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mr TvH offered me some lovely parts btw which will be swanning their way to me soon,

update on the custom bike, i've received some initial photos, I'm under a STRICT visual NDA so will have to describe them for you here, i know you sicko's love hearing details from overly demanding customers.

the first decision was how about the chain stay, currently it's sitting somewhere between Raleigh clunker and lht, i've pushed back on this, literally, hoping to have something a bit more forward thinking, think surly big dummy.

finally the paint, we're thinking a natural process, washed once, maybe placing it in the clyde for a week to pick up some natural patina, like a Scottish mash work.

rep for posting a no brake bike with radial laced wheel in @yoshy 's thread

also im calling it, putting your £200 headset cups in upside down has the same rebellious energy as 420bandobaby

squid bikes have such "industry disruption energy" in the fact they're "fun" "not serious" "utilitarian" but then cost a bazillion pounds for something that cost half its price a couple of years ago but now using the bad standards

it's all v yank

it's true, no depressed person would make a bike this ugly, you'd have to be truly euphoric off your tax bracket

i don't doubt, the the it's all exceptionally done, i just neg him for not saying "no, you have bad taste, we won't do that under my name"

@Glws Balmain fan detected :eyes: , cavalli is appropriate tho, or "golden goose"

actually amazing how english continues to make the ugliest bikes in existence, and people love it, lap it up, stuff 10 large in his hand and say "one for me please!!"

like the balmain of bikes

shit like this makes me wish it was a legal requirement for product pages to have comment sections

i actually thought sscx was a meme, sort of like bike polo, till i saw the relevant threads here with people being earnest

please mark this nsfw, :weary:

@amey i would NEVER buy carbon how could you think this of me

i'd recc briefing japan, their messengers/ holdalls are v good, they use seatbelt esque webbing for this really thick/ robust molle, probably quite resistant, would be nice on the musette.

really nice bags btw, the musette and accessory pouch especially, looking forward to the thread developing!

The acronym 3a3ts is is probably their most iconic bag

Think they’re made by bagjack?

Think you’d like acrs/ bag jacks bags, might provide some good reference points for you, similar ideas around modularity / look

Molle/ 3 point slings/ light milspec influences/ refined execution

nice 3a3ts, is it interops compatible?

bikes look so much better in larger sizes, lovely fleet! that soma!

imo get cantis and take to an old man in a shop to set up, and every time they need adjusting, eventually the price of this will force you to "learn how to set them up" and you'll slowly improve over 10 years or so, and just suffer with bad braking along the way

but you wont mind, because your bike will be VERY pretty

i think this page has convinced me to buy a belt drive with sport contacts

i did option one, i feel SO powerful

also the final mv build bits as the man came to collect the rims and hubs to build today, i answered the door in a haze, honestly monday, 9am, i'd just logged onto see everything had broke over the weekend and the door goes.

i think i spoke words??

finally settled on some cheap and cheerful continental doublefighters in 29x2" for the bike, as i assume it will be somewhat dry by the time i get it

rippp,

i believe it is possible just my mechanic skills are lacking and i need something robust

weighing it up last night making nice chickpea curry (tombase, simple masala, coconut oil heavy and sweet potato cooked till smooth)

my options are

1) order a half link and a ht2 bb tool, try to set up the brake with a shorter chain and if that doesn't work, make it fixed and forget about it for a good period of time, mv bike should be here in in the future anyway (got a v exciting picture of a box of piping over the weekend)

maybe do a slow part acquisition, nice levers (some fancy cane creeks? dia compe?) and brakes (nice xt v's? learn how to v brakes?), bars (noodles??), new tyres (something slicker? road focused?) get a caradice for it, like a mini lht

2) take one last pass at it, order some tektro long pulls, generic 44cm bars, cotton tape, new cables and some cheap tektro vbrakes, just get it working

i think no1 is more attractive now i brake it down like this, i have some strapped pedals if it needs to be fixed which would look fitting, and although i hate riding fixed there are less hills here than Manchester at least, would also make the 5 mile spins a bit more engaging

b)

if they're long pull that would be great, happy to cover postage and coffee/beer

i think realistically the logical move next is to get a half link, and see if that splits the difference, between enough wheel clearance/ short enough pull to make the lever happy

if that doesn't work?

long pull levers and v brakes?

cantilevers??!!?!!?

smaller tyres?!?!!!!!?

just buying a bb tool and making it fixed permanently?!?!?!?!!?!

throwing it in the thames!?!!!!!!!!!!!!?!!?!?!?!!?!!?!??!?!­!?!?!!?!??!?!!?!?!!?!?!!?!??!

today was going so well,

weather was perfect at a BARMY 6 degrees centigrade, pretty much tropical,

the parcel force man came at 10 am! dropped off a hacksaw and drill bits,

I was ready, i was prepared, so i thought, for a day of lockdown tinkering to whittle away the hours before monday dredd set in and took up the evening slot

first job of the day was sizing up if i wanted to drill this pomp fork or put on this all day fork, pretty radically different forks you can imagine, not only aesthetically but the allday is 2omm shorter and 4 degrees steeper.

I was however, waiting for the drill to charge so a slid the all day on and DAMN, it looked perfect. and by perfect i do not mean normatively perfect, i mean perfect in the sense it looks supremely fucked up, like WOW.

the tt was now flatter, the front end was lower and i was going to have to run A LOT of spacers, and that....that all sounds great

alas, i sacked off the drill and got to work on this terrible project, first port of call chopping the steerer. luckily i had a new hacksaw and a pile of blades, i went at it, absolutely the worst sawing you've ever seen, half strokes, no pressure, i was pretty much massaging it. i got the hang of it after a while and decided to break for lunch

it was left over vegetable chili and rice from the night before, delicious. always better the next day, better flavour , time to mature yada yada.

Refreshed I'm back at it and with a little protein in me i decimated that steerer and placed it in the frame. I couldn't help but let out a sort of hans gruber style laugh when i saw the amount of spacers i was putting on, 20mm after 20mm, it was like a ring toss and i was nailing it.

even the starnut went straight in first time, alas when tightening the headset the top was a little uneven, nothing some haphazard filing couldn't solve, being careful not to file my Thomson stem. result, we were SECURE.

next up light. The bolt i had was too short so i dug around in my parts bin and found this old suspension linkage pin for another project i sacked off and it was perfect, in all but the stuped light bracket needed spacers.

i thought this is it, day over, i simply do not have it,

time to go upstairs and look at an sjs basket for one particular part but order £400 worth of crap with it

it was only when thinking about paul brakes and their springs (of which i need a set to fix a broken one I have in a box) i though v brake pad spacers! rummaging around in a freshly organised tool box i soon found them and they worked perfectly, i just hope i don't need that brake soon.

2 major obstacles over come already, i'm unstoppable

putting it all together again, a breeze, even re wrapping the dyno cable, nothing, ez claps in the chat please

i'm suited and booted ready for a ride now i've put all the bits on, time to hit the suburban culdesac to check it doesn't fall to bits.

couple of pedal strokes, silent

little bump test, not a peep

brakes. ...... brakes??? .....brakes!!!!!

pulling on them felt like a putting your hand into mary berry's Victoria sponge, luckily the traffic flow was low enough that i didn't die, unfortunately, because if i did i wouldn't have to fix these now

the first one took some faff but eventually went together, nice and sharp, little tweak of the spring tension, a little swear word, nice, crisp, lovely.

the rear? the....rear

last night i added an extra link to my chain to better sit the wheel in the dimple, loads mor clearance now. the issue is however the humble trp8.4 is stretched to its absolute limit , with the pad so close to the pivot it's pretty much long pull now.

which in lies the issue, my brakes are short pull, no amount of tweaking was getting it to work, i pulled the cable in every which way, damn, i got a new cable and recut housing, nada, at best it now felt like a contestants attempt at a mary berry sponge.

the realisation that if i wanted this to work i'd have to buy yet more parts was setting in and it just felt so grim

the constant variables in setting up bikes, the differences, it's never ending and tbqh i think it's more tedious as this is my only bike, so i am now bikeless. makes me feel like an idiot for doing all this.

but we didn't woe too long, i thought "ah it's fine, i'll just make it fixed and deal with this in a month or so, it's fine"

go to my old wheel set, whip the lockring off, the cog, back to my new one

fucking

rydea

bb

lockring

i just wanted to promptly put it all in the green bin then climb in myself

it's in the shed now, half the bartape off, brake mushly set up , im eating tortilla chips and writing this

i think realistically i will buy some diacomp v brakes and long pull levers, maybe some wider bars at some point, but for now it's just in the shed

whomest is riding in january anyway?

it's all muddy and cold

honestly i just want the 3060ti's to restock then i can never touch a bike again as i will just be playing warcrime simulators.

anyway, here's a picture before i broke it

how did the person who displayed bravery for saying no to the disc, become the person to put a mtb on a turbo

the new era of DBAD must learn from histories mistakes

the berkshire lanes are much like the hillsides of japan, it has to be said

I have ordered some drill bits to drill this fork so I can actually install this light and adjust my brakes, i also ordered a hacksaw and some files so i could chop down this all day fork i traded for over summer.

we will then test fit both to see which one goes on permanently

on bar talk i completely agree, 40cm is unridable, dangerous and makes me look like an aero nerd, it's horrid. but alas, the bike works and it's pretty comfortable. I will spend the next month edging over a sjs basket order for some 46cm nitto noodle bars and diacompe levers, to put some cotton tape and oury grips on. hopefully inbetween now and the end of the month the brain worm exists my body

thank you, if they're delivered for tomorrow I will update how it goes B)

excellent, thank you!