Author Topic: Members' bikes (Read 2458873 times)

Riggers · « **Reply #6725 on:** 18 November, 2013, 09:06:08 am »

That is a lovely looking bike Hulvers.

"Down Jealousy, down boy!!"

slope · « **Reply #6726 on:** 21 November, 2013, 07:19:07 pm »

Winter shopping bike - salt already on roads - so I figure LSD paint job is best

Schwalbe Winter studded tyres broken in and ready - yee ha!

GT Karakoram '92 by obswerve, on Flickr

Joe.B · « **Reply #6727 on:** 21 November, 2013, 08:58:01 pm »

Slope; has anyone ever told you that your bike has a very pleasing symmetry about it.

slope · « **Reply #6728 on:** 21 November, 2013, 09:34:39 pm »

Quote from: Joe.B on 21 November, 2013, 08:58:01 pm

Slope; has anyone ever told you that your bike has a very pleasing symmetry about it.

No, you're the first

It's a series of accidents

Paul · « **Reply #6729 on:** 21 November, 2013, 11:17:48 pm »

Quote from: slope on 21 November, 2013, 07:19:07 pm

Winter shopping bike - salt already on roads - so I figure LSD paint job is best

Schwalbe Winter studded tyres broken in and ready - yee ha!

GT Karakoram '92 by obswerve, on Flickr

Lots of lovely stuff going on there. That back brake is especially interesting. Is it original, and is it any good?

FYI, if you're ever interested in a set of campy cantis with matching flat bar levers, I might be able to help.

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #6730 on:** 22 November, 2013, 07:00:29 am »

The rear brake is the stock U-brake. Heavy but good for heel clearance. Different braze-ons to cantilevers, obviously.

slope · « **Reply #6731 on:** 22 November, 2013, 08:02:24 am »

Quote from: Paul on 21 November, 2013, 11:17:48 pm

Lots of lovely stuff going on there. That back brake is especially interesting. Is it original, and is it any good?

FYI, if you're ever interested in a set of campy cantis with matching flat bar levers, I might be able to help.

As LWB ^ said, original Shimano DX U brake = pile of industrial inelegant junk really, but works with some effort (possibly because it's mis-married to a modern V brake lever?)

Thanks for the Campag canti + lever offer, but I don't DO cantilever brakes no more

I would however be interested in another pair of Campag thumbshifters. Centaur or Olympus rear mech as well as another Centaur chainset

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #6732 on:** 22 November, 2013, 08:12:03 am »

U-brakes matched to the correct lever (preferably 3 or 4 finger) work quite nicely. V-brake levers mean a stopping power reduction.

slope · « **Reply #6733 on:** 22 November, 2013, 08:38:20 am »

Quote from: LittleWheelsandBig on 22 November, 2013, 08:12:03 am

U-brakes matched to the correct lever (preferably 3 or 4 finger) work quite nicely. V-brake levers mean a stopping power reduction.

Yeah but non matching brake levers would alter my kosmik energy, leave alone fuck with the symmetry

God is the most powerful back brake anyhow

tom_e · « **Reply #6734 on:** 22 November, 2013, 10:13:20 am »

You can get SRAM levers with adjustable leverage*, so they'd be matching but you might be able to set them up asymmetrically to work better. Not sure I'd bother since it's only the back brake though. ~~It's probably easier just to buy another V-brake.~~

* Speed Dial 7 is the most straightforward.

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #6735 on:** 22 November, 2013, 10:24:39 am »

A V-brake won't fit on U-brake braze-ons.

tom_e · « **Reply #6736 on:** 22 November, 2013, 10:27:43 am »

Ah, I hadn't realised that.

Paul · « **Reply #6737 on:** 23 November, 2013, 08:39:13 am »

Quote from: LittleWheelsandBig on 22 November, 2013, 07:00:29 am

The rear brake is the stock U-brake. Heavy but good for heel clearance. Different braze-ons to cantilevers, obviously.

Completely new to me. I hadn't spotted that the braze-ons were higher up.

Quote from: slope on 22 November, 2013, 08:02:24 am

Thanks for the Campag canti + lever offer, but I don't DO cantilever brakes no more I would however be interested in another pair of Campag thumbshifters. Centaur or Olympus rear mech as well as another Centaur chainset

Sorry - can't help.

finch · « **Reply #6738 on:** 25 November, 2013, 05:38:08 pm »

Still using the same bike I got off bloomers on here but I've changed a bit or two here and there . Still not convinced I like the aesthetic of the wheels but I'm pretty happy with how it looks

Still hankering over a pair of ksyriums with the silver bits between the spokies

Ray 6701 · « **Reply #6739 on:** 26 November, 2013, 12:47:50 pm »

Quote from: finch on 25 November, 2013, 05:38:08 pm

Still using the same bike I got off bloomers on here but I've changed a bit or two here and there . Still not convinced I like the aesthetic of the wheels but I'm pretty happy with how it looks

Still hankering over a pair of ksyriums with the silver bits between the spokies

Very nice Finch but would look better with the Ksyrium elites

Torslanda · « **Reply #6740 on:** 27 November, 2013, 12:32:21 am »

Quote from: fungus on 26 November, 2013, 12:47:50 pm

Quote from: finch on 25 November, 2013, 05:38:08 pm

Still hankering over a pair of ksyriums with the silver bits between the spokies

Very nice Finch but would look better with the Ksyrium elites

I can put my hands on a pair of SSLs with new bearings in for £notalot . . .

rabbit · « **Reply #6741 on:** 27 November, 2013, 08:54:30 am »

Bikeys:

Roadie. £250 secondhand bargain to which I have just added some even-more-bargain wheels. Cost less than the brakes on my other bikes, yet has done miles and miles and miles since I picked it up at the end of the summer.

XC trail bike - rides everywhere, albeit sluggishly without a bit of gravity to help. Wishing I had waited a year and got slightly bigger wheels.

Favourite bike - comes with me to work and has been to many places, urban and rural.

Downhill bike - new frame, just getting him set up, but now feels amazing.

Riggers · « **Reply #6742 on:** 27 November, 2013, 11:20:22 am »

Lovely bikes. Perhaps you'd like to do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReqNYT2bkcI on the new down-hiller!!!!!!

No Sir! Not for me. Scary stuff.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #6743 on:** 27 November, 2013, 11:53:10 am »

Just watching him bounce over all those steps gives me a headache! Beautiful place.

Oscar's dad · « **Reply #6744 on:** 27 November, 2013, 01:07:52 pm »

Quote from: bumper on 25 October, 2013, 02:18:35 pm

Prepare the mind bleach!

Noooo! I've just taken delivery of some Midge bars and wanted to look at your photo to see how you've got them set up! Put the photo back where it belongs!!!

bumper · « **Reply #6745 on:** 27 November, 2013, 01:10:27 pm »

I can still see it.

I'll dig it out and post again, photobucket mobile is broken on my iPad and iPhone.

Oscar's dad · « **Reply #6746 on:** 27 November, 2013, 01:11:33 pm »

Quote from: bumper on 27 November, 2013, 01:10:27 pm

I can still see it.

I'll dig it out and post again, photobucket mobile is broken on my iPad and iPhone.

bumper · « **Reply #6747 on:** 27 November, 2013, 01:31:52 pm »

As promised

Oscar's dad · « **Reply #6748 on:** 27 November, 2013, 01:35:07 pm »

Perfect, thanks very much, can't wait to get them set up. Does anyone have a few hours they can lend me, all mine seem to be used up at the moment

bumper · « **Reply #6749 on:** 27 November, 2013, 01:41:06 pm »

It won't take long to fit them and swap stuff over. What shifters are you using?