Current Projects chat and miscellany

Is it called WD40 in Italy? I can never find WD40 or GT85 in Italy or Germany when we need to give the chain a spray. All the ones we can find are oily and we end up with black messy chains when packing the bikes to come home. One year they were so bad I split them off and dumped the chains.

You don't use WD40/GT85 on chains.

black messy chains = too much lubication.

yeah this and surprising lack of spacers!

One would argue that the longer stem give the illusion of having less spacer, I rather compromise with the 54cm instead of getting a 56cm and run a shorter & slammed stem.

Very nice! Quite an upgrade...

It's been surprisingly affordable so far but now comes the expensive bit, levers.
I'm still riding this beast every day. I've calculated that she's saved me a little over £500 in transport fees so far. Thanks to you that is!

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now comes the expensive bit, levers

For the twiple twiangle? SRAM S500 or S900 for teh bling.

Good to see the Lexpres in use: looks pretty rad with the splash tape :)

It's geared so I need force or rival or something. Whatever is cheapest but they all go for silly money on ebay. Everything is second hand on this build so I'm not going to be paying £200+ for new levers.
Haha thanks, it's great

GT85 is actually pretty good at cleaning chains: spray it liberally on a cloth, clean chain then apply lubricant of your choice.

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^^

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sram-Apex-Doub­le-Tap-Zero-Loss-Shifters-/271803606982?­pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f48c1e7c­6

are pretty cheap at £70 for the pair or if you want to go a bit better (but battered) then

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/W228-SRAM-RED-­10-SPEED-DOUBLE-SHIFTERS-CARBON-LEVER-GO­OD-CONDITION-OM-/151607159096?pt=LH_Defa­ultDomain_3&hash=item234c7da938

if they're working then they're definitely worth the extra £40, just sand them a bit to get all the decals off and they'll look fine. There's also a couple of pairs of force on 'bay for about £100, but the red would be worth the extra £9 so I won't bother linking them :)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nitto-Quill-St­em-/301556276365?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&h­ash=item4636279c8d

Wasn't somebody here looking for a Nitto Technomic? Looks a lot like one (very high) and £25 BIN

I usually spray degreaser to removed the murk off before applying lubication.

Just wondering how do you guys go about getting riser bars in a quill stem with out scratching the crap out of the bar in the process?

Either proper wedge tool or screwdriver ever so slightly expanding the gap in the stem. Keep twisting the bar as you progress in order to find the path of least resistance.
Let the euph-phest begin.

my current project is fixing my cycling shoes

anyone know where I can buy a one of these?
http://web.archive.org/web/2010072801344­1/http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Shim­ano_SPD-SL_Shoe_Plate_Insert/5360021965/­

otherwise, if I dremel my stuck bolt out would I get away with just bolting cleat into the two inserts (it's the one at the top of the triangle that's fucked)?

Tomrides

Just wondering how do you guys go about getting riser bars in a quill stem with out scratching the crap out of the bar in the process?

I've used the coin trick a few times successfully:

https://janheine.files.wordpress.com/201­2/01/stemwcoin.jpg

I was, thanks. Think I need the even longer one though!

Just saw your tourer they sure went for a strange size jump. No wonder you need ultra high. There are also Nitto technomic for £38 on eBay they seem another little big higher.

25.4 bar clamp.

Yeah, weird one! I seem to think they made them in 26 clamp as well (I hope so, as I've got about 10 sets of Cinelli bars to choose from...)

@ edscoble

Nice genesis, was tempted by one myself but it only comes with campag which is a crying shame

Sjs cycles has everything. Not an exxageration if they exist in 26 they'll have them.

If not a shim will do the job.

If not a shim will do the job.

LOL

#beikgeekjoke

I found replacement shoe inserts in the end, so we'll see how the super-gluing goes