Oddo

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• Retro Deore mtb Cranks 175mm. Pace chainrings.

  in Components, clothing and miscellany • 3 hours, 50 minutes

  

  What size are the pace rings?

• For sale: complete retro MTB groupset - Shimano STX / Deore LX - 3x7, canti brakes - price drop

  in Components, clothing and miscellany • 3 hours, 52 minutes

  

  I would take the shifters in case of a split

• Failed projects clearout PT2

  in Components, clothing and miscellany • 3 hours, 54 minutes

  

  2nd on the fork

• Varonha Frameworks winter bike / FW Evans 650b conversion rat bike fun

  in Current Projects • 2 days, 19 hours

  

  This came out so well! All the proportions feel on point.

• On-One Inbred 29" winter ssmtb I won't use

  in Current Projects • 5 days, 21 hours

  

  Looks rad! Good proportions. I love the bars.

• Raleigh Romanceur

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• The Two Bicycles of Varonha. Or, Jontea's blah blah blah.

  in Current Projects • 1 week, 2 days

  

  Okay let me know. I send them out a week ago.

• The Two Bicycles of Varonha. Or, Jontea's blah blah blah.

  in Current Projects • 1 week, 2 days

  

  The shifters should have arrived by now?

  That a really list of parts. Looks very similar a list of parts somebody sold a few weeks back ;)

  I had the same problem with the Pacenti rims. I went the other way and got 28h rims instead of 32h because the were available. Had to get a new rear hub though. I still have the 32h silver hope rs4 hub in case that’s of any interest.

• Raleigh Romanceur

  in Current Projects • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Cheers for the kind words everyone.

  I am not a fan at all of these moustache bars (sorry @bright). The idea of non-drop bars was to get more control and confidence in handling and benefit from the better brake modulation. The current setup is definitely too short and upright. It makes handling worse and less confident.

  My view is the upright shorter posture is the intended characteristic of swept bars like this and attempting to bring the reach back out to what you were used to with drops/hoods is seriously uncomfortable because of the moderate amount of sweep.

  I believe there is a sweet spot to be found. After all, I am riding swept-back bars on my MTB and I love it. So much control and so comfortable. The bars on the MTB are much wider though.

  So I did some googling, math and photoshopping.
  On my MTB the distance from the saddle tip to the centre of the handlebars is approx 57cm.
  With 80cm wide bars that makes for a distance of 65.5cm from saddle tip to handlebar end.

  With the current setup on the Raleigh, I only have 52.5cm from the saddle tip to the centre of the handlebars and due to the generous back sweep of these bars, it's only 50cm from saddle tip to handlebar end.

  I have some older Trekking bars lying around. Ergotec Moonbars. They are a few cm wider and have a little bit less back sweep. These bars are easily available in silver 25.4mm for about £13. They would already increase the reach by a few cm. Paired with a longer stem they might do the trick. I would need a 120 or 130mm stem though and visually I think 100mm looks just right.

  Looking for alternatives I found the SimWorks get around bars. They are definitely more expensive but doing the math it seems like combined with my current 100mm stem would give me a very similar reach to the MTB. Saddle tip to centre approx 55.5cm and saddle tip to bar end 65.6cm.

  I did a quick mockup and that seems alright with me!

• Benana's bikes, attempts at frame building and bag making

  in Current Projects • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Love to watch some steel glueing. Subbed!