Members' bikes

[Fi]

She looks lovely Woolly; well worth the time and effort.

[RogerT]

Woolly

That looks absolutely lovely.  Real class.

[Woofage]

Fantastic! Amazing improvement on Stella mark 1 that I saw on Sunday. Hard to believe it's the same bike

[ABlipInContinuity]

Woolly

That looks absolutely lovely.  Real class.

ditto!

[woollypigs]

Thanks all, just put a new sprocket on the back and boy does she ride great, she IS really a new bike

[bikenerd]

My 1946 Hill Special:

[woollypigs]

bikenerd : where do you live ? As I'm sure I saw that bike in Ealing/Greenford today.

[bikenerd]

bikenerd : where do you live ? As I'm sure I saw that bike in Ealing/Greenford today.

Oxford!  And it was definitely locked up outside the department all day!

[woollypigs]

I hope that it was too, so there is a copy cat in town.

[Chris N]

Bikenerd, that's lovely.

[scott]

Bikenerd--yours is very nice!

This is not my whole bike, but the part I just changed....



...from a 48/34 compact double (110bcd) to a 48/28 compact double (86bcd). Just an experiment to try something vaguely like an old French type of wide double, except that I'm also using a Megarange freewheel. So this setup has  bailout gear of 22.2 inches.

[Frenchie]

My 1946 Hill Special

Lur-ve-ly retro bike!

[Paul]

...from a 48/34 compact double (110bcd) to a 48/28 compact double (86bcd). Just an experiment to try something vaguely like an old French type of wide double, except that I'm also using a Megarange freewheel. So this setup has  bailout gear of 22.2 inches.

That's quite a spread, does it shift okay?

[Otto]

Here's My stable
Jake
Viner
Spez
and
Dahon

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[scott]

That's quite a spread, does it shift okay?

So far, knock wood, it's at least as good as the previous setup.

Rather than be scientific and change one component at a time, I switched from a Shimano 600 front derailleur (came with the original 52/42 road double) to an old "Deer Head" MTB model.

[bobajobrob]

Getting my tourer ready for LEJoG in two weeks! I have some kool stop pads coming to replace Shimano ones, but other than that it's ready to go. The chainset/cassette/chain will need replacing after this tour as they are looking a bit worn.

[mike]

my stable [I may nearly be at N ]

29er mtb:


pompino: (chain *could* probably be a bit tighter)


ebay colnago:


ugly audax bike, I know the forks look a bit odd, it's a long story...:


Condor barrachi:


folder:


and the new baby fixed:


full of ENO hubbed goodness..:

[woollypigs]

Mike : what folder is that, is that the Speed Pro, if so how does it ride on longer journeys ?

[mike]

it's the speed TR woolly (it's 3 or 4 years old - they used to be orange)

I've done a lot of 1 hour rides and a couple of 50 milers on it and it's pretty good.  I'm right on the size / weight limit for it which makes it a bit flexy, and the saddle has a weird clampy thing which means I cant fit a brooks, but apart from that it's nice.  Quite quick too - only about 1 or 2 mph slower over a 1 hour ride than a 'proper sized' bike. 

[Frenchie]

I have the Helios version of that frame and they are nippy. I am around 80kg and the frame fels quite stiff to me. I have doen a lot of similar rides to Mike's without problem. The saddle I-Beam clamp is disappearing on the new models; I bought a good I-Beam saddle from Palnet-X (sales) and that made a difference comnpared to the standard modle which was rubbish. Except for that, all good out of the box.

[Biff]

Not mine, but I don't see why I should suffer alone 



Dear Sweet Jesus 

[Chris S]

Not mine, but I don't see why I should suffer alone 

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Dear Sweet Jesus 

Oh Lordy - that's really nasty  .

[mike]

my word.  So far across on the ugly scale it almost makes it round the loop and back to beautiful.  Almost.



 

[kyuss]

OMG.   They've got the hip hop slave thing all wrong haven't they.

[bobajobrob]

Impressive!