lmananimal

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• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 days, 13 hours

  

  Week 1 on the omnomnom is complete:

• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 8 hours

  

  Almost every working Omnium in London has 406 rim on the front. Tyres are wider, better quality and more readily available. A lot of the time your view of the front tyre will be obscured and I think a fat tyre is a bit of insurance against smashing into a pothole, drain cover etc. with a load of weight more or less directly on top of the wheel.

  I wanted a completely matching pair of rims and gave up as the only options I found was Sun Rhyno Lite (36h only front),or Velocity Dyad or Cliffhanger, which would have been hideously expensive as BLB are the ‘distributor’ and charge you the shipping on top...

• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 4 days, 10 hours

  

  That’ll do the job (that bike looks rad btw). Can do some trimming if it won’t play nicely with the forks.

  Where can I order from? My google skills are failing me.

• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 5 days, 9 hours

  

  Which mudguard will work for a 2.15 tyre on an Omnium fork? Currently have this thing installed to stop the brake hose rubbing on the tyre when turning. I assume the front wheel is going to spray water directly at my feet when it rains? (Friday).

• Anyone know anything about disc brakes?

  in Mechanics & Fixin' • 5 days, 9 hours

  

  Sram shifter and shimano brake lever don’t look too bad together + really comfortable:

• Soma 1 1/8” disc fork

  in Components, clothing and miscellany • 5 days, 11 hours

  

  A2c and rake measurements please.

• Omnomnom

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• Omnomnom

  in Current Projects • 6 days, 14 hours

  

  1st day of work done:

• Hulsroy's Hustle

  in Current Projects • 1 week

  

  I just built my Omnium with 32 / 11-28 (10 speed) and it seems fine for London. Traded off some low end for closer ratios because big jumps are quite unpleasant when carrying weight.

  I would prob braze the bits for the FD though to keep options open. If I ever want to venture further afield I will have to add quite a lot of ugly things to enable +1 front cog.

• Omnomnom

  in Current Projects • 1 week, 1 day

  

  Now it’s weighed down with more parts and many inner tubes the high gear is actually perfect.

  I’m waiting on the rear guard to arrive and need to trim a small amount of length from both brake hoses then will take some good photos before it gets scratched to shit.