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Ok, seems fair. How much would you like for the pair..?

@retrodicorsa long shot but you wouldn’t still have a 36h rim I could buy by any chance?

Good shout, will look into them.

Hey, thanks! You're up north somewhere right? I just might take you up no that offer, providing the damned frame gets built before winter sets in again. That Stanton looks awesome!

Managed to dent my mavic open pro ceramic 36h rear rim. Any options apart from paying silly NOS prices on ebay? Any grey low profile alu rims available these days? It's for a rear fixed wheel so doesn't need a brake track really.

Sounds like you did more than alright. No shame in knowing when you’ve had enough! Weather seems to have been nice too, even if cold.

Btw if anyone is after a pair of flat mount shimano brakes I have some tiagras spare as the frame has IS mounts. No idea how Brexit affects small parcels from the EU but they seem to be around £45 each new (quick google earlier, happy to be corrected) I’d take £40 + postage for the pair. Apologies if I shouldn’t have asked here, will make a proper classifieds ad if so.

No doubt, but so few of them are open on Sunday nights...

I just want to say fuck you shimano for making your road hydro levers need a differently threaded bleed thing thereby rendering my regular bleed kit useless and now I can’t use my favourite bike to get to work tomorrow.

But then I ran into the inevitable snag. Didn’t know road hydraulics need a plastic adapter at the lever for bleeding. So now I have to wait for the £2 adapter thingy before proceeding. Perhaps just as well as I’ve started obsessing about ‘wandering bite point’ on shimano brakes and how it’s better to use moto fork oil of some sort (forgotten the exact name), which I’ve duly ordered and should be arriving this week. How I’ve managed to bike around with the wrong type of brake fluid so far is of course a complete mystery.

Routing the hydraulic stuff went alright and the cheap (£15!) mtb calipers seem to fit.

But the slightly wonky rear wheel turned out to be due to a number of chewed up and bent spokes behind the cassette. I dimly recall dropping the chain there during a particularly horrid commute through the snowdrifts. Had to change 7 spokes in all, lucky the wheel hasn’t exploded earlier!

Started tearing this down today, plan was to finish servicing and rebuilding in a day.

Never seen those before, what’s the idea? That you can adjust each side separately?

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

pricey to get rid of

In what way? I need new hoses anyway as the ones on the brakes are too short.

Wtf are these connectors good for, can I just get rid of them and run uninterrupted hoses from lever to caliper? Or will I fuxxor something at the lever end? Shimano road levers.

This is the best cp thread in a very long time.

Feel like having crisps for breakfast now though

I hate covidiots.

Wow, bike fever. You’re turning these out fast!

Awesome kid bike. Good move swapping the grip shifter, I remember my kids struggling with those things when they were smaller.

Genesis also rad, and the giant. Why no proper v-brake love though?

Bike24 don’t have the spokes I need in silver so they’re refunding me for the black ones. I could in the name of resource utilisation and common sense build the rear with half silver, half black spokes. But I’ll most likely slide down to the LBS and buy new silver ones instead.

Front done. ~110kgf disc side spokes. Got the lengths just right, very satisfying.

no one needs to read or answer twice the amount of the current level of questions.

I promise to keep the hydraulic dropper questions to a minimum.