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Thanks!
Yeah, seems like a huge shortage everywhere at the moment. I'll definitely try a few mild steel ones first as 4130 was already stupidly expensive in NZ before covid, not sure I even want to check costs now.

Ah, that bender looks great. Bars look awesome too!
What thickness of mild steel are you using?

Did you have any luck with this?
I've made a bender before, but only for smaller diameter rack tubing.
Have recently won an auction that has 3 different benders in it and am hoping I'll be able to use one for handlebars.
The one in the blue bucket is what I wanted but think the one in the red is the same as the hilmor you were looking at getting. If you did end up finding one, I'd love to know how you went.

Picked these up off a local auction site in NZ.
Going to feel slightly bad for wearing them.
Anyone know the age?

Ah yeah, did look into these but unfortunately SKS don't have a distributor in NZ and shipping from most sites is apparently taking a couple of months.
Planet bike do single front 20inch by 60mm front fenders for a recumbent bike that would be perfect, but the distro doesn't bring them in. I'm going to contact them and see if there's a chance they can do a special order.
In the meantime, I've cut down a rear tern gsd mudguard and salvaged mounting and struts from something I already had because they only sell them without hardware, which seems insane.
Hopefully sometime soon, Velo orange do a 29er/20inch mudguard set like they do with the 26/20. Would make life a whole lot easier.

20 inch front fenders, anyone have a source? After black plastic. To cover 2.1 at least. Have 4 omniums that need them (two wifi). Would buy wifi sets from omnium but they aren't in stock.
Thanks.

Oh thanks, totally missed that.
Webbing is all separate straps. The ones going across are loops that slide over the tray and the ones going lengthways weave through then connect underneath using Velcro. You can adjust those ones so that is has more give.

Thanks. Yeah, silver hubs and spokes to black rims always seem to look good. I still need to build the matching rear wheel. Hubs are stripped and polished dt 350's that I'd had it the parts drawer.
Yup, that's the correct Matias. Thanks!

Cheers. It's running 9 speed Shimano with a bafang 500w motor. Cranks and chainring are through a company here in NZ that do aftermarket stuff. Most of it has been moved across from my Clydesdale build which was no longer cutting it for the type of work that we do.

Just finished building this up. Rear wheel is a placeholder while I order spokes and saddle will be swapped, but other than that and fenders, it's pretty much complete.
Big thanks to Matias (unsure of user name) with helping us get the frames.

Still waiting on the problem solver derailleur adaptor, things that are supposed to be in stock in a week's time are getting pushed out to a few months. To be expected I guess.
In the mean time, I've stated to make a front rack for the tandem I picked up over Christmas.

I love this bike, he has another very nice Ritchey as well.

Oh, and this but I already posted it to functional thread.

Couple more.
Waltworks, curve uprock and Santa Cruz lizard. Also have a sancineto max bike but can't find photos of it and haven't built it back up since moving back to NZ. Other than a few frames, I think that's it for bikes I currently own. Sold all track stuff and a few roads
and mtbs when I left Aus. Kinda wish I hadn't.

Marin pro with a surly fork. I think it was a surly fork?
Will do. There's a few others in the shed.
Just picked this up while on holiday. Needs a bit of work. Hopefully not too much though.
Happy new year from the future, btw.

@spotter Could only find some crappy photos on my phone but here's a few of them.
Clydesdale build now has an ekit.

Ah yeah, that makes sense. I'm pretty sure I picked them up off a FB group called retro cycling marketplace Australia. Either that or from velo orange, but I'm not 100%.
Keen to see what the GB ones look like.

That Raleigh is great!
Good idea with the dt boss hack. I was kinda wondering what I should do about that. The rear derailleur has a barrel adjuster but front will be a pain. Had thought I could maybe tap a thread into the bracket that's on the bike and get some brass barrell adjusters. I haven't taken any measurements though, so I'm not sure if it would work?

Do you have a link to the BBB holders you are thinking of? I'm pretty sure I'll need something with conical washers.

I'm away on holiday at the moment but I'll have a search through my phone to see if I have any photos. Everything is always in a state on change though.

I'll have a look. I think I checked what the distributors had a while ago but they weren't bringing anything in that would work. I might just have to buy online.
I'd love to find some Scott Mathauser Super Brake holders and pads. I think Yokozuna maybe still make them, but are stupidly expensive and to get them to NZ would cost far too much.

Thanks regarding the cassettes! Could never seem to keep a scratch off a CD when I was younger so tapes were the go. I was really happy to find the display cases in a secondhand music store and managed to talk the owner into selling them to me.

They are Gran compe, maybe an older model? I'm not sure where I picked them up from but I don't think they were expensive.
Just looked at the photo and I'm actually holding it upside down. Whoops.

I'm almost up to where I currently am.
Sorry this has turned into a bit of a novel.

With the wheel built, I finally opened the packaging of the Grand Boi tyres that I'd had for years and mounted them.
I then treated the frame with frame saver and gave it a good clean to try and remove the built up grime. It really is is good condition for something that is over 40 years old.
I'd ended up with a spare Chris King 2nut headset that I installed and had also found at some point some replacement springs and plates for the braze on brakes. The old springs were ok but I installed the new ones with the idea of having the old ones as spares.
I'd purchased a nitto 28.6 seatpost and stripped the ano off it and gave it a polish. I'd also picked up some new GB fenders from the commuter cycles garage sale for cheap because the ones I had for the bike had dents in them. I wasn't really that worried but the new ones were stupidly cheap and I figured I could repurpose the dented ones to 650b at some point.
I installed all the components that I currently have onto the bike.
I'm waiting on front derailleur braze on adaptor from problem solvers and need to come up with a way to mount the rear mudguard to the brake bridge. I'm not keen to use a bracket and will try to come up with an alternative.
Other than that,I just need to get some compressionless brake housing, some bar tape, fender flaps and decide on which saddle to use.
I'm sure there's a bunch of other things that I haven't thought of or I'll need to change but I guess that's part of the fun.

Edit: also looking for recommendations for brake pads/holders to use.
Also looking at the innicycle headset to clean things up but have also started to play around with brazing so maybe a custom stem could be on the cards.

Thanks! I'm not huge on the look of threaded to threadless stems but maybe this one will be ok.

Next up was building a rear wheel for the bike. I'd tried to find a white industries hub to match the cranks, but didn't have any luck, so when a friend offered me a no name silver, sealed bearing hub for $10, I jumped on it.
The hub was anodised but looked like someone had a crack at polishing it before but had given up pretty quickly. A polished hub would match the build so I read up about stripping ano and got to it with the oven cleaner. After the anodising was gone, I hand polished using different grits of wet n dry sandpaper and also some stuff called Miracle shine that I'd gotten in Japan. I'm pretty sure it's the same as Silvo and the hub came up a treat. This was a long process and in future i will buy a polishing wheel.
About this time I picked up some work in a bike shop and decided it was time I finally learn how to build my own wheels. I made use of having access to wholesale accounts and got myself a truing stand, spoke keys etc.
I measured up the hub to order spokes and found out that it was 135mm, the whole time I had thought it was 130. The frame was originally 126 but had obviously been used with a 130 at some point in its life as it was now somewhere around 128mm. 128 to 130 would be fine but to 135 was going to be a stretch. I wasn't keen on cold setting out to that amount so talked to a engineering friend and he was willing to have a go at turning the end caps down to fit. With that done and making sure the chain wouldn't run on the frame with a ten speed cassette, I ordered the correct length spokes and built up the wheel.
I spent way to long on the wheel build but was happy with the end result, it was a bit like solving a puzzle and rather rewarding.

I got pretty into the Alex singer stem Caps so picked up some material to have a go at making something similar for the Sakae stem. I had a bit of time so I also got enough to make a quill stem adaptor and spacers.
The stem cap came out pretty good, it uses a rubber O ring to stay in place. The stem adaptor works but will probably end up using a nitto one. It was fun to make though and allowed me to see what it would look like.

I moved back to NZ at the start of 2019 and had access to my father's "workshop" when I visited my parents, so used the opportunity to modify the stem.
I made a sanding drum that I could mount in the drill press and used it to to take away material on the clamp until I could get it around the bends in the bar. I then made a similar one to mount in the lathe to change the clamping area from 25.4 to 26.

Interesting, I'll make sure to keep an eye on it and change if needed. I've had a Cinelli grammo on a bike before and there's no way it could be worse than that.