On One Pompino owners...

Silly question: would it be ridiculously difficult and expensive to cut off the existing head tube and braze on a larger diameter one that would take a tapered steerer fork?

I'm thinking of the Kaffenback frame with the fork from my Boardman, in XS, transferring all the parts from the Mrs Charge Filter Apex onto it.

Tapered headtubes look shit on skinny steel tubes. They belong on hydroformed alu/ti and carbon frames.

Surely itd be cheaper to buy a new fork

Tapered headtubes look shit on skinny steel tubes. They belong on hydroformed alu/ti and carbon frames.

It's big, for sure, I think it looks ok though:

Silly question:

I've often wondered this.

The thing is ultimately what's the point? Yes carbon forks are better. Bu how much better? Just go for the standard forks.

Also seeing the pompetamine forks on a black pomp in real life I think they look good.

Mainly, I've got tthe carbon ones, and I reckon they'd be lighter than steel ones.

It's mainly idle speculation mind you.

Just do it.

I think it would look rad.

Reason enough?

I've also wondered if there's enough head tube on the bottom to shave it down and then add an extension that's wide enough to hold the bearings on a tapered fork.

That's mainly come about from day dreaming about making a HHSB with a Dawes kingpin using a cut down 1" 24" lo pro fork I saw someone make.

this being the aim...

What size if your pomp? Might have a set of pompetamine forks going spare. Avid has a BB7 road version which has a shorter pull compared to the regular BB7s calipers.

The other alternative is to get some of Tektro's RL520 levers, these are long pull drop levers which allows you to use regular V brakes and BB7s.

Thaks for the lever suggestions Cov. My pomp is a small.

I'd be interested in that Kinesis fork. Does it have a loooooooooong steerer though?

To be fair doppelkorn its probably quite short. I can measure it.

It's big, for sure, I think it looks ok though

Everything looks good with Ryan holding it.

To be fair doppelkorn its probably quite short. I can measure it.

I basically need it uncut so if it's smaller than that it'll be too small. Cheers though.

These last two exchanges should not be taken out of context.

Couple of tweaks made today, feels good! Added carbon forks against all the doctor's* orders...

*tester's

How tall are you?

8foot10 by the look of it

With one foot arms?

I am 6'4", but with an inseam of about 37.5". I'm aaaaaall leg!

That's an XL frame too :(

sheesh

Does the seat post go far down enough into the seat tube?

thankfully it does, yep!

Welcome to the club

My pompetamine is beginning to irritate me, its necessary to have the wheel quite far back because of the tyre and the mudguard, which meant I had to file the shoulder of the brake caliper to get it far back enough (I.e. both filed and slammed against the seat stay). Now the chain has a month's wear on it and is baggy, and the alfine axle also slips which doesn't help, rear disc has been constantly rubbing

Thinking about getting a vertical dropout frame and a tensioner, tired of messing about with it. Final things to try are putting a half link in (then it might rub the guard) or put a 180mm disc on and have the caliper further forward, don't think there is 20mm of forward movement on it though. Anyone have any other ideas?

Skinnier rear tyre would help. What size are you running? A half link chain woul allow you to fine tune the wheel position more, chain tugs will stop the axle slipping.

180mm disc needs 10mm extra, not 20 (diameter versus radius blabla...)