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Thats exactly what I used
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Not much of a story, just spending too much time browsing eBay (compensating the lack bike riding I suppose; working from home, young baby etc.). Sometimes temptation's hard to resist... My size, local-ish collection, cheap, mostly good condition... It was on my watch list and seller made me a good offer. Had to get rid of another bike (the one in - one out law).
Plan's only to clean it up, fresh grease and bar tape, so just a modest project... -
Whilst this is up, I may as well update...
Not much has happened as it's all been about waiting on bike fit numbers.
I did a new fitting as I broke my leg in Jan 2019 and have had a few niggles since then. Mainly knee and shoulder pain.
The fitter (and his Retul kit) put me in a completely different position which, although undoubtedly would allow many miles of injury-free riding, was extremely upright and just felt a bit weird... which wasn't what I had in mind for the fast road bike of my dreams... so I got a second opinion from Scherrit at Bike Whisperer (who has fitted me a couple of times in the past, and who is literally a wizard or something).
It turned out that most of the problems that the Retul fitter had assumed were connected to my bad leg (weird knee tracking, etc) were things that I was doing before the accident (Scherrit keeps notes of these things) and, as they hadn't caused problems historically, they didn't need to be addressed with major changes.
So Scherrit made a few small tweeks to my current position and told me to ride around for a week or two and see if they helped, and try a shorter stem if they didn't.
So that's what I've been doing, and it seems to have worked out okay so far. The legs feel fine and the shoulder thing seems to be more connected to 'workplace ergonomics' (bad drawing desk)... so I think I'm almost good to go. A few more rides just to make sure.
In other news, my wheel-building friend had a Covid scare and had to isolate for a couple of weeks. He's fine now (thank fuck) and I should be able to meet him at some point this week.
Need to speak with Winston and ask if he's still keen to push this through quickly after such a long delay. Something tells me I might be at the back of a long queue again!
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Looking forward to seeing it...
There it is. Cockpit was knackered, bent bars, heavily scratched levers so it was a good opportunity to use a Nitto cockpit I had. Brakes were seized anyway. Fresh grease to headset (I should do the hubs too really...). Fitted an old Brooks of mine instead of the mega padded one that came with the bike, and a front rack that I also had (kind of compromised by the gear cables but it was too tempting to use it). Can't wait to ride it to work next week. Triple crankset will be a nice thing climbing Crystal Palace (knackered atm)
Sorry for derailing your thread!
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I got into weighing them but my chain whip's broken and I couldn't remove the cassette on the rear.
Still... the new front wheel is 132g lighter than the old one (including tyres and everything) which isn't bad considering I've gone from 25 to 28mm : )To be fair, the old ones probably have about 132g worth of crud on them.
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Quick question about lighting:
Is there such a thing as an LED rear light that can be screwed permanently to a rear rack?
Either USB rechargeable or using CR2032 batteries.... and preferably using holes that are 50mm apart, like the SON dynamo ones.Lezyne Femtos (I think) used have little clips on the back of their rear lights which were pretty handy.
(I don't want a dynamo rear light cos I'll be switching racks every now and again).
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Plenty of options, example here: https://www.hema.com/en-gb/hobby-leisure/cycling/bike-lights/bicycle-rear-light-led-41198095.html
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It's pretty easy to set up detachable cabling runs to swap a light on or off a rack (or have multiple of the cheap B&M rears). On my partner's bike I have the light, then a separate cable that runs through the rack, then another separate cable from the dropout to the front, which I can attach the light directly to, on a little mount at the dropout, if I take the rack off.
If you already have a dynamo obvs, probably not worth the faff if you don't!
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The B&M rack lights come in battery versions.
B + M Toplight Line senso Batterierücklicht uses AA.
Looks a bit stupid with the battery compartment, but I am still a big fan of rechargeable AA and AAA lights. -
This kind of thing might do the trick... kind of easy to steal but perhaps I could glue it to the mount and use a long cable to recharge? Kind of a faff.
Or, as above and in the Lights thread, something with USB 'batteries', which I didn't even know existed.
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Quick question time again:
I've just noticed that Spa Cycles sent me two front brake calipers instead of a rear and a front (the threaded thing is short on both so it won't reach through a pair of forks).... It's probably too late to send them back so is there any reason why I can't just use a longer nut, like this one?:
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Cheers @velosaurus, good intel!