Search results for:

what's the reach on the stem?

also any discount for not posting? (manchester based)

prob 56 maybe 58, should've said that really...

Building up a second bike so i don't have to ride my Dolan + spds round all the time.

Not gonna be a total beater but at the same time nothing amazing.

Looking for a coupla bits, mainly 1/8 crankset and rear cog - ideally black crankset but know i might be pushing my luck there. Currently got road double crankset on there but would prefer track set to get better chainline.

Think i've probably got the rest of the bits sorted....

Got an old lugged road frame to use but would ideally prefer a cheap track frame instead of running a conversion so if anyone's got one to sell i'd be interested

Cheers

PM sent

leed's first alleycat

i heard there be hills and cobbles and yorkshiremen there... oh my!

anyone coming along with me???

"Readers of the prestigious Condé Nast (my dad) Traveler magazine voted Leeds the number one city in the UK in 2003, above more well known locations such as London and Edinburgh"

aye, i'm up for this, although high likelihood i'll get lost as i don't know leeds at all

1. Smeear
   
2. alockett
   
3. Slamm
   
4. Moog
   
5. Geoffersmaher
   
6. OliDale
   
7. rg37
   8.Stein
   9.Leo
   
8. Edd 13
   
9. forms (depending on style of shirt)
   
10. motman
    
11. hassanr
    14.Eyebrows - damn you for being too quick
    15.Clefty
    
12. mmccarthy
    
13. a|s (would prefer black t-shirt option so maybe white print? - just to complicate things)
    

think there's something wrong with me, keep reading this thread as Sticky Porn.......

only £25? dibs.

am i missing something here?

Whatever you do, don't go for alloy chainring bolts...fitted some to those miche cranks when i first got em, creaked like a bastard for a day until i fitted steel bolts. And yes, i had greased them. I think alloy bolts in general are a bad idea on bikes

Reckon you should get yourself a small bottle of black touch up paint, those parts are so small you wouldn't really notice a DIY job.

thats a good idea, should've thought of that really! would be interested to see if that heat/diesel oil thing works though...

gears are for queers

agreed, not gonna be me ridin em

Anyone had any luck sourcing smaller bike bits in black. Talking stuff like track nuts, chain ring bolts, stem bolts, seatclamp bolts etc

A dude on a day-glo orange bike, too far away to tell if it was ss or fixed. Going down Oxford road about 2 days ago.

This thread is a bit odd

sure it was a dude, there's a chick called emma who rides an all orange bike (orange frame, saddle, deep vs etc)

I was running 70" and it was fine, very spinny but not too bad due to the lack of traffic. We went straight through to the library exit, tough to keep up speed towards the end.

was guessing it'd be that much. whats the incline like exit side? pretty steep? not really gonna be as much of a problem for guys riding gears i guess

i've got a pre cursa and i love it, guess it may be a bit stiff but i prefer the way it rides to my other steel bikes, feels very solid. regularly do the 10 miles commute to work and have done a few big rides on it and it's perfectly comfortable.

custom painted aerospoke is lovely! it has some issues obviously... the top tube is too short for starters

anyone any idea what these bars are? like the hammerhead style of them

who went?
who got the best deal?
who missed the best deal?
was it worth it?
who is as happy as larry and who is as sick as a parrot?

answers to all or any of the questions would be nice.

i'm pretty happy with what i bought.

brand new mach 1 omega wheelset £60 (not best stuff i know but great for a beater/commuter)

san marco rolls £5

selle italia slr £15

campy scirroco front wheel £10

matte black de rosa seat pin £3

and black miche primato advanced chainset with miche bb and sparkly black chainring courtesey of phasergunalex - cheers dude!

pretty chuffed, the campy wheel looks awesome on my dolan

some decent stuff to be had if you were on the short side, carbon dolan road frame with 105 groupset for £380

pretty impressed with it overall, not as dear as i was expecting tbh

just tried it on my mac running winows on firefox and ie and it won't work on them either?! very strange

none of the hyperlinks on this are working for me, bit puzzled, running a mac and tried it with the latest versions of safari, firefox and opera. not sure why this is?!

I just built a hybrid crow's foot this afternoon. Phil Wood front hub on a Mavic CXP33. I used radial and 2-cross lengths. A drop of linseed oil on the threads. It's a rebuild from a previously pringled rim.

Just use spocalc to work out the lengths or edd, ehren fried chicken's online web app. The radial length may be referred to as zero cross. And you'll need 2-cross too.

Cyclebasket do black spokes singly at only 29p each. The thing with black spokes when ordering them yourself is that online bike shops tend to do only a small range of lengths. So you may not be able to find the one that you are looking for.

Make sure that the radial spoke is on top of the other two that cross.

Have fun.

cool, thanks for your help, was looking at spocalc but had no idea how to input the lacing style will give it a go now, hopefully the spoke lengths aren't too odd to get black ones....

oh wow, that's pretty cool, haven't seen that one before. your best bet is taking that diagram into yor lbs, and letting them sort the rest out for you. they'll use good quality spokes too, I imagine. My lbs use dtswiss, and you have the option of black or silver, and plain guage or double butted.

i will be taking the diagram in, just wanted to know more about it as i know others on here have built up similar wheels, so am looking to them to give me an idea of the specifics of the particular lacing style. wanna understand it first rather than just leaving it all up to the bike shop

crows foot lacing wont work with 32 spokes. Think about it: the spokes are in groups of 3, 3 doesn't go into 32. You need a 36 hole setup really.

that's why the post is about hybrid crow's foot.... its crows foot/radial hybrid lacing, ideal build for 32h

looking to get a wheel built with hybrid crow's foot lacing, everything i've read about the pattern has been complimentary and i fancy something different.

i've got a 32h gran comphe high flange hub and mavic open pro rims.

how do i work out what length spokes i need, guessing there'll be some that are longer than others (radial shorter than crows foot cross ones)?

is your average wheel builder (few small LBS in Manchester plus and evans and a edinburgh cycles) gonna bitch when i mention i want it laced that way and is it likely to cost me more?

Also is it much cheaper for me to source the spokes myself or just use the ones they have in the shop? After black ones, happy with silver nipples though.

i've got one, demolition frame, T-one handlebars, powerbite cranks

welcome to borrow it if you want

I'll take the cranks, and bb...pm on its way.

have already dropped him a pm dude

pm