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You can live with a black inline seatpost?
Very much non-bling but I rate the BBB skyscraper posts. Available in all the diameters and looks sleek. Barely visible logo acetones off.
If your really so inclined you could strip the anodisation quite easily too.

They don't come with springs?! That is indeed odd, all bolt on allen key skewers I got were with springs..

What's the fork? Looks like suitable a-c!
Cool biek indeed..

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/349130/?offset=175#comment17252971

We're discussing the same predicament at length on this thread. 119mm should be the correct axle length, but of course without guarantees!

Ok good! I wasn't aware they made 30mm throughout BBs. Also didn't pop up on my admittedly lazy Google.

Btw, I test fitted my crank this weekend and a 125mm is approx 8mm too long without BB spacers. I reckon the 119mm would be perfect, also regarding chainline.

Have you installed it yet? Am curious!

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Beautiful biek!
What's the story with the seatpost? Customised anodised or coated Thomson? Seem to be able to make out some vague logo-ing.

Hi,
I had a similar predicament. Solved it in theory, not in practice.
You need a bsa30 BB. Raceface and Truvativ do one, read bad things about Rotor but it's a bit cheaper. Also on Ali there are bbs, but you need the special tool for it, as I just found out this week. Then you need a 30mm wave washer and some spacers either for the 30mm axle or the BB.
My measurements showed I needed a 125mm axle and that's what I got. It gives you some spare mm to get the crankset bang in the middle.
This does mean your chainline goes out by +-8mm and q factor by 16mm compared to the standard 109mm axle.

And to finish. Wow, much want.
Best colourway too!
You wanna go silver hollowgram for the cranks?
The bb is bsc threaded right? Ask away in our PM convo, I have theoretically found a solution to be able to use one on a bsc bb.

Damn, looking at that link I now want a double disc fixed cadex. Like really.
Maybe even do 650b conversion with road ish tyres.
Ah well, let's get back to actually being able to ride a bike in anger.

In other news, my doctor told me today that I am actually not really cleared to ride a bike, not even after 4 effin' months. I'll just look out when dropping kerbs to do it one handed.

Thanks for the link!
Yes I had read about that too.
Unfortunately mine only has a removable drive side, not non-drive side.
Disc rear would indeed be preferred but this'll do. I also have my eyes on some of those parallel pull-deore xts you have on yours. But it rides, upgrades can come.

And strictly speaking need a black cassette. Have some already on my radar.

High praise coming from you!
Wipes tear from eye

Yes to panda. See that every black part meets a silver part? Also one of the reasons I want to get rid of the saddle with its black rails..

..Tom innit?! I'll slide in your DMs these days. Read about Oxford and kids and been a wee while.

I recently became susceptible to the BMX aesthetic. Missed that in my yoof I reckon. And find me a 40mm 25.4 stem that's not a BMX one. Also, 10 euros incl. post.

Are you sure the praxis takes 30mm on both ends? I believe they take 28mm at the non driveside...

Due to an elbow injury I set about building a bike for needed comfort and something to do whilst I was at home recovering.
It's a bit of monstrosity, but I like it. My take on a klunker and always wanted to have a cadex.
The fork is aftermarket 400mm a-c disc that I had lying around.
Only things I want to change is probably getting the handlebar higher with some kind of extender and another saddle. Unfortunately the gobi I got for it was lost in the post.

As I maybe a bit garbled-mindedly stated, my in practice unproven measurements showed I need a 125mm axle for it to fit with a bsc30/bsa30 BB.
I believe the Raceface ones are best, have read bad things about the Rotor one.
I ended up with an aliexpress one.
It might work with the 119mm axle; I'ld try it anyway. But do get a 30mm spring wave washer for the driveside, it gives some wiggle room to get the preload right.

I like the change to be able to center the crank in the shell. I have seldomly installed a crankset that didn't need some kind of spacing to get it right. But that might also be the fault of my home mechanics

That's the 119mm axle judging by the colour?
I have a hollowgram crank earmarked for a project. I measured I needed a 125 axle (orange one) with some change for a bsa frame with bsa30/bsc30 BB and spring washer. But it might work in your situation with the shorter axle.

I did this, changing the freehub. Cost me 15 euros. Wasn't able to fully center the rear wheel due to corroded nipples but it was good enough. Looking very well that biek!

Not trying to excuse antisemitism btw, before somebody starts waving that stick at me.

The fact btw that a majority of the influx of recent mid 2010 refugees is Muslim from the region with a history of beef with Israel, and one of the largest Palestinian diaspora outside of the region is in Berlin, gives them maybe some ground to be extra critical of recent events.
The largest Turkish community outside of Turkey is also in Berlin. And they too are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause..

A small example, my 30 y/o barber is a descendant of Nakba refugees to Syria, that fled Syria during the civil war to not be enlisted after the Syrian regular army retook his town and killed some family members in the process. Some intergenerational personal experience of war and conflict right there...

I went off topic again didn't I..

I live around the corner where the biggest German protests, and admittedly confrontations with authorities, against the Gaza invasion were. Mind you, they were verboten, hence also stronger police response. Framed masterfully as antisemitic, "Jew hating" by the right wing press. The old "any criticism of Israel is antisemitism" tactic.
It's all very ironic though. Have you read the news that Masha Gessen, a Jewish American Russian journalist was denied the ceremony for her Hannah Arendt Prize due to an article on the Gaza invasion in the New Yorker? Surreal stuff, here's Mehdi Hassan's interview with them (preferred pronoun stuff)
https://youtu.be/O2sCtPCRj-U?si=Q_6t3aIKbyXcJZhR

But this all a bit off topic, should go the Israel Palestine thread.

...well it's a reality test for the Dutch. Apologies won't make the societal and political reality go away though. I still keep my fingers crossed Wilders is not able to form a coalition anyway. He'ld very much be the Dutch Trump with the blonde perm and all.

I left a long time ago to the greener/greyer pastures of Berlin. Now we got the modern brown shirts lining up here too FFS. And they gained much faster traction than in the Netherlands; a 15-20% of the vote right wing populist has been on the ballot since the early 2000s.