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502 Club Raffle no.5 Vallon, Specialized Fjällräven Bundle Worth over £750
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Is it a 26er? I have a 15mm through axle (FOX TALAS FIT damper too) to get rid of. from memory 110 130 150 travel but would have to check. With long straight steerer. been sat in storage for ages.
RetrodirectFree MemberThat’s really nicely done, especially the subtle angle that it holds the jars at
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RetrodirectFree MemberSteel bikes have them brazed in because the stress will triple around any hole drilled and the braze-on provides support for the hole.
Aluminium frames often use rivnuts but have been designed to account for this stress concentration.
I mean it’s your choice but it’s a fancy steel frame so it’s probably better to do it the proper way.
RetrodirectFree MemberGet them brazed in, don’t DIY it with rivnuts. Andy at Eastside bikes (Edinburgh) or Ben Cooper at Kinetics in Glasgow.
RetrodirectFree MemberMy Jeff Jones. It was so comfortable and the best bimbler I’ve ever ridden but when the riding got rough and fast it was terrible.
If I was going on a world tour it may be the one I’d choose but for anything else I’d choose something else.
and what modern mountainbike can’t run a proper dropper-post? 27.2 choices are limited and mostly crap.
RetrodirectFree MemberSome 800mm wide jones bars with a silly paintjob. Not made for me and mainly because I could. :)
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RetrodirectFree MemberHand gripping it doesn’t do it, it’s also not been fitted to a bike yet so not had a chance to check outside. Seller of the paint thinks it will change on a warm day. :)
RetrodirectFree MemberPainting bike-parts in temperature changing paint!
I can’t seem to add the video on stw so click here:
RetrodirectFree MemberFab skills getting better. I need to get some washers underneath those bolt-heads. Shaped by eye with an angle-grinder.
RetrodirectFree MemberYep, that’s another of mine, that’ll be my friend Aaron. Pink and yellow splats with stickers all over it?
edit: this one?
The flat splat technique I was using was a bit experimental for that one and is a bit more refined now.
RetrodirectFree MemberSo much going on here I didn’t think one or two photos would suffice. A friends paid me to repaint his bike, I agreed on the condition that I was able to paint it how I liked.
This is the result
Splatterpainting and fades for days.
RetrodirectFree MemberMidway through paint on my (third) DIY cycletruck. Off to the workshop tonight to give it it’s clear topcoat. Make it shiny and bling.
Loud paintjobs are rad!
I’ve uploaded more photos here:
http://www.instagram.com/colinlikesbikes/RetrodirectFree MemberA short wheelbase cargo-bike. An improvement on a Schwinn cycletruck. Fillet brazed from NOS ovalised 531 tubing with a shimano e6000 ebike motor mount. Those are anything cage mounts on the front prongs and the post is sized to take a(n unecessary dropper post). Rack still to be built, it will be rad…
Anyone any ideas for a paintjob? I’m thinking neon splatter-paint
If anyone’s interested updates to the various projects are at: http://www.instagram.com/colinlikesbikes/
RetrodirectFree MemberHubs are always the jewellery of a bike, looking good in bright shiny colours.
So I repainted a dynamo hub in chavvy flip paint. It’s the equivalent of a numberplate in a funny font on an otherwise fast but constantly broken down car.
I like it.
instagram.com/colinlikesbikes/ for more photos of my tat for lols
RetrodirectFree MemberDo you find your electric bike TOO electric?
E6000 conversion mount, to make your shimano ebike into just another bike. Made from ovalised NOS 531 tandem tubing and painted in a classy gloss finish.
more photos here: http://www.instagram.com/colinlikesbikes/
Just needs chased and faced now. It replaces the motor.
RetrodirectFree MemberExperiences of Marino are very variable.
Try this guy instead?
http://www.bikemielec.com/en/Reviews have all been good from people I know who have had them.
RetrodirectFree MemberCeeway are good, peter’s always quick to respond and usually fairly cheap compared to other suppliers (other suppliers are not UK based). If you email for prices it’s not a commitment to buy.
But yes, it is a business that’s run in an old fashioned way.
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What IS that mad setup underneath the bb on that trek? A gearbox? a motor?
RetrodirectFree MemberGetting ready for Pedal On Parliament in Edinburgh at the weekend with my BMX sidecar.
RetrodirectFree MemberI welded up another cargo carrying bike. It’s a real pain having to carry heavy tooling around a city without a car. I also enjoyed giving it a mad looking paintjob.
I’m too impatient before calling it done. It’s got clearcoat drying at the minute and needs another coat, but here is what it looks like.
RetrodirectFree MemberI have always loved 90s splatters. I’m getting better with a spraygun. It’s very satisfying.
There’s also a repair to the bottombracket threads and full loop hoseguides changed for ziptie guides done.
RetrodirectFree MemberI fillet brazed this frame together about 10 years ago and decided it was time for a repaint. I think I mis-chose the colour though. I’m going to get the kit back out and do it in something I’m happy to be seen in public on. It’s much more salmon in real life. Yuk!
RetrodirectFree MemberBuilt 6 weeks back. I’ve been needing to carry heavy workshop stuff; metal, tooling and the likes but I don’t own a car. A fullblown cargo bike is overkill however.
so…
I was admiring this omnium and decided to make my own version.
Built from scrap metal leftover from my adventures in learning TIG.
I present to you, the Cargoturd!
It may be ugly but it works so well that I’ve ordered a bunch of tubing to build a fancy version.
There’s a sleeved and welded steerer extension in there, extended headtube and an enormous rack. Fag paper calcs say it’ll yield at a 100kg pointload right on the end so reasonably overbuilt yet is surprisingly light – a lot of the tubing is fairly thin walled.
RetrodirectFree MemberAvoid Marino, get a Mielec.
Marino’s quality is very variable, mine was hilariously different to the drawing and another guy’s was very very visibly squint.
A lot of the trials crowd rate Marino highly but somehow when that get translated into bikes with full length seat-tubes they all go to pot. A jigging issue?
Never heard a bad thing about Mielec’s quality
RetrodirectFree MemberI rode the Pindari Glacier trail when i was a bit younger and a lot fitter. Good riding! I was following hiking trails (there are alot listed) and the riding was good. I rode it on a singlespeed however, I was a broken man by the end.
Pindari might be a bit far for a single day however.
RetrodirectFree MemberAre you sure you’re capable of building a bike?
hah, yowch. The wrath of STW.
They give you a bit more of an elbows out position than the Jones bars which I’ve been getting on better with in the rough stuff.
RetrodirectFree MemberMine did, I had to way overtorque the stem bolts to stop it from happening. My hands in the rearmost position were way behind the stem clamp and the moment caused from landing drops kept shifting them.
RetrodirectFree MemberOur frames are out through an over and above level of testing mechanical failure testing.
Out if interest, what do you mean? You test-ride them? or that you give them destructive fatigue testing a la CEN?
RetrodirectFree MemberRode in Kyrgyzstan doing some touring nearly 10 years ago now. Scenery is incredible. Great riding spot. I was looking at this race just as an excuse togo back.
If you go, eat the laghman(?), omnomnom
RetrodirectFree MemberOh, I’ve also ridden the urban arrows. The riding position is not an athletic one, it’s a sit up and beg dutchbike position. This means if your e-motor ever packs in they become borderline unridable as there’s toomuch weight and an inability to make power due to the position.
I was not a fan
RetrodirectFree MemberThe manager at the bikestation has a bafang equipped kona commuter bike. He might be there for a chat.
RetrodirectFree MemberI was a cargo-bike courier for a bit and have ridden most bikes over the years. The ones that really impressed me were the bullit and the omnium.
I never got on with the handling of any of the rear loaders, the handling varied too much with the load. With the exception of the 8freight, though the handling on that didn’t feel right at any time (no feedback through the handlebars).
the MSC truck was a dangerous flexy monstrosity that most in our company would refuse to ride, it was as if somebody had described what riding a bicycle should feel like to someone who has never ridden one.
The bullit is a proper van replacement for working delivery people, though overkill for most. the omnium rides mostly like a normal bike but with huge rack space and is best for most.
RetrodirectFree MemberSurly Moloko, everything the Jones Bars promised to be but never were. Got them on my Jones and really like them. 740mm wide, 35degree?