Current Projects chat and miscellany

LBS managed to free the stem and bottom bracket.
Seat post remain very stuck.

Weekend plans sorted.

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I've had the same issue twice and resolved it with caustic soda!!

Make sure you tape the seatpost up as water tight as you can, like really water tight. Then pour the solution through the bb into the seat tube.

After about 24 hours it'll either be disolved completely or enough to free it up and remove it!

Samson is hot purple fire! I've always wanted an NJS sparkly road bike.
DA9000 is a modern classic, it just works so well with the Nitto stuff.

It actually reminds me I need to ride my neo-retro Vitus more.

After buying new ball bearings for the Campagnolo Chorus headset, I realised the headset was missing its cups... So couldn't use it!
That'll teach me to read eBay descriptions in full.

Used a Shimano 600 6500 headset from the parts box.

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Such a good looking headset. Same is on my Muddy now.

Ping me if you want a Record headset, BNIB.

I am trying to get this bike back on the road but it's fighting back - let's see how I get on doing that first

That is a wonderful beast

now with the pelago instead of the surly disc trucker fork. rides ok. in theory the longer wheelbase should be a more stable ride with loaded front rack. tight fit with 26x2.2 race king.
not sure i like the look of the fork on this bike.

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Looks fun. Put a rack on it!

thanks. basil portland with wald hardware will have to do for now.

So I sold my blue fixed tracklocross/road thing and my Pomp commuter as I wanted to consolidate some bikes and reclaim some room in my flat. I ended up with components from both bikes being put on a new frame (pictured below). I was then going to use the new bike for commuting but soon realised that it's way too nice for that so I bought a Bromptom as my job doesn't provide secure bike parking.

Bikes, lol.

really really nice

Looks great. What’s the frame?

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/3277­17/?offset=2175#comment16747509

Bikes, lol

n±1🙂

A work in progress. A '98 Kona Explosif with a semi suspension corrected steel fork: The Rack-bike.

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Looks cool!

Nice use of the CXC fork.
Also, hello fellow danish suburbanite!

Haha, close! Swedish suburbanite but yeah I see how that brickwork would fool you. One of the reasons I bought the house was the danishness of it. I'm half dane too so it fits!

Cheers!

Yeah, the combination of the red brick and concrete paving stones makes it look at home in Denmark.

nice, what are those forks?

I see how that brickwork would fool you

It's touching how you two have formed a bond

Old 'Poison bike' forks. New ones are now thru axle. They weren't cheap, even 6 years ago! If memory serves they were 100+ euros. Could be less expensive than the CXC segmented forks @MisterMikkel mentioned above though.