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picture not working btw
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I'll take the plugs, pm coming
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Shimmed stems look terrible and custom is spendy.
Too true. I've been looking out for decent options for months and they are few and far between... Apparently the stem on the Tommasini above is a shimmed Extralite Hyperstem, which is winnimg so far (although fucking expensive). It's also partly to do with the headset.
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Didn't know about them, thanks : )
I think basically it'll be up to the framebuilder to advise about what's possible and what's not. I'm hoping it's doable but it's not the end of the world if it's not.
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Have you seen the Crust Romanceur?
It's 1" threaded steerer and has disc brakes and people seem to be thrashing those about without issue.Hadn't heard of them before, cheers : )
I think basically it'll be up to the framebuilder to advise what's possible and what's not... It would be great to have better brakes but it's not the end of the world if I can't. -
Re. discs from the little i know that could be a lot of stopping power for a 1" steerer and internal routing may be an issue on skinny tubes
Didn't think of that - does anyone know about these things?
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Out of interest what would you change about the Roberts frame?
Mainly the clearances and the rear dropouts.
I like to run guards in the winter and there's only enough room for 23's when I do.
The rear dropouts are horizontal and I would prefer vertical.
cheers man, yeah saw that on Varonha's instagram (or somewhere). It's a lovely bike but hopefully mine will be a bit less gentlemanly : )
Anyway, this whole thing has been put on ice for the foreseeable; I'm self-employed so I need to see how things are looking after the shitstorm before I start committing loads of cash to fun things like this.
But I did get a chance to visit Winston before everything kicked off, and as a result decided that if this project happens at all it will be happening with him. I love how enthusiastic he is about frame building, and how disinterested he is in marketing.
We discussed a few things - he persuaded me that internal routing makes the frame more susceptible to corrosion so should probably be avoided.
He showed me the difference between a fork blade that can take disc brakes and one that can't; the former being a bit chunkier and (if I remember correctly) only comes with a rake as opposed to as a straight blade. So I have to think again about aesthetics vs function, which is my least favourite thing to think about.
He also showed me how he modernises the Nervex seat lug to take a modern bolt, and that he already has the correct topeyes.
So, good to meet the man himself, and felt like good progress... but then the apocalypse happened.