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need a new skewer, somebody tried to steal it and bent it.
sorry shit phone picture

Someone nicked my front skewer last year - it was a fraught 3mile ride home trying to work out whether to put extra weight up front so the axle wouldn't pop out of the fork-end, or to lean back ready to poke a wheelie when the wheel fell out. Extra weight seemed to work (even over speed ramps)

An interesting selection of bits and bobs arrived with todays postman!
Hopefully start wheelbuilding tomorrow!

Thanks for the canti's stedlocks - they're perfect for the job

Cheers Pat - They arrived today!
Case Closed
I owe you a drink when we meet in October!

^^ Those 3rensho midget lo-pro's with 24" are invariably subject to the most hilarious builds

I notice however that the Tune saddle discussed earlier today was described by the manufacturer as having "cut out to prevent compression of urologic vessels".
Slave and safe - these germans think of everything

My stripped flite snags my jeans

^ fair point

If you want to keep your existing rear mech you'll need to check its capacity.
(The ability of the derailleur arm to take up slack in the chain) - assume for sake of argument 30T
you then take your chainset range in this case 14T, subtract that from your capacity and you've got a rear cassette range of 16T e.g. 12-28
if you want a top end of 32, that'll mean a cassette of range 16-32 (which you'll be unlikely to find off-the-shelf.
Alternatively you can make a mental note never to go into the big sprockets when in the big ring!!! - but that's rather risky

^put that right back where you found it

Thanks - I've grown quite attached to the juxtaposition of rusty steel and polished aluminium....

^True.
Thin line between patina and rust - I was just thinking this morning that I'll need to buy a can of clearcoat for my slightly unsettling fork crown (The red colour on the photo is not paint, it's a rather lurid shade of rust!)

very pretty
(although I did rather like it in it's rat paint - nice patina).

If it's the viscount you posted in the rat thread a while back - keep it...

^ I know nothing of tandems but the lugs on yours look typical of 1930's/1940's frames.
The headset is a Brampton and spares for this are easily obtained as George Longstaff machined a big batch which are now stashed away at the Tandem Club - same goes for bottom bracket sleeves, brake linings and eccentric BB shells and all the other specialist stuff - the tandem club shop can be found here - http://www.tandem-club.org.uk/_clubshop.htm

If you're keen on finding out what it is you've got, your best bet is probably the tandem club forum http://www.tandem-club.org.uk/_dboard.htm

Hope this helps

Sorry, frame has gone.

s'pose we ought to get back to business...

Apologies if a repost.

If you're serious about this I'd consider talking to these guys
http://www.printedmotorworks.com/pancake-motors/
IIRC they are keen to get involved with small R&D projects (within the realms of sensible business), but they're good guys, based in Alton (just down the M3).

Check the torque ratings - the winch torque ~ 1 Nm (9.8kg cm) whereas those in my previous post were 2.5 Nm (24kg cm)
Trade-off is speed, the winch is >3x faster

No Worries - I've got the ones originally fitted to the frame

^ 2.5Nm is a typical limit for model robot servos*
Here are a couple to consider
http://www.servoshop.co.uk/index.php?pid=HITH7954SH&area=Servo
http://www.wheelspinmodels.co.uk/i/55592/

• Please note: this information was obtained through professional activities as a product designer and does not infer any geeky hobbies (as if contributing to a fixed gear forum weren't bad enough)
  

^ Seatstay caps are similar to my Bob Jackson - lugs are slightly different, but the frame number looks to be a reasonable match.
Is the serial# on the BB?
Mine takes a 27.0 seatpost too - track bikes were often built of sterner stuff than their TT counterparts!!

More photos here - starting from pg 38 of this thread.
My frame number's 4854 from 1964
and Apolloxl has 4103 from 1960
On the RTTC forum there was a 1973 model at number 9359
Assuming they made roughly 500 per year it is worth investigating whether or not you have a ca. 1966/1967 Bob Jackson

Excellent news!
"bling hetchins" - very nice - nothing to take the piss out of there!

Nice one, thanks.
PM Sent

Lairy enough for you?

^ They had a reasonable reputation for bomb-proofness from the people I knew that used them - not as good as Middleburns, but not bad - the thing everyone hated was the screw-on spider that creaked all the time.

This review here says much the same - http://www.mtbr.com/cat/drivetrain/crankset/cook/e2-series/prd_350977_115crx.aspx