Current Projects chat and miscellany

yes yes yes yes. Perfect.

Good page!

What's that seatpost Gaston? I need it.

What's that seatpost Gaston? I need it.

Campagnolo chorus/record Ti?

If, as I suspect, it's Campag Chorus Ti, there's one for sale here for only $450

Or record for a bit more

Gaston's seems like a record, silly prices for a seatpost even if nos, sometimes they come out 2nd hand for much less, keep an eye!

There's a used Chorus on ebay at the moment currently attracting bids of £50+ with just over a day to go.

That's fucking lovely!

Due to fucked up proportions (long torso/arms to relatively short legs), this bike actually fits me pretty well.

Curious. The set up looks like it is compensating for the frame being a bit too tall and too long for the rider. But, interweb bike fit, meh.

Olmo Giro. Have the remaining Tri Colour parts ready just needs a respray and then on to the rebuild.

^why respray? paint chips add character

It's pretty rusty, I was hoping to catch it before it got worse

Built this today.

Thanks to London Bike Kitchen for showing me how to press a PF bottom bracket and lending me their hacksaw. Very helpful.

Phwoar

^^ nice job!

I'd like to get as big tyres as possible on my roadie, would anyone like to hazard a guess if I could get anything larger than 28's in there? For reference there's 23's in there now and I have had 25's with guards in before.

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Good catch, the 2015 Volare is ugly as fuck.

Oh really? I've not yet seen it - yeah really happy with it.... Well, the way it looks. I've not ridden it yet.

I have, almost all of them are ugly.

The hybrid (entitled Smithfield) is nice, basically a flat bar tour de fer.

The nice thing about the newer Volare is that they all come with braze on for electronic.

JB in nice looking bike shock ;)

Well apart from the 'dale, seriously though, nice work the tires colour gets disguised with the paint scheme too, which is only a positive

What's that seatpost Gaston? I need it.

Booom

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Just finished a town/path singlespeed for my friend Ralfh who helps me out with frame spraypainting and metal work. After lacing the wheels and screwing on the freewheel I found out this is a rather silly wide item by Sturmey Archer

Threw the chainline off by some way but I solved it with a cheapo* but much slimmer alternative, the chain is nice & straight now

The Batavus frameset he painted (before Ridley brought out the team Lotto TdF bikes, coincidentally...) has a relaxed geometry with lots of clearance, now nicely filled up by the Kojak 35ers. they look sturdy and the ride is pretty comfy! I think I'll use those on a couple more bikes.

Saddle angle may have to be adjusted, but I'm pretty happy with the result

• does the job but proves noisy at times while just pedalling forward... can anyone recommend a cheap, well made and durable single speed freewheel?
  

Built this today.

Thanks to London Bike Kitchen for showing me how to press a PF bottom bracket and lending me their hacksaw. Very helpful.

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^^ NOS Suntour BMX freewheels are great.