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Unfortunately I dont have a dremmel to my disposal, could resort to hard work hacksaw method. If penetration oil doesnt succeed I will think about my options.

#2, is my favorite and #3 and #4 are my least.

I have heard good things regarding Plusgas. Just need to wait for this snowmageddon to pass over and I might be able to get some delivered.

Went for an excellent pedal to a bothy on the tatty one, the countryside is a weird place.

Been having a think and the scruffy one seems like the logical one to keep, mostly as I probably have a guaranteed buyer for the nice one. Plus scruffyness might encourage a sweet rattlecan paint job to jazz it up a little.

Wheel will hopefully be built over the weekend.

This now leaves me with the next task which is to remove the seatpost. Has anybody had any luck with releasing products like Shock & Unlock?

If I am being overly optimistic I will just give it to the seatpost wizard and hopefully magic will happen.

First off I am going to look at consolidating my Surly Steamrollers. This stemmed originally from one of those eBay moments when there is too much commitment to buying something. What resulted was me purchasing two frames in the same week, one was ratty the other was nice. The original plan was to always sell one however almost a year has passed and they are now both built up much, to my girlfriends dismay. Here they are currently:

The ratty one that I ride almost everyday and do fun things on.

And the clean one that I rarely ride.

With the recent acquisition of another frame early this year the selling plan has been resurrected for monetary and flat space purposes. The plan is two will become one, get some upgrades and free up some parts and money to get the next build underway.

First big decision, which frame to keep...

The nice one is nice, has mudguard mounts and decals. The ratty one is a bit scuffed, doesn't have mudguard mounts or decals and has the seat post seized in it. I will have a go at it myself following Sheldon Browns wisdom steps. Should that fail, there is apparently a local seat post releasing wizard so worse case scenario will hopefully be paying him some money.

Do I sell the nice one, get more money,  release the seat post and possibly attempt a sporty rattlecan DIY paint job. Or use the nice one, and sell the tatty one for less, either with the post in place or go through the hassle of releasing it pre sale? 

There are bits that can be done in the meantime. As rim brakes are dead and pretty lack luster offroad at the best of times I am binning the road caliper and upgrading to a disk brake. This means that I also need to upgrade the fork and front hub. I have a Lynskey Endurance fork that I bought off facebook and currently getting an Alpkit Love Mud dynamo (eBay) built into an Open Pro (also eBay). I also have an old Avid disk brake in the parts box that hopefully still works.

Last things I need is the light which will probably be a Supernova E3 Pro 2 and a non dynamo disk hub to be built into my current wheel for when I don't want dynamo lighting.

Last year I had a couple of ideas for projects that I wanted to do. I really needed a do everything fixed that I could tear about on in the mud and strap bags too. I also wanted a geared adventure bike for when fixed offroad would be no fun because of big hills or big miles. I sold my Genesis Day 1 which I was never happy with and bought a Steamroller and I built a Pompetamine with some gears and risers. For the most part they were successful and I have enjoyed many miles on these bikes. However I got a little carried away, fell down the eBay worm hole and ended up buying a few extra frames. In all this excitement a lot of attention and moneys got diverted away from actually finishing these projects and general maintenance for existing bikes. 2018 has brought a New Years resolution of no more new bikes and lots of finishing existing bikes. Less N+1 and more N/finish1.

This year will be a year dedicated to finishing these bikes and showing some love and upgrades to existing bikes that have been sidelined. Thought I would make a thread to keep track of progress and in case anybody happened to be interested. Feel free to comment or roast as you see fit.

Does anybody have a 49cm Steamroller for sale?

From what I can see they seem to be fairly elusive, looking to do a fairly budget build for my gf and a new frame would really stretch the budget. Ideally frame and forks but to be honest beggers cant be choosers.

Need a new solid 120mm rear axle. Can't seem to find any for sale on the internet.

Ideally cones/washers/locknuts included.

PM'ed about the Enve bars

Looking to build my GF up a new bike, anybody got a frame (or frameset) around a 50cm (she is 5ft1) for sale. Looking for something semi aggressive that is drilled for a rear brake and ideally with bottle cages.

Too x-treme.

Lack of traction is an understatement.

Thanks, I had an excellent day.

This I fear is a picture that will haunt me for a while haha.

This is my Steamroller. Built for mixed surface and bike packing. I also recently rode Grinduro on it which was a blast.

Pmed

Looking for some omniums, already have a BB so just need the crankarms (chainring would be a bonus). Preferably in black. Anybody selling?

I am based in Edinburgh

Would you consider posting?

Looking for a disk fork for a Pompetamine build. Needs to be under 400mm a2c, take bigish tyres, not be an on-one fork and ideally be straight legged.

Anybody got anything?

Also need something that could tide me over as I feel this search might take a while. Pompino or steel Plug would work.

Still looking.

Do you know what the max tyre clearance is on this?

Looking for a Surly Steamroller frameset. Anybody got one to sell? Would also be interested in a Big Block, Brothers Allday. Basically want to run some big tyres (32 minimum) with some fairly steep geo. Thanks.

I have PM'ed you.

Agreed on price and postage. Money was sent but he didn't post.