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Go to uni. Get a proper degree, get a couple of years of experience and then volunteer with someone like VSO instead of pissing around being in the way like most of those red-trousered posh cnuts trying to fill-out their CV.

ftfy

I loved it at first but now can't unsee the rear brake cable routing :(

Fuck me. And to add insult to injury, to come back with the Free World build thread as your

only crystal clear memory past 03 June 2011.

I hope you're on the mend soon, don't know what else to say. Shit got real in this thread the last couple of days...

BB is sold for good, sorry Appleyard!

What sort of lacquer is it? If it's alcohol based, use alcohol, etc.

Sure, will post abroad if mrgumby changes his mind; might have to change a quid or two more if postage is more expensive but I think EU shipping is pretty cheap.

It's a nice stem, isn't it? It was always a bit too long for me but I avoided admitting it as long as possible ... Fred Salmon make a few good gems in the rough, actually.

Astonishingly ugly aero bars, but the rest is just lovely. Just have to use them the whole time so no-one can see. I love this sort of stuff!

Bike rationalised slightly, with some inspiration from Cinelli Mash, BMW Gangsta Track, various Surlys, and a Mercian or two:

Now with a higher BB and correspondingly slightly shorter chainstays (still with clearance for 35 tyres and mudguards), 73deg seat tube and 73.5deg HT for a trail of 55mm, which should be nippy but not too twitchy (decided that 45 was too little unless I had a front rack). And now with chainring and sprocket for verisimilitude.

(have also decided to shorten the top tube because the results the Competitive Cyclist calculator seems way out of whack with the 58/59cm OTP frames that should fit me. 620mm is looong...)

Maybe I'll rein it in a bit, bump the trail up to 55 or something. Potentially doing lots of experimental stuff is not terribly bright, especially as my precision eyeball building technique cannot guarantee that it won't go even further the wrong way and end up twitchy as fuck.

Don't see why a longer wheelbase should help at lower speeds though, surely it's more of a high speed stability / lower maneuverability tradeoff? I've also decided to go for longer (easier to find) cranks despite enjoying my 140mm experiment, so need to hoick up the BB a bit, good catch.

(edit) PS: thanks for your opinion, it really does help - I know it seems a bit silly to design a bike to fit me, then ask other people what they think, but this is my first scratch-built geometry (just copied a Surly for the last one).

Travel agent reserved pending payment

Everything now half price.

I've now updated my design to fit my measurements, which are:

Inseam 86 0mm
Trunk 64 0
Forearm 390
Arm 70 0
Thigh 54 0
Lower leg 580
Ground to sternal notch 1510
Height 1800

I used the Competitive Cyclist fit calculator. I've used the 'French Fit' because although I do want to be fast and sporty etc., it's a lot easier to make a more touring fit sporty than make a very aggressive fit comfy for long journeys (which I intend to do from time to time)

That yielded an effective ST length of about 590mm, and an effective TT length of about 620mm. When I adjusted for the compact geometry, this is what I came up with:

Anyone notice any fatal sizing / geometry errors?

Thanks!
Ben

Edit: seems like a big gap between front wheel and the frame; think that's because of the relatively high stack of the On-One Smoothie headset I'm thinking of using. It's a MTB headset really, but I like the needle bearings to offset the instability of the short trail

Seems clever for about two seconds, then you realise that absolutely everything with it is wrong.

Owner only cares about the bits (s)he can see:

Go to Pieminister in the covered market, it's the mutt's nuts (I recommend the Heidi Pie). And Red Star if you're down the Cowley Road.

I'm also selling some bits if anyone in Oxford's interested - http://www.lfgss.com/thread105726.html

You have literally just beaten me to making a thread like this - I'm about to start my second bamboo bike but am in exactly the same position re. exams.

I wrote up a bit of a mini-guide for a friend who was making one as well - I can send it you if you PM me your email.

Ah, thanks for the seatpost hints. Really pretty concept totally wasted on those two commercial versions ;) I may try to make a layback post with a very short stem and some thick-walled stainless tubing...

All gone, thanks guys

A few bits to sell to convert bike bits to food:

Fred Salmon Racing alloy 1" threadless stem (not too common, no need for a shim). Machined silver alloy, 135mm long, and 7deg rise, 25.4mm bars. Nice laser etched logo. Several cosmetic scratches and scuffs and a little discoloration on the flat surfaces and bolts. Also see second photo for what might be a manufacturing defect, or where a previous owner has pried it open for some reason (to try to ram a 9/8" steerer in maybe). I've got a 1" Aheadset top cap as well if you want it.


(SOLD PENDING PAYMENT)

Dia Compe bar end brake lever, left hand side (for the left hand side of bull-horns, or the right side of moustache bars). Good as new except for box wear, never mounted. Comes with the shim for different bar sizes / tape.

(SOLD PENDING PAYMENT)

Problem Solvers Travel Agent. Very clever gadget that lets you use non-linear pull brakes with a linear pull lever (eg. V-brakes with road levers). Bought it to increase the pull for a drum brake, but had more luck just changing the cable routing, so took it off again. Nearly new apart from a little rub where the cable goes. Can also be used as a pulley instead of a noodle to reduce brake sticking.

(SOLD)

Miche Primato bottom bracket. 107mm, ISO square taper, British thread. Great adjustable bottom bracket that allows you to get the chainline absolutely perfect. Installs with a Campagnolo sprocket tool, or two to make it much easier. Bought the wrong size so it's new apart from the wear of putting it into my bike, swearing at it and taking it back out again.

(SOLD)

I'm in Oxford so you can knock off £1 if you're local and can pick it up, otherwise I'll have to post (sorry).

Dibs by PM, payment by money transfer (preferable) or Paypal.

I've got one, the right-angle version without adjuster, black, with light wear where the cable rubs on the spool, tenner posted?

It's like a cockpit spot the difference, fun that.

Managed to squinch the end off my middle finger getting it trapped between my chain and the chainring on my first ever fixed gear... a good lesson unnecessarily learnt in person. Finger and thumbs take bloody ages to heal - it was something like three weeks before it stopped splitting open every now and then.

Love this video. Couldn't believe that the flex in the frame didn't make it drop the chain or just break in half altogether.

This one is a custom integrated one, but does anyone make seatposts with this sort of clamp? Wouldn't be too hard to knock one up with an old stem, I expect.

Here you go, don't know why I didn't just do this before:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:19MigfRStiUJ:http://www.tedjamesdesign.com/contact/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk