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

I know you're doing sensible stuff like making the bike feel nice to ride, but I'm looking forward to some fork attachments/accessories...

you an me both,

it's actually quite hard to find little single bot widgets to put on them, if anyone has any ideas on where to find such useless stuff which looks good, i'm all ears

a bolt on bottle opener?

direct mount fork bag?

bolt on emergency spork?

a pump mount would actually be pretty cool come to think of it

disc brakes

mounting a calliper to the exterior of the fork blade would be quite the deconstructionist statement you're right

What about a rotor mounted to the side of the fork with a sprocket driven by a little chain from the front hub, and a caliper acting upon it attached to the next mount along?

Sorry for hijacking your thread, I thought I was in the Ali-Express one. Thanks for replying anyway.

amazing! yes thats me.
i got some more for you!
dm me and lets sort it out

the build is looking f i r e
I like the rear stays on the homer
super!

i have all the bits to do the crank swap but the last bolt on the little ring rounded and now i want to [redacted]

simply have hit the suburban wall,

physically unable to go on,

completely asphyxiated by the atmosphere of this 2 up 2 down hell hole.

endless cul-de-sac's and no cycling signs

off street parking and on street suv's

coffee? well there's starbucks, pret, the bus station and the local Waitrose

bike shop? a man in a van, a downhill bike centre and a handful of men who grunt if you look in their direction

culture? screaming in the garden, circular discussions about family disputes and driving to the local trading estate for a new dunhelm bed set

sure maybe you can ride to the woods, a whole 4x4 miles square afforded to those not born into gentry

maybe a carefully calculated route of light bridal path to avoid the prowling hatchbacks in swooping lanes

maybe you find a quiet spot for a minute or two, in between the hum of the flightpath, motorways and farmers screaming indistinctly

just long enough to [redacted]

That sucks. Alu bolts suck. Time to drill it out.

It’s not a 2 sided one 🙃

My drill lacks the torque to drill into the bolt side, and rn, I’m lacking the will power to buy and learn about “tapping”

I don’t think it’s ceased maybe could try epoxy/ superglue an old Torx key in and back it out that way?

More things To moan about I guess

The only solution to this is to buy more handlebars.

Aren't you moving to London? It's all that only more SUVs and less green space, fewer quiet spots.

Yes but at leas it has bike shops and coffee spots, a worthy trade

When's the move?

It took some drilling

Some hack sawing

Some more drilling, but laterally

Then an all mighty “arrrgghhh” as I simply ripped the tiny ring off with the bolt sheering at the top

But the new ring be on

I still hate being a bike mechanic

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10th next month! Few more weeks of post war cycle infrastructure to go

I fully expect to be saying how much I miss this place within 7 months

Don’t forget to do up the chainring bolts properly or you’ll have a new creak to gnaw at your inner peace and quiet.

Don't mean to add fuel to the fire here... But doesn't the ring go on the outside of that spider??

sub 32 tooth rings go on the inside of the 104bcd cranks apparently, i found this out as the ring arrived and i wondered why it looked weird. this prompted a breakdown in a self loathing touring bike related signal chat, in which people kindly talked me down from buying the matching hope bash guard as a way of coping with such news.

i am now pretending i have given up any preservation of aesthetic, labelling all these nodder looking downgrades as "hesh", "really putting function before form" and "reverse engineering a DIY aesthetic by abandoning all but the most board stroke and socio cultural aesthetic reasoning" in the hope of getting something remotely "care free" and "well ridden", while mainlining various mood altering prescriptions, hoping it kills the part of my brain which cares about this before i fall into a coma from cnc deficiency

i could help a lot but i live in middle earth

Ahh yeah fair enough.

I mean a lil black bash guard would look really nice I think.

Or,

2x

Thank you @gubhi and I agree @Josh would look great, just burned out on spending more money on what was supposed to be a buy and forget build!

I think for now both of these will be staying in the shed when I move, I will likely take my tools with me, maybe the odd part to help furnish a new hack / travel bike for getting around, but I don’t think either of these bikes are suitable for London and I don’t really want to be a “oooh no I can’t lock up here” sort, too long doing that in Manchester .

Will be nice to rediscover them at some point or even come back and work on them occasionally, take my time getting the homer to where I want it.

With this in mind I spent the afternoon clearing out the shed for my parents, got rid of some old units, decluttered stuff from when I helped them move a couple years ago and everything fits nicely. Feel less guilty about leaving my crap here now they can get to the freezer without shimmying past my meltdowns.

I have a perfectly functional langster stored with a friend, just needs wheels I have here and a few finishing bits, would be suitable.

But Part of me is tempted to just get and old tourer I can eventually bling up if it survives some time as a daily, as it’s the project I’d like to do next. @Skülly recently tantalising the thorn fits this bill, “perfectly fine hack bike to enjoy” with a good platform to build out when I no longer need a single bike. In the style of some of the lovely builds users have done recently to old tourers, a faux Rivendell, brexitified of course.

@launchpadboi has built a magnificent one they’re keeping close to their chest

Having something not a alloy fixed gear would probably make me more inclined to cycle for leisure too, always good.

So maybe we get to start series 3 of “maj builds a knock off”

And for @amey my parents finished their garden, been enjoying some home grown salad and veg for a little while

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finalising the details on this from a man in Bangor, was a somewhat lucky find

pretty much stock, xl i believe, should be paying less for this shipped than i did for my last pompino frameset

plans?

• leave pretty much as is, cover it in stickers, carefully placed electrical tape and mud

• swap the bars to something swept and narrow ish, tiny stem, put some pedals on

don't you have one of these?

yes but this is slightly bigger and not dripped in the finest cnc a email miner can buy

do you really think you won't change anything on this?

yes :)

remarkable parity here between the opening of the thread and now, in which you ask if anyone has a certain type of bike for sale then buy something completely different, does this not show yourself and us that you've learned nothing?

no comment

if this were to continue in mirroring the thread we can safely assume you will continue modifying this bike regardless of its purpose or your proposed abstinence and you will soon be back in the same scenario which left you leaving two bikes in your parents shed?

no comment, how about we move this onto something the viewers are more interested in

right you are, with that in mind, what made you chose a larger frame opposed to another 56?

excellent question, you see this was available and the other size was not

surely this further highlights the irrational and foolhardy sensibilities often propagating in this thread where you move on a seeming emotional feeling and aesthetic idealism than you do providing a finished and functional project?

look i'm not liking your tone here but it's safe to say you're off the mark with this 2nd year psychology undergrad schtick!

apologies, these questions were not meant to make you uncomfortable, i'm sure the resulting project will be enjoyable for yourself and those who watch this car crash of thread.... sorry i mean... no... i do mean that

i think this interview is over, i'd like you to leave

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If this is getting locked up in London. Downgrade it, and fit some bar end plugs

garden looks nothing like moodboard