Like to see pics of that fork

David wraith-Sharman was the man when it came to bicycle drum brakes. He was building floating shoe mods for ages.

As above, blend in the leading edge a bit then ride and brake enough to get the shoe and drum to match curvature. It’ll be about ride 3 that the brakes start to feel at home.

There’s a good thread here:

forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.pforum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?t=68691

Ps. Weird that I was looking at drum brakes on Wednesday for a build…

It’s no surprise that these bikes are evoking memories of earlier mtbs. The American (as opposed to UK) mountainbiking tradition started by making bikes to ride fast on forest and gravel roads. For a long time race, and therefore the mainstream fashion bikes, were essentially built with skinny tyres for going fast on less technical terrain.

What surprises me is that it has taken so long for the trend to pick up. In the UK we have had audax and “cyclocross” bikes with more relaxed fitting and geometry than the race bike end of the market filling the commute, towpath, forest, light touring niche.

Tldr: bikes for similar purpose look similar.

Leave them be. They’ll not hurt you and they will be one of the many solitary or small colony bees rather than the 100,000 odd in each of the hives here. Even with quarter of a million honeybees I got one sting last year…

Dt Swiss hubs are rated for tandem use. I have a 540 here that’s been faultless.

Came here to whinge about popups and redirects. Took 4 attempts to access thread…

Awesome. bit disappointed at the robot for about 30 seconds

It’s a nimbus 36inch wheel unicycle frame I think…

rigid, rohloff, Shand

I’ll be trying the new good years soon…

Rule 1 applies.

I feel anyone benefiting should put time in maintenance back.

A long wheelbase crewcab.

No way are any of my bikes going in a pickup.

1925 delage GP car. Still winning races against ERAs over a decade later!

The only

Try this. It should keep you busy for 2-3 hours:

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27202247

well if it seems high – take £750 for it? ;)

Tell you what – I’ll show you round if it’s on Sunday.

I’d be impressed if you can do it in 2-3 hrs though.

Shhh! He doesn’t know about “Dartmoor Kilometres” yet, let him find out the hard way.

@jam bo makes a good point. I hadn’t read that bit. You’ll not do that ride in 3 hours unless you’re really motoring. Cut off the warren house bit.

that route is fine.

Typically the rohloff stuff is going for about £1200 on ebay but it hangs around a lot. If you want to sell the rohloff it might be worth pming me.

Dartmoor is OK but there’s very limited amounts of truly great riding

you what?

Must be a different Dartmoor

You can’t beat the wiff of GT85 in the morning

You smell that? Do you smell that?… GT85, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of GT85 in the morning. You know, one time we had some stuck bolts sprayed for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked back to the shed. We didn’t loosen one of ’em, not one stinkin’ 5mm cap-ended. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole shed. Smelled like… victory. Someday this winter’s gonna end.

Cheers chaps. Looks like it’ll be a fun explore.

I remember working all summer to buy an hs-px303 portable. I remember the track skip function was like witchcraft.

It’s probably the roller brake.

I’ve knackered several alfine hubs in a variety of interesting ways. None felt “notchy” (except the one that threw a tooth on a gear, that was notchy for about 2m then lunched itself)

 my abiding memory is terror. To be fair it was the wrong bike for the job,

Yep, that’s the one!

Nothing like not being able to stop pedaling to make a tame trail a little livelier!

The barking dog descent does include the sw xc climb bit (which in turn was an old trail).

Kim is the leftmost trail by the start of teepee

The racecourse stuff starts opposite the traveler camp, up & over the bank, then follow the tyre tracks. I think it’s all up on strava.

My karate monkey spends some of its time fixed wheel. It’s interesting and difficult on technical stuff and very pleasant on smooth fireroads. The biggest issue I have is throwing chains through chainstay flex when braking hard. My kaffenback has the same issue sadly.

Legend!

Thread should have stopped here:

you’re being unreasonable

you’ve paid someone for their time and to use tools that you don’t have, they have done the job to the best of their ability and more importantly they have not compromised the integrity of the frame, which you would have been a bit annoyed at if they had done so and it had failed at a later date, despite them giving you the result you specifically asked for

the honzo I had was a beast.

Mum needs to speak to the safeguarding lead at school.

Any suggestion of requests for inappropriate images definitely report to the police; try and get screen shots (particularly if involved snap chat) for evidence.

Good advice but be careful. If you think there are inappropriate images in existence on the device the advice is to not investigate. Turn off the phone and let the police deal with it.

Second hand?

So far this weekend:

Fri: A day of putting trails back together including an old favourite back in action.

Sat: A day of hill climbing and sharp descents in the steep-sided Teign Valley.

Sunday: 60km MTB ride or me. Very wet and sloppy in parts, rode some trails I’ve not ridden in ages, and bagged a reasonable amount of hills.

Mon: Not sure yet. Hopefully out for a road ride. possibly more trail maintenance

Reasonably comfortably over 2k climbing and about 80 km for this weekend so far, quite happy with that.

E – Cake

D – G&T

L Mythos re-telling of greek mythsAudiobook

Nope. If you leave stuff behind it does not count.

Like a more ugly, more expensive, less effective bb7…

I love your collection of bikes epicyclo. I aspire to owning some great historical bikes and like you, I plan to ride them the way they were meant to be used

A question to anyone who has had a bike built with custom geo. How do you know where to begin with the numbers?

I understand what they mean, but I’d have no idea how they work together. I really couldn’t trust myself to spend a decent amount on a frame with custom numbers.

Start with something you really like (karate monkey) and work from there;

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