vilms5000

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• Plane / Planes / Aircraft / Aeroplane / Airplane appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 7 hours, 55 minutes

  

  ^ twitching because it’s not 1/144 scale

• FS: Thomson, Tioga, Sidi, Magura, Syntace, Forks

  in Components, clothing and miscellany • 14 hours, 58 minutes

  

  That pic's a Cowchipper or am I missing something?
  edit Yup, seems to be: https://www.bikemonger.co.uk/salsa-cowch­ipper-13738-p.asp

  Interested if you have a Cowbell Deluxe! Cheers...

• Skateboarding

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 16 hours

  

  ^ schralp plus the odd invert? - YESSSS (I've got the yoga mat out, this is gonna hurt).

• Skateboarding

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 16 hours

  

  Ronnie Sandoval has 78a urethane in his joints: https://youtu.be/LNR7NyD04U8
  
  

• Jimalex’s 853 Crust Romanceur

  in Current Projects • 3 days, 2 hours

  

  Ulp. Does that Nitto Shaka have a UK stockist?

• Freebie 700 hubbrake wheels. taken.

  in Components, clothing and miscellany • 3 days, 5 hours

  

  (Am available to piss on bonfires, weddings, bar mitzvahs &c)

• Freebie 700 hubbrake wheels. taken.

  in Components, clothing and miscellany • 3 days, 5 hours

  

  Ah. Okay. I think this might be a problem: The teeth on the end of each hub suggest that these are used with a Shimano Nexave rollerbrake. The hubs in that wheelset are (unless I am totally mistaken) rear: 3-speed Nexus IGH, front: Power Modulator (which I think is a way to make the front rollerbrake more user-friendly when sudden force applied).

  So to get these working, you’re looking at getting two rollerbrakes and a frameset with fork/rear stay loops to attach the rollerbrake arm to. And non-turn washers for the dropouts too. Oh, and a bell crank and shifter to control the rear 3-speed!

  Of course, you could use these with rim brakes, but that defeats the point.

  That said, looks like it’s in really good shape - the Nexus 3 on the back is definitely worth having a play with.

• Freebie 700 hubbrake wheels. taken.

  in Components, clothing and miscellany • 3 days, 6 hours

  

  These look exactly like the wheels off a Giant Expression N3 (3-speed Nexus IGH).
  Interested to know what happened to the bike/rollerbrakes that were with these?

  (and also what @Qebrus is going to do with them) : )

• Jimalex’s 853 Crust Romanceur

  in Current Projects • 3 days, 6 hours

  

  Nice! I’ve got the rear end of a Dynatech (the cro-mo triangle) that I’ve been dithering about the Keirin flake over some sort of blue (the Raleigh blue is like an old British Leyland paint colour to my eye).
  Are you going to top coat it with anything else, or is that it?
  (as you keyed the surface but didn’t go back to the bare metal, it’s covered, right?)

• £10 bargains: Job lot of BMX parts + 700c halo wheelset

  in Components, clothing and miscellany • 4 days, 12 hours

  

  I’ll grab those wheels!
  Messaging.