jontea

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• Which Tyres?

  in Bikes & Bits • 14 hours, 30 minutes

  

  Are you racing on them?
  Yes, 25mm max.
  No, fit the biggest tyre that'll go in your f/f.
  Easy peasy.

• Road fixed / fixed road

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 day

  

  Maybe a shorter stem, and brake levers down a fair bit.
  I use the TRP rrl levers, I find them very comfortable, and with the reach widget fitted have no problems reaching the lever when "in the drops", I don't have particularly big hands either.

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

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

  in Current Projects • 2 days, 10 hours

  

  Yeah, clearance around the calipers, zeppelins are nice, got em in 700c flavour.

  @Josh cheers.

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

  in Current Projects • 2 days, 10 hours

  

  Tektro r559 lonnnng drop calipers.

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

  in Current Projects • 3 days, 3 hours

  

  I need to get to work. I like your thinking though.

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

  in Current Projects • 3 days, 4 hours

  

  Cheers for the info. Looks like they'll be going back then.
  Which leaves me with four options (in no particular order of preference).

  1. Velo Orange 650b x 50mm snakeskin
     
  2. Velo Orange 650b x 52mm zeppelin
     
  3. Not run mudguards at all, and put the 48mm tyres back on
     
  4. Ask Winston to put canti mounts on f/f, respray, buy some cantis from somewhere, and run 48mm tyres with mudguards.
     
• The Two Bicycles of Varonha. Or, Jontea's blah blah blah.

  in Current Projects • 4 days, 1 hour

  

  May have hit a bit of a stumbling block regards GB mudguards, the front seems to be perfect, lovely radius without any manipulation, the rear on the other hand is too tight front of tyre to back, so needs re-radiusing outwards, which is achieved by pinching in along it's length, which would be fine if it measured 50mm along it's entire length out the packet, but it does not, 50mm at both ends for about 100mm, then nips in to about 45mm for the rest, leaving no room for manoeuvre width wise.
  Gonna have to give SJS a call tomorrow, but looking at stock it seems I got the last pair of 50mm guards. Bit irritated.
  Have also swapped stems over today, put on a 100mm, +6°, feels a lot comfier having the bars higher, and marginally nearer (reach wise).
  So when @Biggles567 is ready to make me a stem I know what I'm gonna have.

  Swings and roundabouts kinda of a day bike wise.

• Josh's bikes

  in Current Projects • 4 days, 6 hours

  

  That rear valve has to be about 1kg on it's own!
  Nice bike.

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

  in Current Projects • 5 days, 8 hours

  

  Ta, loving it.
  Yeah,venturemax bars aren't the best of lookers, but they were comfy for me,just thought I'd give these a go.
  May order VO rando bar too, just to see how they feel.