Current Projects chat and miscellany

Have you still got the Paris-Roubaix tyres Ed?

Yep.

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Ed whats your plan for the a719 wheels you bought for the dale?

Ed, Scotch Broth or Mulligatawny? Bewildering soup choice.

Ed whats your plan for the a719 wheels you bought for the dale?

None, downsiding everything.

Are you selling them? Type of wheelset im looking at for my Alan

Ah I didn't have the wheels yet, was planning to.

any household trick to keep the chainring bolts from spinning when unscrewed? I think i've used the ones that are too short and I cant grab hold of the two rivets on the back with anything I can think of in my house :(

£50 for a front brake (not including the lever) and it has barely any power at all, wouldn't trust my life with it, that's for sure. I guess i need new pads.

I got 2 charity rides coming up so i need it on for obvious reasons.

I put one of these on a bike the other day, and I can't tell a difference between it and a modern tiagra front brake I have on another bike. Provided its setup ok, I'd blame the pads, I used swissstop greens.

Can't get my head around this. Looks like it is pushing the outer rather than pulling the inner. Really looks wrong. Must have something to do with the bit of cable between both parts of caliper? Or maybe the Budweiser Budvar is screwing with me?

£50 for a front brake (not including the lever) and it has barely any power at all, wouldn't trust my life with it, that's for sure. I guess i need new pads.

I got 2 charity rides coming up so i need it on for obvious reasons.

any household trick to keep the chainring bolts from spinning when unscrewed? I think i've used the ones that are too short and I cant grab hold of the two rivets on the back with anything I can think of in my house :(

I've heard that a 20p coin can help, although it didn't fit my chainring bolts when I tried.

See you later:

Hello:

why get rid of the first one?

Both look very different.

Hello JB

Jake y u so mad

JB be hittin the crack pipe again from the looks of things. Or possibly in awe of the radness.

You keeping the old one, Tom?

Can't get my head around this. Looks like it is pushing the outer rather than pulling the inner. Really looks wrong?

That's exactly what it's doing. They're called cross-top levers, and they can share a cable with aero drop levers - a better modern alternative to safety levers.

Can't get my head around this. Looks like it is pushing the outer rather than pulling the inner.

It is, but it doesn't matter as long as the outer is free to flex to accommodate the movement of its anchor point. In fact, the outer casing anchor point on side pull calipers always moves too, you just haven't ever given that end of the cable as much thought :-)

why get rid of the first one?

You keeping the old one, Tom?

I am keeping the old one, I love it. Rode it almost every day over winter, and really enjoyed it. It's pretty beat up though, and I don't like the forks, and the 1" steerer means it's hard to find good replacements.

Setting it up for track and keeping it down south meant I didn't have a fixed bike in the house at all.

Track Champ was a bargain, an upgrade, and is slightly shorter in the top tube, which will stop me looking like this (not a T-rex):

Track Champ was a bargain, an upgrade, and is slightly shorter in the top tube, which will stop me looking like this (not a T-rex)

Hmm.

any household trick to keep the chainring bolts from spinning when unscrewed? I think i've used the ones that are too short and I cant grab hold of the two rivets on the back with anything I can think of in my house :(

Remove the standard bolts anyway you can, then throw them straight in the bin and get these:

TruVativ Steel Chainring Bolt Set: Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Outdoors

^^The setup pictured above, with deep drops, was perfectly manageable but perhaps a little long.

59.5cm effective TT, 110mm stem, 173mm drop.