vpCogworks

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• Photo Heavy Love Story to an XO-4

  in Current Projects • 1 day, 15 hours

  

  Bloody hell I'm jelous of this already. Can't wait to see more.

• Current Projects chat and miscellany

  in Current Projects • 1 day, 21 hours

  

  What a cool bike that is, never seen this tubeset before. Gonna go with yellow bar tape? :P

• Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 days, 21 hours

  

  QR and single speed don't always play together nicely, I had major issues with axle slipping with a previous build. Although with properly knurled steel QR faces it should be no issue.

• Jokke_A's endless stream of projects

  in Current Projects • 4 days, 11 hours

  

  Awesome, looks like a proper snow shredding monster!

• Ghetto Groad Grotto

  in Current Projects • 6 days, 10 hours

  

  Things escalated in a rapid manner and now I own a bike with roller brakes - which will be the lockup steed after all. Not gonna post much content of this one as it's probably the most boring bike I've ever had - it's very functional though. Haven't done anything on it besides some minor tweaks and installing my new lock that I intended for the Marin...

  Speaking of the Marin, it remains as is until spring comes I guess.
  Need to figure out the N-1 now, have sold some parts already to reduce the strain on my wallet...

• Ghetto Groad Grotto

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• fka Splat's That (some Kuwaharas), copper plated Stayer OMG, RockHopper step-thru, Pipedream Alice

  in Current Projects • 1 week

  

  This is going to be proper fantastic, love this paint job a lot!

• Tijmen's Bikes and Related Projects

  in Current Projects • 1 week

  

  Excellent, both the bag and the bike.

• Off grid house build Orkney

  in Current Projects (non-bike) • 1 week, 1 day

  

  Love those lampshades. Utterly cool.

• Ghetto Groad Grotto

  in Current Projects • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Further downgrades. Never thought I'd run out of sealed crankset hex bolts but it seems I was wrong. Oh well.
  I've bought a Tranzx anti-theft QR skewer set, so hopefully I won't be dealing with a missing wheel (or two) overnight, albeit I was told they can quite easily be opened with pliers. Kinda wish I kept the original Araya VX400 wheelset that came with the bike. Anyways, I'm gonna use the combination of a ring lock, a chain and a U-lock, so hopefully the sheer sight of those will deter thieves.

  I'm still amazed by the original drivetrain of this bike, 42-32-20T chainrings with a 11-19T cassette. Had to fully fasten the B-screw on the rear derailleur to barely clear the current 13-26T cassette's small cogs, so I'm gonna get another cassette soon (of course I just gave the original one away a couple of months ago).