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Wait, what?
#rep

... found out that Sram S300 cranks in 165mm must be made of refined unobtainium, as the onlineshop I ordered them at hasn't been able to locate any for 6 weeks now...

End of rant.

Keep that up. The bike porn thread is in need of some proper content.

Looks rad. Closeup of the ghetto-sealing?

This man knows his way around a can of paint.
This is going to look ace...

Scienced.

Better get one of those Royce chainwheels then.

For that illusion to work your wheel needs spokes. or some other kind of recurring pattern.

It's a bad idea before I'd even finished typing but I'm going to acknowledge my failure so others can learn from it.

Fair play. #rep

3 more weeks...
Robert has contacted me on Friday asking about some detail geometry, so at least he has read the specifications now. ;)
I hope he'll get started on my frame this week.

Current state of my beater.
I hope the new frame is coming soon...

Fatbike 29er? Winning!

Take a V-brake noodle for the last bit and saw it down to the length you need? that way you can do a very tight turn.

This build is getting better with each picture...

Tiny headtube.

Thanks!
But since I'm not local I'll try finding something around here.

Ryde Taurus 19.
19mm internal width, about 26mm at the widest point on the outside.
more info here: http://www.ryde.nl/nl/producten?product=39
they look and feel decent and were quite cheap.
The rear hub is Novatec, the front Shimano XT.
Spokes are DT Competition and nipples brass.

Today I laced up the wheelset for my new build.
Being #ontrend for 2014/15 I laced 29er rims to a track rear hub and a XT front disc hub.
Going to run fixed gear with a front disc brake.

Please excuse the poor image quality.

So this really IS constant downhill?
Unless you ride up a hill, where it's flat?
Genius.

Lots of nice stuff came with the mail today. some hubs, spokes, nipples, rims... I'm ready to build wheels

A bike can't get more Gaston.

tool type hand movements

#euph?

Wheels are one of these things, were you can imagine lots of wonderful ways how things could work, and you wonder "Why hasn't this been done before?"

Until you finally realize "Wait. That doesn't work at all." and reality gets you back.

either way it will give you 10 seconds to shit on their bonnet, d lock their face off or just fuck off laughing while they are still thinking about what a total cunt they are.

Much #rep deserved.

^^ Someone applying for a ban again?

There's also the Sturmey Archer S2 2-speed kick-shift thing.
The freewheel variant is 120mm spaced. Needs no additional cables either.