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what a shame... such a nice frame otherwise!

Bike box available for pickup in Kew Tw9, until it rains!

ah yes, that makes sense. wicked frame.

Just out of curiosity... is this a 26" MTB frame? I'm confused because of the massive tyre clearance, missing brake bosses rear and what looks like a 1 1/8" steerer?

Either way, very cool looking and generous give-away!

Thanks All for your suggestion and offers! I have sent them to her, although I suspect she is looking for something more resembling a regular bike. Less... LFGSS-ish, if you know what I mean?

Thanks that's helpful! I will forward her a link to that.

My new commuter... fast & functional!

I know it's a long shot! But I thought I'd give this a weekend bump...

Dear Forum,

trying to help out a friend who had her bike stolen yesterday (bastards!), and she needs one to get to work every day....

Does anybody have a cheap or free (or in exchange for a forum donation) bike they want to get rid of? Should be something practical, medium or small in size, can be in need of some TLC. Best would be London South-West or central, but could also travel a bit further for something suitable!

Many thanks in advance!

Did you actually run this without a front brake?

Oh man, this would be seriously cool with thick tyres, drop bars and 1xsomething...

Just what we need, second dibs please! Could collect tonight e.g.

Thanks all for your ideas, a shimano skewer fixed the issue. Awesome stuff!

Ah interesting. Makes me wonder if Shutter Precision make an old fashioned solid axle for the hub, seems like the perfect retrograde fix.

What about the anti-theft ones which you open with an allen key? Are those strong?

Ah cheers, will try that! All the ones I used were external cam ones...

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Dear Forum,

disc breaks are dead? I wish!

These particular ones have a very significant problem. Everytime I use the front break to break stongly, the wheel gets misaligned so badly that the breaks rub and squeal like hell. I mean it's so bad that you can see the tyre is visibly closer to one fork blade and the bike no longer tracks straight. I then need to open the QR and pop the wheen back into both drop outs.

Any ideas why this is? It's as if the skewers don't grip and the disc break just levers the wheel out of alignment. I tried different front wheels, different skewers, tightented the skewers with all the power I have and religned the calipers 1000 times (but it's clearly nothing to do with the caliper alignement, it's the entire wheel).

I'm thinking the dropouts are somehow too slippery. The fork is an early Surly Karate Monkey, the hub is a new SP dyno with industrial bearings, so no movement from there for sure. The rotors are 180mm, calipers are Magura hydraulics. See pics. One also shows the drop outs with the skewers removed.

Is this a known problem with Surly forks? The dropouts not knurled enough? Are the skewers too weak? Should I ditch the damn discs and get a nice set of V's?

Help me please! Thanks!

Thanks, sounds encourging! Does it matter how much silver is in the rods? The ones from ebay that I showed have 55%

That makes sense, thanks. I'll report on how this goes!

Thanks for your answer, you make amazing bikes :)

If I actually needed this bike I would probably let a pro do it, but I don't, so I won't... this is mostly an experiment.

What do you mean by "let the flame melt the steel"? I would have thought you try to get the steel hot so that the steel melts the silver, and not the flame melts the silver? Did I get this totally wrong?

Cheers!

@Hulsroy 's Condor is making me do this...

(This is so nice...)

I would like to do something similar to an old 531 Raleigh frame that I have. First action would be to braze canti studs on the seat stays and move the seat stay bridge up to get clearance for 32s.

I have a metal workshop at work that I can use for making the canti studs fit nicely, but the part that is new to me is the brazing (really want to learn this).

From what I understand, the easiest way to get into this would be a MAPP gas torch and silver solder.

My question is, would this be strong enough for the canti mounts?

I am thinking about this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Profire-Bottle-Disposable-Cylinder-plumbers/dp/B07D5Z7JRT/ref=asc_df_B07D5Z7JRT/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310135442117&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=393475781599789051&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006886&hvtargid=pla-700336005838&psc=1

and this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175533730559?hash=item28dea02aff:g:AwoAAOSwbWZaXNwz&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoBrsW5L0cJl2UM4pa5Ct9HOI8ihKIX7%2Bsn2n8AzviJ5OCyg0AGKoxn4SQrJqpqpb62wvyASyuRzZsSZEYmEKx7CKWySuQyE0ZIruuOqH86AwO0jkNu6tbPuF0ow%2Bv8gXaBjP3oivA0M0jSj63oOVgMg4oCOIiGJ0a5qGiVtaGKyVUb6%2BtMxk8dz1OvgnjN5URlYDwSI4E7wKLUQ42WNCLzw%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6bC3b-zYQ

Would this get me going?

Any input much appreciated! Thanks in advance!!

So glad this found a home and even got a thread! What happened to the carbon fork it was listed with?

Neve seen such either but they look well done!

With proper bars & saddle this would make a really nice bike:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185690801088?hash=item2b3c08c3c0:g:7DUAAOSwQwFjkuEg&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoBF4o502LkJjtr5a5vXaWp4vVVmhbHy1mCgt5sa53ImM4ZslPVqMUsYbMAv77Thmo3s8yzCMzp1ThBKGHSidTxSQ5pPj3Med0gN0Dyb2vEcK9TwxjEFjnJknoVZ%2BSik93gKN0pMjM3BLKS6TsTN8mKkisuiSBmzaSnJwAcGrMJJw3tuJ85sr0NxiEr88S%2Bn%2BHrE4eye95cpMeBuH34VZ%2Fsw%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_DwqLyjYQ