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Great outing!

ovg's on holidays this sunday :weeping:

is there space on that tiny stoker seattube for a kiddy crank? in this house, if you ride tandem then you pedal!

I'm not proud, I'm gonna get the 10am Southern train to London Bridge & ride from there...

yes I'm in, wish I could bring my partner too but they have a something else :( bike tbc but it'll def be a 26er for the pump track hot lap grouptest

random question - do you know which model surly forks those are? are they 447mm axle-to-crown, maybe from the Ogre? I'm thinking about some rigid forks for my p7 & these look good with the frame

fucking ace bike. ngl wasn't 100% sure about the bespoked build, it's so great in this build now tho. love it.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat

woop! On with the build!!

cool, I will try to find them...!

alternatively, somewhere in my stash is a pair of unused 2009 reissue Smoke & Dart 2.1" tyres - want them?
good tyres? meh. right tyres for your riding? lol no. "classic"/"period correct"? HELLS YES!! slack beads? I think so, yeah...

do not sell the wheels, just take them to the shop you're allowed to do that.

👆 this

I'm at basically 4 (beater drop-bar fixed, folding, traditional touring, hardtail 26er mtb) plus various bits (road frame, retrobike at my parents' house, ...) & can't imagine going much lower, they're for pretty different things.

If I had somewhere to store them, tho, I would definitely have more bikes - and would blur some of those categories... (29er ssmtb, drop-bar gravel, folding mtb i.e. all-packa, fast road, moustache-bar dinglespeed road, ...)

Just make sure it’s fully inside a bag!

wow whaaaaaaaaat

Does this have mountings for a rear brake?

what size? I have a 24" 1950/51 Carpenter that I've been half-heartedly trying to sell for ages

EDIT: oh yeah it's the 25" frame thread, so... yeah...

afraid I don't have any suitable wheels, but would totally throw some quids into a crowdfunder/your paypal/an envelope thru your door if that's what it takes to get this thing rolling!

ebay "26 hope stans" not coming up with great options rn ("mint condition with just a couple of dents"), but if you had some budget you could be ready & watching...?

oh no! gutted! I was really looking forward to seeing how this bike turned out! will join the queue of people offering bits from the spares bins in the hopes of getting it out from under the laundry...

Got a pic of the Bob Jackson?

also agree, mine got the sleeve done a couple months back at Compton - quick, good & local (to me!)

Cool thanks

strip, clean, prime and paint it with something with anti corrosive properties.

yeah... thinking I might have a go at cleaning it up & putting some clear lacquer/nail polish over the areas. wondering if it's worth getting some "gun blue" to apply before the lacquer, or not worry so much...

the rear guard sits inside of the bridge

ah, that's a good shout, just wrestled it a bit & the guard popped into the inside of the bridge - think that'll help!

what I mean is - in the photo it looks like rusty metal flaking up to reveal a hole in the chainstay bridge, in person it looks (to me) like rust-coloured lacquer flaking up to reveal an intact tube with some surface rust. question is, how can I protect the tube - is it "get the rear triangle resprayed"?

was giving my 2016 raw lacquer a clean today & noticed a bit of rust starting at rub points on the rear triangle - I think it looks worse in the pics than it looks in person, but what could/should I be doing to keep this in check? long-term I'm fairly chill as it's an excuse to switch to kinetics / rohloff, but...