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yawn I've played knifey-spooney before, you know. Use a tape that has a stiffer or less elastic outer layer than the foam underneath, wrap it tight and you won't get edge curling.

Been going top down for 25+ years, reckon I could even wrap most plain foam tapes tight enough not to curl.

If it's good tape and you wrap it tight, you can go any direction you like, even top down like I always do, since no finishing tape = win

I thought the UK had some crazy lax rules about self-built vehicles...

Wow, whole lotta fugly going on there

Ti/Wound Up/Thomson fest, all the one owner no doubt.

I actually dig the Litespeed, despite the 1x...

Is that a threadless Cinelli Grammo?

The Vitus is cool, pity about NDS pic.

Dunno about that lever position though, together with the seat clamped on the back of its rails, I'd feel like I was falling off the front of the thing.

Holy duck snapping shit, dude. Those all yours?!

How many do you currently own...?

Lol, keen AF. Good luck, mate

Oh yeah, I've seen those, damn flash, and spendy. Life's too short to go without nice tools though - just ordered a 150mm pair.

Was that frameset a freebie, or did you bust it?

And how the hell is that tube/tape confection holding up your post?

...Ohh, wait, I get it now - the stretched tube is doing the same thing as a clamp, and the tape is there to hold it in place for some unspecified amount of time. Nice bodge.

Needed a bit of 10mm dowel, in case anyone's interested

Tool anti porn. Making do during lockdown

Edit: whoops, wrong thread

Wow at the weirdness on the black Merckx - Delta brakes and EPS with no Ergos has to be a totally unique combo.

Campy took a while to agree with me that a rear dual pivot is superfluous... I've never run a rear DP. Shame Shimano never realised what a nice touch this is. While back, I bought a pair of 7400 single pivots, and cut down the front spindle so I had two rears (trashed my M5 thread die on that steel). One of em paired with a 7700 front, rocking the 7400 QR from the other brake, the other sporting the 7700 QR, paired with a 9000 front. Been toying with the notion of using some dark tint film offcuts to ape the 9000 ano...

Some fine work there. This one definitely a standout

Shame about the clamp bolt location though.

... Hmm, indexing adjustment on the go via tweaking the noodle.

tweaking the noodle

Possible euphemism or album name

Lime sherbet with red bits is a lol, particularly the one blue cable and one orange cable.

That last one, well, I figure if you're gonna buy a dumb heavy single speed with boat anchor wheels, that one looks pretty cool next to most of em

Just finished reading through the thread, noticed somebody linked the locking spanner on eBay a month ago. It was mentioned they make cassette tools way less fiddly, basically making the poofight on the right functionally identical to the sweetness on the left.

My cassette tool is a Lezyne thing that's a combo with a BB cup tool, think I've got another similar thing that's a combo of a couple of other tools, and the locking shifter (that's what us colonial types call an adjustable wrench) is a game changer; turns two separate tools into one.

Where has this bastard lovechild of a shifter and vise grip been all my life? And why is there only one brand and size?

Assimilating other tools like the Borg is just its everyday trick, but once in a while, being a vise grip with parallel jaws is just gob-smackingly awesome.

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Got some NOS 600 pedals a few years ago, bearings needed adjustment. Chromed hex was only 2mm wide and tight as hell. Couldn't imagine cracking the locknuts without scarring them, except I had this bad boy.

Me, I'd just use a 1" threadless fork. Got a couple, including an Easton Aero that's the farken tits.

This would be the place to pimp this: https://www.innicycle.com/

Bloke who posts on BikeForums came up with this super sweet threaded to threadless adapter, so a bike with a threaded fork can look just like a threadless one. You can ditch that flexy old quill stem, keep the original fork, and not ruin the whole exercise by tainting your bike with one of those fugly quill adapters.

This thread has upped its game.

Holy crap, best staging ever.

Pretty fricken hot bike too

Again with the boring black.