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Hahah ennit, I certainly would love to have a mtb, maybe if i ever get to move out of London…

Swift frameset will be for sale though! It’s pretty beat but I’ve got no need for it

I have a plastic Garmin compatible out front mount you can have.

I think it works for a wahoo if you rotate the inner plate.

It's not beautiful but free if you want it.

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Sorry to jump on this, but I miiiight just have two of those please?

Bike is here. Big thanks to @mf for being the ideal seller, couldn’t have asked for better communication.

I’ve started fettling. Cantilever brakes. Scared.

I think I need to recable the whole thing, which may be a good process to learn how it all works anyway. Still, worried.

I put some SRAM Omniums on and chainring spider clearance is tight. What we saying? Fine or danger zone? There’s also now play in these cranks when there wasn’t when they were in the Swift. The bb wasn’t even fresh when I got it so maybe it’s not just given up the ghost? I’ve attached a video so you guys can judge. It’s all greased and torqued.

I’ll get a new bb if folk reckon the spider clearance is fine, as much as I should just give up these stupid cranks with their stupid GXP bb, Ive got them so I’ll use them if possible

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I’ve started fettling. Cantilever brakes. Scared.

RIP

Sheldon and Zinn and some beer.

yeah really gonna have to enter the zen zone to get this done i think

a standard road cable set will do this job oui?

It might be ok, just listen out for it clipping under hard pedalling, I remember the allday being quite flexy so it could catch.

You could put a small perfectly sized spacer between the BB shell and DS cup to bring it out a mm or so

ah yeahhhh tbf i have omitted the recommended spacer from either side of this install just because I’ve always happened upon bikes setup with Omniums/GXP without the 2.5mm spacers installed

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You could put a small perfectly sized spacer between the BB shell and DS cup to bring it out a mm or so

Do this. The play is due to gxp being preloaded by bearing distance because of the fixed 22mm non drive side. Because the BB shell is likely a bit less wide than the swift, there is now play.

I gave up on gxp but not on sleek gxp cranks with those hollowtech 2 convertors and 24mm wavey washers. Cheaper and mechanically better/less prone to user error. AliExpress does some!

thanks for all your help guys, you’re all amazing.

But. I found 2 of the spacers. Tried it, somehow made the gap even closer…? I dunno if I’m going crazy. And it didn’t fix the play. I dunno.

So. Velo Orange 170mm with 44t are back in. I wasn’t sold on how much vintage vibes they give the bike and thought the omniums would balance it all out for more of the neo-classic look that i like. That along with at how bigger 1x/SS chainrings in 110bcd 5 bolt seem to be tricky to come by, and that they’re 170mm instead of the 165mm that I’ve been riding for ages.

BUT. Then I realised. Is 5mm reaaallly that much of a difference? I’m sure I’ll get used to it by the time I’m actually riding this for enough hours in a row for 5mm to become noticeable. The semi-enforced easier gearing is not even an issue at all, I’ll put a 17t fixed cog on the rear to go with the 16t Halo freewheel and carry on cruising around, hey maybe I’ll even attend a south east Hills again…

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Taking notes!

The heart wants what the heart wants, have been looking at this half done bike on the wall, the cranks are a bit too retro for me.

So I’ve been looking into getting the omniums to work. I’ve chatted to a couple Allday/SRAM Omnium users and have deduced two things to help solve my issue:

1) I’ll run a single 2.5mm spacer on the drive side of the BB
2) Omnium crank arm spider and its native 48t chainring are thick. They have their own special wider chainring bolts to fit the two together. I sold some silver omniums with a 49t Sugino 75 chainring to @Nef a while ago and they put them on their Allday. Their chainring bolts sit a lot flusher (see below)

Going to pick up a new BB tomorrow, but does anyone happen to have a 144bcd fixie chainring in the 49-44t range kicking around for sale? Black or silver

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I sent you that dirty close up in confidence! Now the world knows about my crusty stays! That’s my plan of marrying into the aristocracy out the window.

Minor updates.

• Traded some bread for a beat old black chainring. Sanded the tattered black plastic-y coating off.
  
• Omniums and new bb fitted. fuck it, we ball
  
• Swapped the brown hoods out for black for little less retrogrouch vibes
  

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I totally get why you went for the omniums and ditched the brown hoods, good stuff

+1
Clearance looks fine to me on the cranks too.

bought a 48t chainring off here but is actually 135bcd I think

anyway, I’d like to find a 49/48/47t replacement ASAP ready for the weekend.

Can anyone help a fellow out?

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@althecoach is hoarding a 49t for me, i'd like it at some point but you're totally welcome to borrow it if you can grab it before the weekend (i'll need to send him funds). Alternatively i have a 46t you can borrow as a last resort.

i have a couple of 48t truvativ black ( omnium classic stuff) in n7

you’re all legends and the bike community is great, got one from 15 mins up the road 🫡

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The weekend ride that I was a little frantically sorting this bike out for went really well.

100 mile fixed ride from London to Deal for the 9th edition of john.ma3k’s Deal With It ran by the Fixed Beers guys the past few years.

It was such a good ride, great group of people, just 9 of us in total all in similar enough shape and with reliable enough equipment that we could keep the pace steady and enjoy the empty night roads to then sit down and enjoy the really lovely sunrise at Reculver, which then soon turned to bright morning sunshine as our backdrop for some rolling up n down roads along to Deal.

Didn’t get many photos of the bike but it worked great. Was really spot on timing getting a fixed bike with drops, hoods, and both brakes in the pipeline right at the same time the ride was scheduled. I was a tad nervous going into as I wasn’t sure where my fixed legs were at, having not only that front brake but also the rear was just little extra help/reassurance I needed.

I put bags on for bits, put the Hulsroy cages that will be going in on the Kepler, it weighed a lot, but I could still just about churned it up some hills on a forgiving 48x19 setup. I’m glad I gave into the impulse buy, would really love to do more rides like this.

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Fuck yeah dude. This is rad. The bike is rad. YOU’RE RAD.

haha thanks man.

10 year anniversary next year, anyone is welcome!

Very cool, looks like i ride i could enjoy. Nod to whoever rode the brkls Bridgestone.

Bike looks great, how are the canti's with the TRP levers?

Next time ya gotta come!

lots of brekless guys, maybe 6 out of the 10 but yeah brekless Bridgestone owner is a top guy, he’s been leading these since John went to Aus. Biggest nod goes to brakeless 24inch wheel pursuit bike rider (just in the right edge of that photo) who has done this ride on that bike every year for 10 years. Mental.

They seem to be good enough at slowing me down in fixed mode with the legs pushing too, feel fine, not tried them in SS mode as the sole source of stopping power yet!