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A few really superficial reasons mainly. My wife wants the gross 'tea and coffee' colour Kaffenback. She liked the green surly which I also like. I prefer the straighter top tube. Useful rear drop outs. Also I'm more likely to be able to try out a surly.

I was meant to be buying a Kaffenback frame to swap components on to from a too-big Fuji. Am some how now considering buying a straggler frame instead and need help justifying extra cost to my wife (will be main user).

Any help from owners appreciated on easily digestible, sound bitey plus points.

Do quite like your idea of just chucking the calipers overboard like an anchor, though.

You know what, I completely overlooked that it's a different pull travel (or whatever) for each brake. I think as long as I can get the rear brake to offer any sort of slowing effect, I'll be happy. I only ever use a rear in conjunction with a front brake, so it's not vital.

Surely a sign saying "DANGER, beware of cyclists when turning your lorry" would have been better?

I reckon you worded that right - i get what you mean. I'd kind of not bothered with the rear brake as i need to pick up some new blocks anyway. So you mean i need some of the spacers on the inner side of the arms in order that the arms sit further apart?

I think i also need to take some links out of the chain - i don't feel like there's enough tension there, which is possibly why the chain's slipping. Either that or i need a new cassette :-/

Sorrrrry for the dredge, but is this still available, before I put up a wanted ad?

I get almost the opposite a lot (with mostly older people!) - someone listening to you talking whilst nodding and making the appropriate noises. Then they ask a question that you'd already supplied the answer to a second ago, had they actually been following you.

Pretty much there now. Sold the campag wheels as no braking surface and wrong OLD at the back. Bought some new wheels for less than I sold the others, bought a new avid single digit so I could stop. The rear u-brake is utterly useless, but now I have a front wheel that I can actually lock up, which is a first for me!

Gears need adjustment. Never done gears before so it's all new to me - it's slipping on the smaller cogs, but I'll have a muck around and see where it gets me. I need to pick up some levers and a seperate shifter I think as currently I've got ugly combos as both levers, despite only having rear gears. I also forgot I didn't have an appropriate stem, having thrown the one I had in mind out, stupidly. The placeholder road stem gives a very odd riding position!

Anyway, it'll do for now. It's pretty ugly looking, which I think I was hoping for :-)

Cheers. We were about a foot away from not being ok. Daughter completely oblivious, naturally, probably just wondering what those funny words Daddy's shouting out mean.

Punishment pass from a massive truck, while i'm cycling with my 21 month old daughter on my bike.
What the actual fuck?

I'll let someone local take it, but yes Bristol could do with fewer pirates and more space invaders!

I would absolutely have this if I was anywhere near you. GLWS

What was it about my post that made you think I was being sarcastic?

:-)

It looks like a classic bit of solving a problem that doesn't exist. Other than 'it's a problem my bike doesn't look like it was airbrush italo disco sleeve art from the mid 80s'

ours also have in built safety features that mean it's pretty hard to accidentally electrocute yourself with one. Hard, but not impossible, apparently...

I ended up cutting it - was easy enough and I managed not to make a pigs ear of it. Actually I did put one spacer in as the locknut didn't fit with its little plastic seal/washer without one.

Couldn't find any forks for buttons or free so resorted to buying the cheapest I could find on eBay. They're gross, but the purple is growing on me. Need to chop the steerer a little, which I assume I'll cock up. frame has been rattle canned and laquered to a pretty piss poor standard. All going as planned so far!

Thought i'd re-locate our chat to here before incurring thread-wrath :-)

I do most of my work in photoshop, with a wacom tablet - i've made set of digital brushes to give me the result i'm after - scratchy textures with not much anti-aliasing. It's a convenience thing mainly - i love using a pencil and eraser (the latter almost as much as the former) and i love screen printing, but i don't really have the time to drop 5+ hours on a drawing these days!

Got a very much in progress site up here, which has some pencil stuff:

https://alexdimond.myportfolio.com

Photoshop collage inspired? not sure what you mean, but thanks!
Surprised there's not a current illustratey/drawey/paintey type thread on here.

Or am effectively confessing my poor searching skills (just to keep the chat on-topic!)

https://www.instagram.com/alexhdimond/

Probably more photos of record sleeves than drawings at the moment though :-)

I live in Bristol. We're all just bitter, displaced Londoners here.

Amazing.

I once called Terry Christian a cunt (randomly saw him at Euston station). Felt instantly guilty, but I think overall he deserved it.

Good tip, cheers. I'll see how I get on - might be a potential future upgrade.

Beater quality photo of beater cranks. They're actually really nice! The off-side was all corroded and flakey so I sanded it back and re-sprayed (hence masking). Pedal ain't budging, but I managed to service the bearings and it's not too bad.

Shame about the red bolts - all I had. Suppose it makes it look a bit more bad-ass or something.