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dont remove any more because the front will start to rub.

Just showing that it is somewhat proportional to the front, that is all.

Is this going to kill me riding street?

Yes. Ignore the rear, it doesn't matter and anyway the back of the frame isn't going to flex enough to make it rub, but when the fork flexes and the front tyre hits the down tube, it stops you like a stick through the spokes.

Just showing that it is somewhat proportional to the front, that is all.

it is with regret that I have to say, that you don't live up to your name unfortunately.

i got the brompton which means im gonna have to take everything from the old road bike and put it on the new one.

or do as JB is doing, get current (10 speed) Force at bargain price; Force looks boss.

where do i get force at bargain price?

Here or Bike Radar.

strange white secretion from my nipples (fnar)

any ideas? weird how it occurs every 4 spokes - probably random?

eww gross

Interesting, and gives me a slightly better idea of what I'm looking at but I've still no idea how to tell what I've got and whether they'll work with the Rotor3d+ crank.

MegaExo is an external-bearing BB system (see the 24mm section of history ^^^) for BSA-68mm shells.

Thanks dudes, but by the looks of prices of levers, and possible complications, may leave this one for a while and stick with friction.

you can get indexed downtube shifters..

or indexed bra-end shifter

bra-end shifter

Rik this has got out of hand :-)
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or indexed bra-end shifter

quoted for posterity, unfiortunately couldnt find the picture of the lazer titted lady

^^ that's where the picture comes from.
It's a great thread though and the humour is genius... read pg2 with the Carla Bruni Vinyl and forks a l'Epoque...
After all those years of getting stick for my bra-ends on the De Rosa It felt like coming home

I can't talk, I've just installed a bra-end on my Argos basse-professionelle...

They're a great solution. Shimano Bra-end en mode de frottement* works for 10speed or 9spd campag!

(*snigger)

Rik this has got out of hand :-)
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But it ended nicely...

Normally yes, and any freshly exposed aluminium should just re-form its protective layer then stop corroding, but that clearly isn't happening here. My guess is there's a galvanic cell formed there when it's wet and the aluminium is acting as a sacrificial anode to protect the more noble brass nipples and steel spokes.

(The classic example of this is when people try to fix stainless steel sheeting with aluminium pot-rivets - when exposed to weather the large area of less electronegative steel makes the small rivets rapidly corrode away. But in your case the small area of nipples and spoke versus the large area of rim should be working in your favour, only the rim's protective anodisation is too good - it's focused the corrosion to just where the nipples have damaged it.)

I bow to your electrochemical wizardry, but why has it happened to only these eyelets? I refer back to my initial theory, of the eyelet's bulging under spoke tension. I think they should be cleaned up and examined.

looks like shit

Benotto tape(?) looks pretty sweet.

looks like shit

ha lol

New bars and better pics/excuse to show off my bike.

Feels much better with the bullhorns, don't feel so cramped now.

It's probably cramped because you got an online seatpost putting it very close to the bottom bracket.

Very nice, you gone brakeless now?

couldnt find the picture of the lazer titted lady

Probably because you can't spell laser