Roberts track

have you seen this post

Just thought I'd post a quick write up then..
So as everyone knows/realises/has heard Scherrit is a legend. Properly friendly, great chat and great coffee. His workshop/room is amazing and contains pretty much everything to build a bike with you can imagine. It's all boxed, shelved and lined up and looks like a room of hidden treasures!
As per his email (which I can forward to anyone interested) the day is split into different sections. Firstly he takes a very thorough history (I'm a medic and was pretty impressed) and then a full skeletal exam taking into account some very specific points and movements. He then measures up the bike on the rollers and gets you on it to warm up (with more coffee...). Feet are next and he spent a long time sorting them out even though mine were pretty much normal as he put it. Some insoles in both and a wedge in the left, slight adjustment of the cleats and voila, the difference was and is unbelievable. Much less movement in the actual shoe and it certainly feels like I'm getting the power down much better.
My main issue was sliding forward on the saddle no matter on the type, position, seatpost, stem etc. Unfortunately this is one area which left him stumped. He adjusted everything to my ideal measurements but unfortunately the problem persists. The saddle we changed to an SMP Dynamic which did improve things but it's still not ideal. I really hate to say it but the bike never felt right from the start and so far, even though it's improved, it's still not right. It rides amazing in all fairness but my position on it just never st correct.. Scherrit was really surprised and quite unsettled that Roberts didn't put me onto a bike jig thingy as purely measuring the body doesn't provide enough info. I did wonder about this at the time aswell.. Hence overall I could say I'm kinda unhappy about the fact that things aren't fitting but Scherrit will have me back for free sessions as and when needed and we'll see if we get to the bottom of this. Overall though I thought I'd be able to get on a custom frame and ride it without problems but this was not to be..
Scherrit, on the other hand, is an absolute legend and whilst not cheap he does his job amazingly well and I would certainly recommend him..

Ha, yes I literally just read that. Was going to respond but didn't have a lot to say other than the obvious. Wrong colour, too... the muppets!

Not so cool.

Picked up the pedals from VBC this afternoon.
I'm still missing the nuts n bolts to attach the toe clips, and at some point I'd like to get hold of some NOS dust caps to finish them off...
In the meantime, I'm having a lot of trouble getting these double-thickness Cinelli straps through the tiny slots in the pedals.
I guess it's easier if you have regular thickness straps.

Is there a trick I'm missing?

Just realised no one's going to see my question^ on the new page... answers on a postcard, please.

Oh, and let me know if you have any fixings / dust caps going.

^Pliers and muscles! Ps: was it your own good self who was offering to recon head badges, I have a Gios one which will need doing?

^ had a similar problem with MKS leather straps through pedals recently, pliers + soaking the leather + brooks proofide along the edges + alot of swearing = win

cheers both, found pr's thread earlier and took lots of notes... will give it another go after work. So close to finishing this project... yet still so far!

Managed to get the straps through in the end, thanks to the advice on PR's excellent thread, then stole the fixings from an old set of clips in the parts bin, so:

I finally now have pedals with clips, straps, buttons and fixings all in place, and all joined together on the end the cranks where they belong. That felt like a mission.... One day I'll find cleaner looking dust caps, but for now this bike is fucking DONE!!!!

I'll do some proper photos later in the week when I have time to take it somewhere scenic and make it look pretty.

My bathroom is just about the least pretty place on earth at the moment, but here are some decent-ish shots of the finished build:

Two finished projects in one week feels good!

perfect!!!

stunning

The attention to detail is amazing, go to porn Roberts, you're gorgeous.

Immaculate build!

oh yes... thats magic

ooooh, er. lovely. now sell it to me

Picture 5

Superb, now do the right thing and get it dirty!

awesome

wow...

Saw this last week and it's even nicer than the pics. Looking forward to seeing it doing laps of HHV.

Thanks all...

@ PharoahSanders; I just did my HH induction, (which I can highly recommend to anyone thinking of giving it a go), so a couple more basic sessions on the hire bikes and I'll feel better about turning up with a grands worth of redundant technology...
See you there, I hope!

I imagine the current saddle to bar drop might be a little steep for me in real life, so I'll use a different set-up when I actually take this with me. I have some criteriums and an A1 in the parts box, so now I just need to find some more white Benotto... or maybe something that actually works as grip tape.

Anyway, not long now til this sees some use...

I need a flying c unicanitor. It looks lovely on there!

Can't wait to see that down at the track. Great build!

I imagine the current saddle to bar drop might be a little steep for me in real life, so I'll use a different set-up when I actually take this with me. I have some criteriums and an 1A in the parts box

So, my 1A is a touch short at 90mm... does anyone have a 100mm version knocking around? (26.4, i think)

So, when are you selling this to me? :)

I wouldn't hold your breath...