Current Projects chat and miscellany

Rides like a stripped-out Mini Cooper: fast and frisky...

This looks great BTW.

^^ ...and finish the cables.

http://www.marktplaats.nl/a/fietsen-en-brommers/fietsen-racefietsen/m821828055-opvallende-concorde-57cm.html?c=be2da871b0d84f75c3056cc6db858f31&previousPage=lr

Too bad it's way too small:(

But my size exactly! Hnnng.... must. not....

Finally finished my mountain bike.

IMG_0963 by shredthe gnar, on Flickr

In current project news, now the LOOK is gone, the freshly rubbed down and spruced up Columbus Italian crit beastie has been rebuilt, and I have some bits and changes on the way to tart it up and get it looking thoroughly cohesive.

http://www.marktplaats.nl/a/fietsen-en-brommers/fietsen-racefietsen/m821828055-opvallende-concorde-57cm.html?c=be2da871b0d84f75c3056cc6db858f31&previousPage=lr

Too bad it's way too small:(

Wouldn't be surprised if those were from the same builder, Concorde has always been a mysterie brand.

Finally finished my mountain bike.

IMG_0963 by shredthe gnar, on Flickr

Fuck yeah Luke that thing is siiiiick!

I got a Tokpeak CO2bra co2 pump around November last year to use with my tubless tyres. Used it once to install the tyres, never had to use it again as I haven't had a puncture on them. Went to put new sealant in the tyres today and the bloody pump has died, it seems the seal inside has broken or something. All it has done is sat in my jersey pocket not being used. Annoying.

Yea cheers bro, really fast too! Need to get the cross bike off road!

done on a student budget, it is a bit mismatched but I tried to balance it out as much as possible... thanks go to tester for an explanation on Novatech Hubs conversion, über_grüber for sending BB axles twice, sirbikealot for sending the new BB expressly and Philljimpot for the Thomson seatposts.

^I'm sorry but that definitely needs different cranks, these are awful. Silver Omniums orso. Otherwise it's superb!

^ hater

done on a student budget

Sell Starfish, buy different cranks?

It's the chainring, not the cranks

Could be indeed! What BCD are Mavics?

Starfish cranks are bang on trend for MY2015 - chainring bolts threaded into the back of the spider and spider arms extending to add lateral support.

Well, I had the crankset from before, failed 3 times to match it with a BB and paid 40 euro for a matching 130 chainring. I might go for some newer generation DA road cranks cause they seem to pop for decent prices with used road chainrings.. anyway, two more projects to go, so this will stay as it is for moment (+hacked bottle cages and saddle roll).

Why Campagnolo...why!?

For the love of 5 spokes!

What this x ring? weeps

spent the afternoon building this because my other roadbike is out of acyion due to being parted out and this has been lingering on for long.

was actually planning on doing rad paintjob on this but decided before ild put the effort in to first try to build it. hence half polish.. actually wanted to keep it shiney alu but due to a couple of filler spots i need to paint it partially.

hence it now looking like a ghetto roadbike, half polsihed, halfway sanded fork.

parts are mainly veloce. neutron front, fulcrum5 back.
the seatclamp actually gave up on me so i had to resort to longer bolt and nut to do the clamping. ghetto++.

now left to do is index the gears and install the computer and off we can go!

the build is 8.3kg on my bathroom scales btw. ((I+bike)-I) scientific method.

with all the veloce and fsa bars and fulcrum back i reckon thats not too bad.
really looking fwd to ride this!

are yours and mine possibly same frames btw? columbus airplane..? or ita threads?
mine has funky headset though, an old columbus standard, 44mm headtube iirc. had to get a special fsa jobby because they were the only ones making them still.

turned out to be a good coincidence, because the forks i bought were originally for the same system. its a time fork, formerly branded gazelle, with a composite steere with and internal cross which stiffens up the steerer. but this makes it impossible to use normal expanders hence the use ring go starr. shouldve gotten it in black though

Well, I had the crankset from before, failed 3 times to match it with a BB and paid 40 euro for a matching 130 chainring. I might go for some newer generation DA road cranks cause they seem to pop for decent prices with used road chainrings.. anyway, two more projects to go, so this will stay as it is for moment (+hacked bottle cages and saddle roll).

what bb did you get eventually ?

dthanks go to tester for an explanation on Novatech Hubs conversion

Is there a link to the explanation please?

It is definitely ISO, what I got right from the start, first buy was campa record 115 mm which worked quite fine with original starfish chainring spacers and dished rear wheel on a conversion. According to an extensive discussion on a google group for a single chainring use these need 110 mm/ 111 mm axle (unfortunately the axle provided from über_grüber wasn't a fit for the older record cups) so I went for a sealed Campa centaur 111mm from sirbikealot - this works fine with starfish spacers, which makes me think this lenght of the axle is a perfect match for a 46mm chainline mavic hubs but not for the 42mm chainline. Conclusion is IMHO opinion that you need a 107mm symmetrical ISO BB for a perfect chainline (this applies if you have same generation starfish cranks I guess).