MAJs gay bikes [she’s in her fitness era]

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i am selling a cane creek 40 headset soon ..

but it will be attached to a Frame

I could do. I mean I have all the adequate equipment at my work... But for the home mechanic the chop of the crown race is a winner.

I like an easy life Amey

Hard to cut things with a pipe

(Sorry)

have been given a quote for £550 for some wheels for this - hope/ kinlin, nice spokes, living wages, local, can pop in on my lunch break etc etc tempting tbqh - reminiscant of the wheels i had on my kepler long ago and i never worried about those.

anyone got something in their shed they want to sell along these lines? nice ish hubs, 700c, rim brake, suitible for big rubber 130 or 135,

always good to support the circular economy reuse not buy new etcetc (yes im bawking at the cost of 550 wheels which are ideal in concept but also i could get maybe used wheels and buy .. i dunno.... a rug or some new crockery)

I have some velocity quills on hope hubs, lightly used, that I may part with.

These sound juicy

Will pm you with a couple of pics when I get home later.

We have a headset on!!!

Got all the parts

Build early next week??!

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these hubs are too noisy i hate them already

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Both of them?

it's quite fun to ride tbqh

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V cheeky you are!

@countryboj thank you for the wheels!

It needs a few tweaks, cable housing on the back needs a little fettling, gears could be tidier - could fettle with the headset some more to get that perfect compression

But overall?

From a car park spin?

Just what I wanted - short, lightish, plump and easy to maintain

A “Boisterous” bike

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That was quick! Looks a lot of fun. Headset looks fab too.

Excellent. Cracking set of photos.
What are the noisy hubs?

it's a hope hoop rear and a hope rsmono front on stans rims

they're really very nice !!!!

came with some lovely panaracer 38s too but there is some room under the mini motos to put these TASTY 43s on at some point

likely when im sober and not playing stardew valley with the boyfriends

Yeah, fortunately the newer Hope RS4s are quieter than the previous models.
Stardew Valley, had to look that one up, enjoy.

Gave it a little cross town shake down, very good

Hubs growing on me already, the buzz feels less annoying against the background of cars and there is nothing like the Blair of a free hub as you carve down a quiet hill.

the gearing is nice, 30t chainring and 34 at the back, won’t win any sprints but for my legs it’s perfect.

Saddle needs changing but it looks good, the position calls for something wider

38s are so nice to ride? Feels good to have an actual gravel bike again, fist time since I sold the Raleigh over a year or more ago. Monster cross or sscx is nice and novel, wide tyre road is doable, but a nice 38 just buzzing along? It’ll never be beaten

There is room to fit the 43s I have under the brakes, but I want to keep these for a bit, they feel fun.

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What's going to happen with the pacer now?

Really like how the cross check has turned out!

Thank you!

The pacer is a good deal longer and lower than the rest of my bikes, so it’ll be when I want something “sportier” feeling.

Also @merle has banned me from selling it

The cross check looks great. Well done. Hope you enjoy many happy shreddy miles upon it.

Having a braking issue where the pads are too thick for the brake track and rub on the non machined part of the rim

The pads themselves are as high as possible, any higher and they start getting caught by the tyre

The tyre is quite bulged due to the rim width and the volume of the tyre but it’s not bad

I’m using Clark’s tripple compound mtb pads, they’re quite chunky, if I swap to the Swiss stop thin lines are they just thinner in the amount of pad to wear, or are they a bit thinner and longer all round?

Im assuming I can’t just ignore it as the rubbing will proceed to be more than just aesthetic at some point

the tail end of rim brake wheels/rims were too wide for normal pads, Ardennes was another example of the same