Talbot Fixed Tourer

April fools?

Either way i'll wait till @coldharbour gets the surly lockring and we can go from there with a another solution if it doesn't work

How come the Phil don't work? They have a kind of offset flange innit.

Come on, we're waiting...

So am I... Matt promised it would be ready this weekend no matter what. Which is good as I'll be touring on it from Tuesday!

That epoxy might come in handy when my modified forks fall apart somewhere in Europe

577 Eiersalat Rezepte

byk m8

better photos by matt here https://instagram.com/talbot_frameworks/

Luvley.

Great pics on the Talbot Book of Face too.

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Yowsers!

fork looks amazing

Just seen this on FB. NUTS. Awesome bike.

cheers!

What's the chainline?

which one? ;)

Just a standard road crank, so inner should be 41 and outer 45ish

So the inner chainring position works with both of the sprockets on the dingle?

Hypothetically (i haven't measured it) but i'd be worried to go little sprocket to little chainring as it could potentially cause rubbing against the larger sprocket. Also the rocker dropouts/mudguards are unlikely to take up that much chain slack

Looking lovely @laner

That's the 2nd nicest Talbot I've seen this weekend ;-)

Very nice, bright but tastefully done.

So how do the different gears work, @laner? You change gears manually and just move the rocker dropouts to take up the slack?

If you set the two correct ratios then the chain length is exactly same.
e.g. 42x17 is the same chain length as 38x21 so you get a normal 66GI normal gear and a 48GI gear for hills.

I went for an even lower small ring of 34t so i have a even lower 42GI hill gear so yeah some tensioning with the rockers will have to happen.

Bike looks lush, but what's the plan with the gears? Are you actually planning on manually moving the chain and readjusting the dropouts each time you get to a too-steep bit?