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The wife’s baby hauler, shown sans cables.

My current Steamroller

No longer mine, early 2000s Boston Baked Bean Steamroller.

The Indy Fabulous is just too small for me, gonna try to pass this frame on.

Good news is that but looks like another storied Somerville MTB frame might be coming my way...

Funny, I gave away a pair of Deore cranks last night...
Only reason I’m thinking of the VO ones is ‘cause I already have them, which is a less then ideal reason.

So the cranks I have are for boost spacing, would give s terrible chain line. What the thoughts on these but with a Wolf Tooth ring?

Ha, if you’re serious (and it does end up being too small) I can bring it to Cambridge in March when I’m visiting the family.

It’s a microshift, you can pick them up cheap on the eBay.

Installed a Kona Project 2 fork today. Tossed on a Sim-Works seatpost and bars, took a few measurements and I’m very worried it’s gonna be too small for me :(

So a bit of the back story on this frame has emerged. I was pretty sure this frame came from my shop when the owner sent me pictures, at least it had one of our stickers on it. In the early 2000s we were selling 100-120 frames a year, one of if not the biggest IF dealers.
So it ends up that the guy who traded me this frame used to work at my shop (wtf he didn’t tell me when I told him I work there).
It was a display frame made in 96/97 and was sold to make room for an updated display frame in 2000. I guess that’s why he ended up with a women’s frame?

This is the cleanest IF BB shell I’ve see. No rust, original (?) grease. Smells like horse shit?

Straightened the dropout and did a heavy clean of the frame. Simple Green followed by BikeLust. Gonna hit it with some Turtle Wax tomorrow, protect and polish.

I’ve pulled the stem, it’s definately 1”.

I thought about keeping the dt, but well... I like modern parts.

Well the dropout is a bit buggered. See what we can do about that at the shop tomorrow.

So this little bird just fell into my lap as part of a sale/trade. It was supposed to be a 18” 2000 Steel Delux. Well it’s a 17” Steel Special, and it’s serial #238 dates it to pre-98. The bike has a canti hanger in the rear, I think Shimano V-brakes debuted in 96?

The Bomber Pro fork has seen better days, gonna swap it out with a rigid fork, suspension corrected 1”? I think a Kona Project 2 fits the bill. Probably replace the 8 speed XTR&XT bits with a 1x10 XT kit I have kicking around.

Hey stupid question, do y'all name your bikes?

New stem parts have arrived thanks to TiCycles

Just had some Beacons hand delivered by David from Sinewave. He just explained to me that you should only be running the light and battery pack in circuit if you are running the light on the low setting, so about 150 lumens vs 600.

If I try I get almost zero power to my charging unit. I don't think it's unhealthy for the parts, just blah.

The E3 can be turned on and off. You can't charge and run the E3 with a charger at the same time. The E3 pure doesn't have a switch.

Orange Seal is all we use in the shop for personal bikes. I've been running it under some Compass Cycles tyres for a few months now, and under some Vittoria Barzos for a few years now.

I've been using a Beacon since July. It has a bit of annoying flicker at low speed (8-10 miles an hour) that my Supernova E3 doesn't have. However when run in a loop with a battery pack that all gets taken care of.

Oh and I'm using it with a Supernova taillight, I'm supposed to be using a resistor wired inline. I tried but I couldn't get the rear light to work. I removed the resistor and it's all working fine.

Well another part of the stem failed...

I have some motolites coming tomorrow.

Ok as I'm waiting on brakes I'm trying to figure out what saddle to use.

Also considering a brown suede Turbo. But how long will it stay suede-ey?