Current Projects chat and miscellany

how wide are the bars? are you riding again?

^ loads of questions!
Interns, well, we got one electronics kid coming in from uni over summer.
Metalwork side, anyone wanting to do some interesting but unpaid work who have some metal working skills probably welcome. Got to come upto Cumbria though ;)

Steering is like a shopping trolley. Powered by a single engine, which drives a pair of hydrostatic drives, each drive is totally independent from the other. Linkages drive them between forwards and backwards, they have ridiculously fine control and we've used them on vehicles around the 1t mark without problem. With that motor, probably do 20-25mph, drives could take more, but frankly its more than quick enough.
Yeah its for offroad, only trouble with vehicles like this is there aren't many places you can use them legally, unless you own half of yorkshire lol

how wide are the bars? are you riding again?

Bars are pretty wide, like 58cm I think? Not riding no, it's doing my head in. Well, rode along the street. Might try a really gentle ride on Sunday if it isn't raining, just to test the water.

What are the forks on your mash?

Condor Pista... Had for the bargain price of £25. Sanded them down and recoated them though cos they had a few scratches.Didn't want to cut down the originals in case I want to run drops in the future.

new brakes, new headset, new pedals, new front wheel. will weigh it tomorrow.

slacking

very nice otherwise, i know that ^ wasn't what you where after, i like the red with the blue

the seller said the decals were removable, but they are clearcoated.

Already did - it's 1050 with STI* added later. That places it somewhere between the mid 80s.

*Now that we've seen the close up, it's clear that the STI levers are quite a recent addition, look like Sora ST-3300 but somebody familiar with low end Shimano will know for sure, or you could just look for the part number stamped on them somewhere.

Looks like the levers are Sora yeah, Too bad, thought it was fully 105.

shimano 2300 i think. 1 below sora

Just put a bike rack into my room as we lose the spare room soon....

(positions are temporary (as are the pedals on the road bike), will be trying to fit 3 bikes in if possible... probably wheels off- to placate the landlord)

I also finally got a desk.

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HHSB coming along nicely, just black tyres and silver chain to go

what has been seen, cannot be unseen

why rear brake?

why rear brake?

PM Edscoble, he will explain that for you.

negative HHSB points though

i quite like it. two bar end levers looks better than one imo

For sure, odd levers normally look strange, except trigger levers, but would they rattle if they weren't attached to cables?

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New seatpost and whees, next is some 36cm b123aa from sterobe to finish my upgrade of old faithful.

^ Love the paintjob on that!

I don't know how you sleep knowing that seatpost is on there though Dandy, dat some far drop to the bars too...

It's not as extreme as it looks in the pic. Will probly go down to the min insertion when I have sat on it properly..

Why no sleep? I only put it on two days ago..

Not sure if it's aero advantage outweighs it's fugly appearance.....

(:

I'm sure it does...

^ Love the paintjob on that!

It's definitely one of a kind ;)