Current Projects chat and miscellany

Swapped folder's BB for a GXP and fitted carbon crankset. Now need to swap the bolts for SS ones and wait for a 53T CNC chain guard to arrive from Taiwan.

Just kind of finished my (HHSB?) project.

Gonna do a few little changes after this, like replacing the seat post with a Thomson Elite, and replacing the saddle by something more up to date, might be a fizik arione or something like that.

Specs right now:

Frame & Fork:
Dolan Track Champion (61 cm) & Alpina Carbon fork

BB:
Sram GXP

Crankset:
Sram Omnium

Pedals, Clips & Straps
MKS Sylvan Track, MKS NJS Clips & MKS Fit Alpha

Rear Wheel:
Mack Hub to Kinlin XR-200

Front Wheel:
Novatec Hub to Kinlin XR-200

Stem:
Thomson X4

Handlebar:
Deda Pista

Seatpost:
Alpina (stock)

Saddle:
Selle Italia Turbo

tidy build

^ Thanks

I'm going to start the mammoth task of giving my Raleigh Royal its spring clean after its beating at the hands of the winter weather. Then once thats done it's time to treat it with a whole host of shiny new bits.

I don't think there's any toe overlap, not tried it with my cleats yet so there may be a bit.

The geometry is copied from the Condor carbon race frame (forget the name, but they have a doc on the internet somewhere with a helpful diagram of the angles / tube lengths). The rest of the tubes were put in place on RattleCAD until I got something I liked the look of.

To be honest (and don't get me wrong, I'm not attempting to make any grand claims of my skills here - some of the brazes are a bit messy close up) I was inspired by the way the English frames look.

Fair enough. It's rad as fuck either way - you built it yourself for God's sake!

Just replaced the pedals on my rat bike from some rusty flats with swarf for bearings to some much more tasteful quills with a fresh load of grease. It has sorted out the final niggling problem on that bike and now it rides like a dream. Best bike I've ever had!

I'll get a photo in the sunshine tomorrow.

There's going to be sunshine tomorrow? Cool

To save weight I just removed my cranks and BB all the places I go are down hill anyway.

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There's going to be sunshine tomorrow? Cool

Sorry I meant Monday, tomorrow's supposed to be a washout

http://www.lfgss.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=52843&stc=1&d=1335629211

To save weight I just removed my cranks and BB all the places I go are down hill anyway.

aero as fuck

aero as fuck

Yeah I am gonna get put just the cups back in from the bb so that air can move smoothly over the bb shell.

That Dolan is not a HHSB, it's just an average track bike. HHSB must as a bare minimum have stupid wheels and risers.

I'm getting ideas for the replacement of the Dasia

So how is this a HHSB then?

And this?

If you did the same with the pictures in the rat/franken thread you'd wonder why most of them are there.

But then again, these wheels are kind of ridiculous, since they weigh just over 1.3 kg. Don't know if that earns any HHSB points, but then again, wasn't really going for a HHSB, I just added that because it might have some slight HHSB characteristics.

Is the 8bar yours?

http://youtu.be/xLlRd9ZXPdw

If you mean me, no.
Do know a guy in Berlin personally that is involved in the 8Bar project.

http://youtu.be/xLlRd9ZXPdw

Naaaa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4VSdGzxSTw

That Dolan is not a HHSB, it's just an average track bike. HHSB must as a bare minimum have stupid wheels and risers.

track bike with street gearing is HHSB

track bike with street gearing is either HHSB or anti

ftfy

I have just bought this frame back for the third time,and built it up today I think this time I may change the fork and keep it.

Is that the same one you bought off me, Mark?