vp1337

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• AlexD's modest array of bikes

  in Current Projects • 13 hours, 35 minutes

  

  Feel you, mini-Vs don't work well with 26" tbh. But on my 28" hybrid they are just glorious and I couldn't go back to cantis.
  Proper pads matter a lot though, Swiss is great, but my go-to method is Kool-Stop all the way.

• OWK’s stable - De Rosa / Geoffrey Butler / Soma / Ridley

  in Current Projects • 15 hours, 7 minutes

  

  What an absolute beast of a bike, makes me want to ride fixed again!

• vp1337's Ghetto Groad Grotto

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• Mini-smashers - kids bike escapades - Forme Calver Junior and Vitus Nucleus 24

  in Current Projects • 1 day, 17 hours

  

  You're an awesome dad. :) Fantastic bike!

• vp1337's Ghetto Groad Grotto

  in Current Projects • 1 day, 21 hours

  

  Thanks mate, me too!

  @oheyitsdrew
  Cheers, it's Tange MTB butted tubing. I'm quite a Marin fanboy so I'm biased towards saying you should not fight the temptation and just buy one!

  @si_mon628
  The 10 speed issue is no problem for me, to be perfectly honest after taking a ride at a local trail I realized I could've even stayed on 7 with a little wider range cassette...

  What I am actually temped by is the microSHIFT Acolyte 8s groupset, but it seems to be unavailable anywhere. It's so damn cheap I just have to try it some day.

  New page, so here's some pics:

  

  

  

• vp1337's Ghetto Groad Grotto

  in Current Projects • 2 days, 15 hours

  

  Cheers everyone!

  And now I have friction shifting.
  @si_mon628
  Following your comment I took the shifter apart, got two tiny little bearings out, then fiddled for about an hour trying to put everything back together, but I succeeded! Thanks for the idea a ton! Gonna go out for a test ride asap.

  Heads up, the disassembly wasn't quite easy, I managed to leave some permanent marks on the top cover, and I'm still not 100% sure if I re-assembled it correctly (the whole thing jumped apart after removing the cover plate), but it works without issues.

• Raleigh Romanceur

  in Current Projects • 2 days, 18 hours

  

  This is now officially one of my all-time favourite forum builds. With that new crankset it will look immensely awesome.

• vp1337's Ghetto Groad Grotto

  in Current Projects • 2 days, 19 hours

  

  Thanks! It is already quite back on the rails actually, vintage saddle design was sometimes strange. Keeping an eye open for a cheap C15, so it may look better.

• vp1337's Ghetto Groad Grotto

  in Current Projects • 2 days, 20 hours

  

  And a few more.

• vp1337's Ghetto Groad Grotto

  in Current Projects • 2 days, 20 hours

  

  Here we go!