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They're not perfect but I'm fairly happy, I quite like the folding knife. It's a design I stole loosely from an existing popular knife called a svord peasant. Really simple and fairly easy to make.

Kitchen knifes and folding knife

I have made some progress on a variety of things, but nothing crazy. I have some cool bicycle things planned, including a breakaway minivelo for a friend (and forumenger). Ive been mountain biking a lot and negotiating with French bureaucracy. All the things you've heard are true, nothing gets done, i don't miss the rainy island but the UK does get the bureaucracy right at least.

Ive also made some knives, small kitchen knives and a few simple folding knives.

I gotta say im not that clued up on framebuilding courses these days, although theres a few people in the current projects on the forum who have done them so worth a look as they might give an insight. I did a course at the bicycle academy years ago and it was great, however they no longer exist.

Ah yeah, ill hunt down a shop with one.

Haha yes that is what I feared

Does anyone have a solution for a fully bricked di2 rear mech? Its fairly old, but nothing untoward has happened to it. It just packed up one day and has not started again, no amount of fiddling has fixed it.

Ive tried all the obvious di2 things, but it does not shift and does not show up on the etube. Its not any other components as i have other di2 mechs that work fine with the same groupset.

Anything considered. Looking for ideally,

50/34
160mm
24mm axle but can do 30 or gxp
11spd

Cheers!

I also put the 90mm stem back on the mtb and its incredible how much difference a shorter stem makes to traction. I know this isnt news to anyone but mtbing is new to me. Especially round here where there's a lot of loose rocky climbs. So im definitely convinced of short stems on mtbs and will probably built a 60ish mm stem to test.

Thanks! I put it on the bike, very happy with how it feels, got a few hours in yesterday and the position felt good.

yeah that would be cool, i could also try and get some laser cut.

Thanks! Yeah I hope the classic look will be cool on a modern steel bike, will put it on tomorow and see!

wow thats awesome

particularly pleased with this side.

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This is the stem i built today to replace the pink stem, basically identical except more bolts and removable faceplate, which i havent done before but came out nicely. I used rack bosses, which may look a but funny, we'll see. In the future i'll look for a different threaded boss to use.

The matching stem vs the old zipp stem, the zipp stem was cool but slightly too long and i didn't like how it wasnt level. The pink stem is nice but i dont like the lack of bolt redundancy.

Ive been enjoying the stems recently, made another one today, for my road bike. I dug out the stem i built when i built the frame and put it on. I like the way it looks but im not really into the single blot clamping anymore, so i built another stem with a double bolt steerer clamp, and did a four bolt faceplate. Very happy with it, i think it came out very cool, i will just slot the steerer tube then put it on the bike and see how it looks.

Same yeah! I do like powdercoat for many things, however real wet paint is a very different a way nicer finish, so its great to have some frames get wet painted.

I also sent the track frame off to paint with Jack Kingston, I'm exited to see it done, i think it'll be really cool he does lots of great stuff.

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I made a stem for the mountain bike, it was very nice to build, its so fun to weld heavy wall stuff after welding the 0,6mm tubing of the track frame. Im pretty happy with the stem, although i kinda wish id made it a bit more aggressive. I havent got any pics of it on the bike yet but will do soon

Frame looks great!

I'll get some better photos of the frame at some point in the next few days.

It's going to get painted by Jack Kingston, which is exciting. I think it will look great, sounds like it's going to be purple although I'm not sure if the colour has been fully settled yet.