Current Projects chat and miscellany

Nick! hope you're happy with the bike mate, good to meet you as well. your collection now looks most excellent, if not a little too perfect!

Had a properly stuck seatpost for ages, so:

Fast forward a few days till now:

VICTORY

finally, i look forward to seeing that bike built yup again

My new project:

Mega rep to Dae and TM for allowing this to happen:

That's track, lo-pro* and road frames in 531, 653 and 753. I'm done.

Don't think I've seen the track, but yeah, I was always blown away with the quality of my Argos track. Great builders, amazing painters. You done good.

Think I saw an Argos tourer/audax in our size on retrobike with full campag 30 speed for like £400 if you need that to perfect the collection...

Getting closer to finishing, the bars/stem length I can not get quite right

http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1383&pictureid=16113

http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1383&pictureid=16111

I reckon Nitto/Velo orange noodles or Randos? Would allow a little more stem too...

32c Paselas and a link out of the chain too.

holy shit! Were the forks pre-drilled for brake?

yeah pre-drilled, just come unbonded (not sure on the bonding method used...) sorry for reccomending you them!

Had a properly stuck seatpost for ages, so:

Fast forward a few days till now:

VICTORY

Brutal! What's next for Satan?

What taper does the french TA Specialiste pista cranks take? ISO?

I installed some TA specialities road/touring cranks and they used ISO.

Currently hoarding parts to build up this forum-bought modern steel - entirely surplus to requirements and wholly impractical for winter, but I can't wait!

I installed some TA specialities road/touring cranks and they used ISO.

Checked VB and it's ISO.

I'm in the process of re-glueing tubs to my race wheels. What is the best thing to remove small glue drips from the brake tracks? Will white spirit be ok or might it damage the carbon/paint?

Brutal! What's next for Satan?

black parts, a little DA... unfortunately similar to Eamesy's Roberts actually
picking up the last pieces these evening so unless I hit any snags it should be done tomorrow morning

I'm in the process of re-glueing tubs to my race wheels. What is the best thing to remove small glue drips from the brake tracks? Will white spirit be ok or might it damage the carbon/paint?

Lolly stick and a bit of effort?

how did you get glue drips on the brake tracks?

how did you get glue drips on the brake tracks?

Incompetence, probably.

Got this off shinkuu last week and i've been having a lot of fun on it. Temp front tyre on atm

^ looks like a ton of fun.

literally.

found some forks, (not drilled, pant is chipped)..... maybe paint them the same colour as the frame....or not....

and these bits. just need to track down a wheelset.

yeah good call on changing the colour. but, since they're cro-mo, maybe you could just strip it and clearcoat? this would look nice i'd imagine

they have "Cromor" on the label, same as Cro-mo? strip and clear coat could work well, i like that idea.....

they have "Cromor" on the label, same as Cro-mo? strip and clear coat could work well, i like that idea.....

Columbus Cromor

Built of cold-drawn, chrome-moly butted tubing, this set is for the more demanding riders who favour versatile, high-performance light frames, but can also be used for larger frames. Cr Mo Steel

ahhhh, something new is pushed into my brain box every day....

^ looks like a ton of fun.

looks like they're my grips!

looks like they're my grips!

oh yeah, about that.......

What taper does the french TA Specialiste pista cranks take? ISO?

Do you mean Spécialités TA Alize Piste?

Pista = Italian
Piste = French

Anyway, 110mm ISO. I haz Stronglight SBBA for sellz if you're looking for a good BB to go with them, I rate the Stronglight BB over the TA Axix because it has better bearings and is a true cartridge BB, rather than separate cups with cartridge bearings, so bearing alignment relies on the aluminium cartridge rather than the BB shell

Stronglight SBBA cartridge bottom bracket 110mm¹ ISO BSC 1.370 x 68, clean and free running but also rebuildable with standard 3903-2RS² bearings £30

¹Nominal size; due to the vagaries of Stronglight's measuring method it's actually 111mm overall

²£29.99 per pair for full complement version

All of which is not to say that you might not be better off buying two Shimano BB-UN55s, one 107mm and one 110mm for a total of £27.92, and then sell on the one which doesn't give the better chain line. I think the optimum JIS axle length for the TA cranks is going to lie somewhere between 107 and 110. Note that the link for 110mm is for the 73mm shell version, because that allows you to use a shim of less than 2.5mm under the drive side cup if you need to bring the chainline in a bit

"...found some forks, not drilled..."

Whatever you do, do not drill them!