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Annoyingly there’s a small amount of rear disc rub. I tried to reposition the caliper but it always seems to work its way back to the same place. Perhaps the frame needs more facing on the caliper mount so I’ll book it in with the shop that build it so the can take a look.

Parallel Handbuilt often raves about using copper washers for flat mount, supposedly stops the caliper from moving around.

Cranks will be black Hope with a silver ring, it's really just the pedals that need ordering still. Those R2 jobbies will be fine I think so I believe that's all important decisions made. Paint will be done by Carbel Colours in Copenhagen, it's going t0 be a similar effect to his own bike but with green on green on green.

Proving the entire forum wrong, hopefully.

Mads being Mads, the pocket is not allowed to be a transparent plastic. It will be the lightest weight Dyneema I can get for those Japanese hiker UL vibes.

@BareNecessities content

Good bike.

Sweet!

What happened to the red stem?

I do my modelling in Fusion360, which has a very hard to read timeline but it does have the option to play back the construction steps. Could have done a couple of things slightly neater but it's not too bad. The biggest flex is that I can change the tube diameter and wall diameter (within reason) and have the model change to suit.

It's really not living the life it deserves, I should give it a better place in the space at least. And I should finally hang that LBL print.

Thanks all!

Just sent out the fork dropout design for the bike @Hulsroy is building me. The printer was a bit apprehensive about the shape so there's a back-up option, but we have high hopes.

Lots of cool stuff coming up.

Starting to look pretty neat I think.

If I go back to clipless it'll be Time ATAC for me, but for the time being I'm on flats.

Things I'm pretty sure about but that still need buying:

Headset = Silver Hope to match the hubs
Bottle Cages = King Cage
Grips = Ergon GA3 Orange
Seat post = Thomson Elite in silver, which also means a Thomson X4 stem and seat post collar
Pedals = These seem cheap and light and mostly fine?

Things I'm not sure about:

Cranks = Maybe the Hope cranks Mads has going spare, these would be sick but well out of budget: https://www.cybercycles.de

Dropouts arrived at my workshop yesterday, making their way to the cold north as we speak.

Some colour scheme musings.

The new Ayyyteeebeeeee is starting to take shape, spec that's already confirmed:

Wheels = Hope hubs x Duke rims
Tyres = Vittoria Mezcal 2.35" in grey
Drive train = Shimano 12 speed
Brakes = Shimano
Bars = SQLab 3OX 16deg

Things I'm pretty sure about but that still need buying:

Headset + seat post clamp = Silver Hope to match the hubs
Bottle Cages = King Cage
Grips = Ergon GA3 (not sure about the colour)

Things I'm not sure about:

Cranks = I was planning on putting a nice DM ring on my old Rotor 3D24s but apparently that won't work because of the narrow Q-factor.
Seat post = No dropper, so probably something reasonably light for some compliance. They're all much of muchness I guess.
Pedals = Maybe just cheap resin something, @Hulsroy says I deserve matching Hope F20s but my bank account disagrees.

There's the metal beams on 3 of the 4 walls which the bike and pattern rack hang from, my old work is in a pile in a corner it might be nice to have some of it on show now you mention it.

Most of my project stuff is in Huls' thread at the moment, but @stelfox reminded me I'd never shown any updates of my studio.

Bit of a mess but about as organised as it gets usually. I've ordered a couple of big LED lights to create more light in the middle of the space, this no daylight is not too bad but I'll be happy to do away with the TL light and replacing everything for LED.

I have a couple of other to-dos for organisation stuff, like keeping all thread spools and corresponding bobbins in one space, mounting all the webbing rolls to a rack, probably switch places between the work table and box collection and upgrade the work table to something at a decent height. But after a small year it's beginning to wear in and everything starts to find its place.

:)

Seem to be pretty short stays for those clearances?

I'm over the moon, can't thank you enough!

That could be interesting, I'm planning a Mads inspired mounting solution for the first prototype, but I could definitely make a similar bag work with the Fidlocks if you'd prefer. I'll hopefully have some stuff to share soon!

Sweet, subbed!

Oh and obligatory analog wanker picture of the bike of course.

I had your post in mind when I took this picture last summer.