Not just your custom builds I want to see your conversions (M960s to Jones cranks) etc. What have you done to make your bike and parts that bit more niche?
I think us MTBers have got slack with our personal touches, its common place in the fixy world (not that, that should be a blueprint).
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Lets see your projects, cuts, chops, conversions, welds etc
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I polished my cranks! And I'm painting some forks the old SID electric blue colour (2001) to match at the moment... work in progress:
I love getting pics of my GT out, but need better ones...Posted 1 year ago # -
Thats my favourite bike colour scheme. Loved them Zaskars.
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built my own brakes from bits of xtr flappy paddle dual control shifters and re-machined straightline levers, lovely feel to them, they'll kill me one day
made my own 29er u turn forks (70-100mm) out of bits of revelations and reba 29ers as shown on this fugly monster
they haven't killed me yet either
at some point I expect to have a horrific bodging related disaster
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I give you...Frankenbike.
21032010287 by pten2106, on FlickrPosted 1 year ago # -
A speedbone hacked for transfering torque from a rohloff to an on-one slotted drop out frame.
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@ Takisawa- did the project go any further?
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Small fry compared to some of the above - but here's my 'Jones' modded XTR cranks.....
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This is my new project (just arrived today), not proving very straightforward with all these new standards. In the good olde days you could just swap out all the kit from your other bike.Posted 1 year ago # -
I made a headset. once
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Had my swingarm professionally bodged.
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My god, are you entering that in Robot Wars extreme?
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Next Mad Max movie.
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It's not a bike anymore, it's a contraption.
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Profile shot, I thank you.http://flic.kr/p/8F1TWY
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Sorry, technical fail. I made a nice bike though, honest.
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Well yeah, but it still works. In manner of speaking.
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Two bodges for the price of one
Horizontal dropouts on a 95 Kona Explosif after the chainstay snapped.
Bodged 18t sprocket onto a Hope Splined disc hub to run as a flip/flop fixie/free.
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Carbon bike I made a few years ago.
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@richmars - That is quality! Did it last?
Me -
University project excuse to make a bike; a loong time ago!
16_stand.jpg by Flamejob, on FlickrAnd on Flameboy almost everything is home fettled...
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@richmars - That is quality! Did it last?
Yes, but I don't use it. Made for the 'fun' of learning how to do it.Posted 1 year ago # -
@ Ambrose, slightly but now mothballed till I get more time.
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Stoner, that's a neat job and some clear pictures.
I thought about buying an On One frame once and it was the difficulty of using a Rohloff with it that put me off.
Isn't there still a chance that the torque arm will move within that gap as it gets wider when the wheel is further back ?
The torque reaction on a Rohloff goes both ways, depending on which gear it's in.Posted 1 year ago # -
@richmars got any more photos - I'm fascinated. Did the bits come off an old Trek Y-Bike or something?
[edit just found them ]
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Graham - the torque bar will move very slightly up and down until it contacts the dropout plate. It's a tiny movement and not at all noticeable. A bit of carbon paste or copper slip means there's no sound either.
The On-one/Lynskey Ti drop out plate is beefy as hell so has no problem with the set up.
It makes for a lovely tidy set up. IMO.
The reason I used this instead of a monkey bone was because i didnt want the expense of having to get a post mount caliper (which you need for a monkey bone) when I had a perfectly good IS XTR.Posted 1 year ago # -
flamejob,
All frame bit home made, bike assembled from old bit I had. Only bit I brought was the shock. The rear suspension is modelled on a Whyte.Posted 1 year ago # -
De-anodized and polished the Midge bars for my Peregrine:
Put a Gates Carbon Drive belt on my Kona A
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Just a little thing compared to above, fitted a cog to a six bolt to centerlock converter so I could run my centerlock wheels as a fixed free flip flop
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"the torque bar will move very slightly up and down until it contacts the dropout plate"
Isn't that a problem then ?
Below 11th gear, the torque reaction on a Rohloff is in the opposite direction to the wheel. Above 11th gear it is the same way.
I would have thought that as you went through the gears the torque bar would have taken up the slack, first one way, then the other, rotating on the single mounting bolt until it worked loose.
If it's working OK so far, then fair enough.I had to modify my speedbone to fit a Chameleon, then a Gary Fisher Rig as the outer face of the caliper mounting is not flat.
I'll take some pictures next time I've got the bike at home.Posted 1 year ago # -
the mounting bolt threads into the frame, not the torque block. SO it can be threadlocked to the frame without binding the block and not precess.
the torque bar only changes direction as you cross the middle gear.
as I mention the movement is less than a mm if you file the torque block accurately enough.
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firestarter, that fixed cog's neat and simple, i like it.
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My M960s arrived today ready for the Jones conversion.
I had originally tried a set of polished m952s, but they were'nt pretty. Second time lucky..
I will keep you posted as I get them done. I will be using ajantom's as a template.
Good work rickmars fantastic project, any more pic? I know a guy who built a carbon bike based around an inbred, all done in his kitchen.
ir_bandito Love those midges. Did you just use some caustic soda and then polish?Posted 1 year ago # -
@flamejob.
Your flameboy is truly stunning. Did you make the frame?
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