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The IKEA chopping board is such a great material for hacks. I use it as a removable stiffener to give shape to my massive Carradice. This is especially useful for when I have to pack the Carradice flat when travelling.

This is one of my favourite photos from a recent work trip to Boston.
Minolta Hi-Matic F on basic Kodak Gold 200

Woah! I love getting new tools. Congratulations on the bargain.

Oh, yes this is done. Let me close this. Thanks again @retrodicorsa!

That semi-rat is very rad.

Don't tempt me! Seems like the add is inactive

For a DIY job I want to smooth out the welds on a fork. I was wondering if there is some kind of filler I can apply and then sand down. I saw Spray.Bike is offering Frame Builder's Smoothing Putty. Will that work or is it likely to fall off over time due to flex in the material?

That is soooo cool! With those forks as well.
Shame it's pick up only. I am not really local.

XA, Gold

Great combo, love those colours!

Hey Giovanni,
I might be interested in the ti seat post.
Can be shipped to Austria or Germany if that makes things easier.
Waiting for pictures.

You can also get these Ti ones from Spa Cycles.

I love those disc mods! Also fun to see a VSF frame from close to home <3

It seems like the silver foil around those Lomography films does offer some protection. This is another film I brought back from the US that went through an x-ray but wasn't damaged.
That being said. I am just returning from a round trip to Vienna, London, Boston and back and managed to get my films hand-checked at every airport.

Vienna - LomoChrome Color ’92 shot on a Rollei 35

Hm, yeah I can see how that is the premium solution. Not quite sure though I want to drill that frame or do even bigger adjustments that would ruin the paint job. Not worth it for the rear light in my opinion.
I also have the cable guides for the front derailleur which are not in use. Maybe I can utilise them.

Just managed to get my film hand checked at the airport. They called a special security guy. He told me it should be safe according to the manufacturer but still agreed. Did the explosives test.
So seems like it’s still worth asking.

Next up on the to-do list for this bike is wiring a rear dynamo power light. I already got the colour-matching merchandise, courtesy of Fairlight. I just need to figure out a clean way of routing the cable. I bought one of these DI2 stick-on cable guides and current thinking is going below the down tube.

I just got a recommendation for a video on YouTube.
All the open and abandoned plotlines in GOT.
And it properly annoyed me so here is a dump of updates to tie some knots to loose ends before starting something new.

My life has been very much all over the place for a few months. My partner and I went separate ways and I jumped at every opportunity to not be at home. I had quite a few work trips coming up so that worked out well and in a lot of cases I was able to connect work with leisure, seeing lots of friends and having little adventures. Lived in Berlin for a month, had a few weekends packed with cycling back in the UK, rode some pristine gravel in Spain and been to America twice. One time riding mountain bikes around Tucson Arizona. Might post some pictures in here another time.

When I went home for Christmas (gosh time flies) I took those metal plates with me to finish the front rasket mount for the Marin. I rounded those sharp corners, sanded, primed and spray painted the fixings et voila neat and stable rasket on the Marin.

Also waiting at my parents was a first batch Stridsland Anchor bar for me to bring back home.
Against Stridsland's plea I had to shorten them though 840mm didn't get me through any doors at my apartment.
Finally, I replaced the trigger shifter with a thumbie and wiggled on my favourite ESI grips.
I feel like it really rounded things up and this bike is pretty much my go-to daily ride around town at the moment.

When they are new they are wrapped in some silver plastic foil. Not sure if that has any protective characteristics.

Okay, coming back to that dreadful roll of Lomography Metropolis on the previous page (LINK). I went back to my photoguy today to drop off some film and asked him about his opinion. He immediately asked me whether I had taken it on a plane.
I read about the danger of X-rays and CTs in airports but never had any actual trouble with it. I thought it was more of a snobby thing professional photographers or hipsters talk about. A few of my films went through multiple airport scans without causing any (to me visible) trouble or artefacts.
My photoguy coincidently used to work for Lomography and pointed something out I didn't pay attention to at all.
Lomography film spools and cartridges are made of plastic. Your regular Kodak Gold and many others have metal cartridges which makes them a lot more resistant to any X-ray or CT damage.
So it seems like I fried that film already when I bought it in the States and brought it bag with me in my luggage.

Yeah, I was just told that direct mount fm is a thing. What a fuckery.

seems I ordered a 180mm instead of a 160)

Afaik there are no rotor specific callipers. It’s all about how they are mounted.
I believe you bought an IS brake to go an a flat mount fork. Instead you should have a flat mount brake with a 160mm adapter/mounting plate. It would be very strange choice for such a modern spendy frame to have an IS brake in the front and FM in the rear.

Looks like a postcard <3

Uhhh that second one is sooo good!

That sounds outrageously good. Please make it happen!

Two examples of the greyish images.