Current Projects chat and miscellany

75s. End of.

^are you sure you don't mean messengers?
#ncjfail

Cant decide which track cranks to go for on my Gitane, must be square taper compatible

Spidel or Stronglight.Mavic if not too recent...

^^ I'm sure I meant 75s. Thanks.

Getting cold feet about spending £500+ on a the new Brother Reynolds 725 track frame.

really struggling to find a 80/90's frame for less and in my size and everything

humphhh

^go custom with Steve Goff, £460 incl headset and p&p, get exactly what you want! See 'shiny bits' in CP.

Finally got round to photographing my recent beater project on the way into work...

Steve Goff is very good, he's pretty much the perfect value with the lowest 525 frame for £350, but wouldn't recommend it (tubing that is).

Look at other Forumeanger's bike;

Like the reflective tape. Was goin to do something similar on my concor.

Cheers, the original Kashimax label had peeled off and it looks a bit more "finished" as well as being a minor safety feature!

These are free to the first person to get to my house (SE23) to pick them up:

Bump- going in the bin at the close of play today unless someone wants them.

Does apollo not want them for his LCEF free build?

A Langer reunited with it's ugleh saddle... Almost poetic.

If it wasn't for the need of collect, I would've liked said saddle for the Mrs' birthday build, doubt you can be bothered with the hassle of posting though.

Correct. I'm so lazy that I'm currently plastering whilst wearing my slippers.

You disgust me.

And you haven't seen the slippers yet.

I did the Hard Day in January with my saddle at a jaunty angle like that after a too-hasty seatpost changeover the night before. Just looking at Ed's saddle is making my little ones head back inside for shelter again.

I suffer a long term injury to the balls after riding a Manc track rental bike with a jaunty saddle angle, don't know how others manage. A little lean is ok, but the scoblemeisters would be extremely painful for me.

Have either of you used a brooks for rides of any distance? Would be interesting to hear if you found it fine when the saddle is parallel to the ground.

After using mine for a couple of hundred km i found that by tilting it back a bit, I stopped slipping forward on the saddle the whole time (which obviously puts stress on your hands when you have to push yoursef back on the saddle) I've yet to find the perfect balance myself but tilted back is definitely better than parallel with a brook IMO

the nose tilted up is certainly not as bad on the balls as you think, never had any pain, but you do feel the difference in position sure.

^go custom with Steve Goff, £460 incl headset and p&p, get exactly what you want! See 'shiny bits' in CP.

this guy? looks good.
http://www.steve-goff-frames.co.uk/index.shtml

Steve Goff is very good, he's pretty much the perfect value with the lowest 525 frame for £350, but wouldn't recommend it (tubing that is).

Look at other Forumeanger's bike;

Thats nice! not far off what i want, id be happy with 531.

Now waiting for the paint to harden fully, so popped the frame in front of the radiator...

In 2 minds as to whether to clear coat or not, I find rattle can clear coat very difficult to get a good finish with.

Will be polishing up the BB area and the seat tube to clean up the overspray.

Finally got round to building up my new tool chest and transferring everything from my tool draw...

beats mine...

http://asda.scene7.com/is/image/Asda/?layer=0&size=298,298&layer=1&src=740042&size=298,298&resMode=sharp&op_usm=1.1,0.5,0,0&defaultimage=default_details_GM

and mine..

(floor, notice the actual toolboxes are empty)

I keep all my tools in bin liners

Dammit are you referring to these:

I'm sure I saw them in the background of a scales pic...