Heldring

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• Vittorio Aero - Columbus Air

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• Bike fit / correct riding position

  in General • 7 hours, 42 minutes

  

  Yea

  Thanks @amey @hippy

• Bike fit / correct riding position

  in General • 8 hours, 29 minutes

  

  Is it worth getting a €250 bike fit for a new (potentially custom) bike, even if the fit on the current bike feels good?

• Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

  in Bikes & Bits • 9 hours, 13 minutes

  

  Hey buurman, thanks! (please remove street info we both might get doxxed, you never know)

  Is the pink MTB with rack that's parked elsewhere in the street yours?

• Weight weenie dream tourer

  in Current Projects • 1 day, 6 hours

  

  Crazy build! But I'm interested to see how it'll work out. How are those calipers?

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

  in Current Projects • 1 day, 7 hours

  

  To be fair the wiring on this could've been much more tidy, with or without the Secula

• Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 day, 7 hours

  

  Thanks!

  Installing a coaster brake is pretty easy I'd say. I used a Shimano CB-E110 coaster hub, which has 110 mm spacing. You can take the hub apart pretty easily and add spacers to make it fit a frame up to 130 mm rear spacing without having to change the whole axle for a longer one (changing the whole axle is not very hard, the hard thing is finding a longer axle).

  Anyway, for this build I chose to space out the wheel symmetrically, because it seemed easier at the time. However, this causes the chainline to be pretty fucked, which is why I used alu spacers to bring in the chainring up front by 5 mm. I haven't measured but I'd say the chainline is pretty good right now. You could also space the hub in such a way that the chainline will be better, but then you'd have to dish the wheel to make up for the asymmetric spacing.

  Wheel specs: Dartmoor Shield 26" downhill rims, Shimano CB-E110 coaster hub on the rear and Shimano DH-C3000-3N-NT on the front, both laced with DT Swiss Alpine III spokes.

• Surly Troll - a tribute to Iohan Gueorguiev

  in Current Projects • 1 day, 8 hours

  

  Awesome bike and plan... the Troll is a great frameset. The current group looks pretty crisp!

• Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 day, 9 hours

  

  My daily

  

  (to be fair I only had the Carradice on because I had to bring it from A to B)

• GBP Guilty Bike Porn, So close to Pron

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 day, 9 hours

  

  Damn, amazing