Author Topic: Members' bikes  (Read 2387137 times)

rogerzilla

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9125 on: 20 April, 2021, 04:24:32 pm »
Is that a surfboard in your pannier?
Or are you just pleased to see me?
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9126 on: 21 April, 2021, 09:01:07 am »
Is that a surfboard in your pannier?
Ironing board! The iron is in the other one...

rogerzilla

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9127 on: 21 April, 2021, 11:36:55 am »
And I thought taking a teapot camping with me was excessive.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Oscar's dad

  • aka Septimus Fitzwilliam Beauregard Partridge
Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9128 on: 21 April, 2021, 01:18:50 pm »
Is that a surfboard in your pannier?
Ironing board! The iron is in the other one...

An easy mistake to make!  Begs the questions: is it possible to surf using an ironing board and can you do the ironing on a surfboard?

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9129 on: 21 April, 2021, 05:54:18 pm »
Can certainly do the washing using the surface

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9130 on: 21 April, 2021, 06:04:26 pm »
Extreme ironing beckons




rogerzilla

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9131 on: 21 April, 2021, 06:56:01 pm »
I always thought Minas Tirith had an excellent ironing board, in case those big chaps from the Argonath needed to do their shirts.

Minas Tirith by Guardian Images, on Flickr
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Blodwyn Pig

  • what a nice chap
Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9132 on: 20 January, 2022, 06:29:44 pm »
IMG_2255 by mark tilley, on Flickr


Haven't posted up a pic of Olive for a couple of years, still going strong.

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9133 on: 19 May, 2022, 05:30:53 pm »
'Gravel' bike more or less ready for Ridgeway ride, from Wantage area to Avebury & beyond - in the dry... 

PXL_Saracen Powertrax 1995 by a oxon, on Flickr
Cycle and recycle.   SS Wilson

ElyDave

  • Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society member 263583
Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9134 on: 06 July, 2022, 07:43:26 pm »
Love it ^^^^^

I'm still riding my contemporary green machine

Meanwhile, two boxes have arrived

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9135 on: 06 July, 2022, 07:44:26 pm »
Faran?
Riding a concrete path through the nebulous and chaotic future.

ElyDave

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9136 on: 06 July, 2022, 07:53:50 pm »
Even better, Faran 2.0  ;)
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ElyDave

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9137 on: 07 July, 2022, 07:21:14 pm »



Long steerer


f for fork or f for faran?

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9138 on: 07 July, 2022, 08:45:36 pm »
Neither, front  :demon:
the slower you go the more you see

IanDG

  • The p*** artist formerly known as 'Windy'
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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9139 on: 07 July, 2022, 11:06:55 pm »
My Surly Cross-Check - now with On-One Jeff bars, similar to Jones H loop but <1/3 of the price  :)

P1020149 by ian, on Flickr

ElyDave

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9140 on: 08 July, 2022, 08:31:52 pm »
Round things



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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9141 on: 08 July, 2022, 08:42:33 pm »
Looking forward to seeing the Fairlight built up, looks promising. And it looks as if there is a guide in that lovely fork for the dynamo wire - there was no guide in the fork I recently ran a wire through and it wasn’t much fun until I had an idea that worked within a minute.

Blodwyn Pig

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9142 on: 08 July, 2022, 09:37:41 pm »
Looking forward to seeing the Fairlight built up, looks promising. And it looks as if there is a guide in that lovely fork for the dynamo wire - there was no guide in the fork I recently ran a wire through and it wasn’t much fun until I had an idea that worked within a minute.

Do tell. ::-)

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9143 on: 08 July, 2022, 09:58:40 pm »
After much messing about trying to use an old Bowden cable through as a guide / puller and it repeatedly becoming detached at the critical moment - very tight fit - I abandoned all that, reverted to just dropping the wire itself down after feeding a loop of stiff fishing line in through the lower hole, and pulled the loop out + wire when the dynamo wire had dropped through the loop.

I do think describing a fork with a hole near the bottom of one leg as “dynamo cable ready” is being not entirely truthful.

ElyDave

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9144 on: 08 July, 2022, 10:06:31 pm »
Looking forward to seeing the Fairlight built up, looks promising. And it looks as if there is a guide in that lovely fork for the dynamo wire - there was no guide in the fork I recently ran a wire through and it wasn’t much fun until I had an idea that worked within a minute.

I don't know about a guide (yet) but if you look at the design notes there are ports all over the place to run Di2 or dynamo cables.  I'll be going battery rear light to start with, but may go dyno eventually.  All the control cables are conventionally external which was one of my purchase criteria.
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9145 on: 08 July, 2022, 10:10:03 pm »
Looking forward to seeing the Fairlight built up, looks promising. And it looks as if there is a guide in that lovely fork for the dynamo wire - there was no guide in the fork I recently ran a wire through and it wasn’t much fun until I had an idea that worked within a minute.

I don't know about a guide (yet) but if you look at the design notes there are ports all over the place to run Di2 or dynamo cables.  I'll be going battery rear light to start with, but may go dyno eventually.  All the control cables are conventionally external which was one of my purchase criteria.

Your fork will have a guide I am sure, it being of more recent design and higher end than the Surly one I refer to.

ElyDave

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Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9146 on: 10 July, 2022, 08:00:38 pm »
brakes fitted, first time using flat mount, can you see what I did wrong?


Thats a bit better - oddly TRP do not send mounting screws with the rear adapter, only with the front.  I had some to hand


Starting to look a bit like a bike - not sure whether to get it mechanically complete before getting the steerer cut, will call the LBS tomorrow.
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens

Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9147 on: 10 July, 2022, 08:47:25 pm »
brakes fitted, first time using flat mount, can you see what I did wrong?

Whoops! Easy to miss the obvious (upside down) when one’s mind is on the many other things that need to be got right. Looking pretty good there so far.

Is that Thudbuster?

ElyDave

  • Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society member 263583
Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9148 on: 10 July, 2022, 08:51:39 pm »
XLC version, about half the price

Only thing annoying me right now itself scrappy old rhs shifter vs the new list version, I'm strongly channeling the f for function rather than for form
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ElyDave

  • Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society member 263583
Re: Members' bikes
« Reply #9149 on: 11 July, 2022, 10:25:17 pm »
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” –Charles Dickens