Custom Oak Cycles 650B French Randonneur Project.

confused, is it going disc?

I believe so, yes.
(as is my GH in the not too distant future, because wheelsize interchangeability fun is needed)

I also have an email chain with Matt on converting my Talbot to disc.. 2015 trends.

2014 more like ;)

yeah yeah

Integrated rear light.

@Scilly.Suffolk that was a small shim designed to slot in there, it's part of a decaleur.

Because I already had a disc 650b (which is interchangable to 700c and 26"), the bosses on the Oaks were removed to fit centerpull bosses.

Paul Racer doesn't use centerpull bosses despite being a centerpull brakes.

http://www.lfgss.com/comments/11882937/

This is the main reason I try to do as much as possible my self....I trust no one as much as I trust me.
I'm the same with my vw bus.

If there is something I can't do, I always ask if I can stay and watch....this helps me learn how to do it, and makes them switch on a bit!

Understood! Cheers.

New centerpull mount brazed.

Very excited, like having a new bike again, this time a slightly richer grey like the MAPS Cycles rando.

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Hurry up, Ed! I think my frame might be next in line ;-)

what did you do with your paul racers?

Sell them probably.

What can you do on this that you can't do on the Elephant?

I look awesome riding it.

Is it powder or enamel?

You must look awesome on the elephant though

New brakes time.

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So basically these need the braze ons to be at different height than paul racers?

i think they're a different diameter post - these brakes are copies of MAFAC which used proprietary braze-ons, PAUL use ordinary canti bosses, just in a different place.

They look fugly, but in a cool fugly retro way. Do they work?

Paul use proprietary braze one that both of its own mount are actually a different diameter to each other (literally, the left side is bigger than the right).

Compass use standard centerpull mount, which will work with mafac, shimano, gran compe etc.

Sticking with black no that chrome is off the table?

If I have a job, chrome will be back on the table, but that's never gonna happen anytime soon (got all offer of part time/zero hours, but never full time), so I'm thinking a little lighter, like this, it would show the fillet braze better than the near black metallic.

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