality.
If that's the case I would definitely appreciate taking one off your hands.

Aren't chainrings 2.5mm thick with a 5mm difference c/c?

my vern calipers aren't great but the teeth measure about 3mm and the chainring even more

They vary, the spacer between the rings is 2.6mm but the centreline of the teeth isn't necessarily on the centreline plane of the ring mounting section, as some Campag rings are dished.Your track ring is obviously going to be thicker than 10s road rings, but that doesn't matter for this purpose. You'll need something like 5-6mm of spacer sandwiched between the inner ring and the back of the crank, and you want it to be pretty close to right; Campag actually supply shims just 0.08mm thick to dial things in to avoid bending the rings.

Ahh that make sense (track ring thicker than 10speed etc)
just had a quick measure and looks about 7.5mm between the two

Just when you think your build is finished, something else comes along and gives you more work! I guess this is how i usually learn more about bikes, e.g. chainring tool haha

On a cheap frame last night;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/320857673342?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_500wt_1282
Looking to build a light tourer, for a long and fast trip, and building it piece by piece to make sure it is perfect. Wish me luck boys...

Looks nice that, keep us updated!

New addition to the family today, and it's not yellow:

It's a stayer, you can tell because the forks are backward...

ha

Same as I had on my Pro Winner.

Those were the days...

not any more!

I'm jealous.

if i ever get rid of it you got dibs

[but don't hold your breath]

Finally finished apologies for shit phone pic
Putting a front brake on soon and probably take the rim stickers off at some point.
I know it's a Holdsworth and should probably have gears but its fixed for now. Look into a groupset at some point

obligatory foot retention comment.

^Yeah yeah looking into it. It's not quite there yet

New addition to the family today, and it's not yellow:

sell me the webster now then? :)

Sorry, Webster is gone now.

Build up Brooklyn quickly before work, damn it's fun! Not sure it will stay like this, at least for now it will.

damn that was fast, does look fun!