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nowt wrong with novatec.

those eclat sprockets are rotten.

It's all very well for you to snipe, but I'd like to see you make a wooden chain.

Suffice to say, it wooden work.

You guys are right. I get pretty impatient and wanted to get a mock up build going, glad I haven't touched the frame though. Jason has all the details now, so just gonna have to see what Parcelforce/Parcelmonkey come up with.

Got on to Planet X and one of the mechanics suggested that if the carbon is sound(which it appears to be) that I try use an old headset bearing and try tap the cup back into circularity. Hopefully the Alu is malleable enough that I can work it back into its original shape or as close to it.

Just to reiterate, Jason^ is a top bloke and did a great job on the packing and isn't at fault here. Don't want anyone to pick things up the wrong way and damage his rep.

The carbon looks fine. I think getting a new cup put in is the sensible solution if Parcelforce don't wanna know. Getting it out and getting a new one in will be the tough thing. I highly doubt there are many carbon specialists in Dublin let alone any that have dealt with carbon bicycle frames. Hopefully I'll have a reply from Planet X tomorrow.

zis is me making ze joke, ya.

it's so unbelievably shite it's been propelled through the membrane of pengyness into radness.

ubin hippy'd

Was looking it over with my old man and he brought up the idea of assembling a front end on as normal and then cranking down on the top cap, in the hope that the force bringing everything together will push the headset bearing down into the cup and force it to be seated there. I told him it was a ham fisted idea, but i think it could possibly work. Or fuck up the bearing, or the cup, or the frame, or all three. Thoughts?

So I took delivery of this Planet X Stealth Pro Carbon from KingSwann2013(formerly KingSwann) and I was delighted with it, it was, as described, in excellent condition all round. Jason did a great job packing it too.

Only when I went to mount the forks today did I notice that the top integrated headset bearing wouldn't sit in its cup. On closer inspection, the cup has been bent slightly inwards away from the headtube as you can see in the pics below.

This is my first forage into carbon framery but I'm guessing these cups are just bonded into the frame? The carbon of the headtube appears to have retained its circularity, a cup could probably be sourced i'd imagine and replaced, would probably need seeing to by a carbon expert I'd imagine. I'm going to email Planet X with pics and get their advice, Jason shipped the frame insured with Parcelforce so I think it's well possible that I may have to go down the route of an insurance claim.

Has anyone had a problem like this before with their carbon frames? Anyone dealt with insurance claims with Parcelforce? As per usual any insight is greatly appreciated.

it would suck so bad if i never get to ride Southbank. i'd go if i could at all, keep fighting the good fight.

matte black crankset can get to fuck. reminds me of when thieves rattlecan stolen bikes and just paint the whole bike.

Dunno how I haven't stumbled across this thread before, some serious fire in here.

Gonna leave this here, probably one of my favourite young guns around at the moment, he played in Dublin last Thurs and was pure sickened I missed it. Not bad for a 15 year old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvQjQ1k8KrM

had a bmx with a 20mm euro bottom bracket. fuck that shit.

(bike is lush btw)

65 odd kg, bout one twenny.

that berretto is a wee cracker. mmmm...

is that an AliExpress offering?

That 695 in Anti? Hell naw. A lot of branding sure, but it definitely works imo.

Slow learner huh. You have to post a price if you're selling something. Forum rules.

awesome work on the turbo, shaping up to be a cracking build. that frame is really something.

I really like the plain straight letter style of those Swinnerton decals.

custom Shiv:
http://www.aaronmiletichphotography.com/img/s10/v110/p2144289064-5.jpg

take the lockring off but leave the cog on. find suitably sized hill and give it the beans all the way up. this will tighten the cog if you don't have a chainwhip. put the lockring back on and tighten it.