Recent content by LumPi Panda

Head's been full of other busy for the last few weeks, I really ought to dig this out again. I'm currently making a factory model for work which is taking up most of my three-dimensional capacity. It needs to have a lift-off roof and internal layout details. Although it sounds quite boring...

What's a "bicycle ride"?

Thanks Baron. I'd love to take orders, but I suspect that the probable cost and waiting times would scare most people away. I've never properly added it up, but the Yeti build at a reasonable hourly labour rate, plus materials, would likely be similar money to the real one. That's the problem...

You may need to make the hole in the rocker bigger. I've fitted a purple one to a set of RC35 AB, and had to bore the hole out a bit. I may still have the original rocker if you can stand waiting until the weekend to find out.

...Safely returned from the Cairngorms. Had a truly spectacular time, thanks for asking. Climbed through the cloud up Braeriach from Rothiemurcus, descended into Garbh Choire and spent the night there. Then walked out via the Lairig Ghru. Magical. Saw six people in three days, four of them were...

Nine minutes after the above photo was taken, this photo was taken...

Went for a walk this weekend, up Braeriach in the Cairngorms via the Sron Na Lairige route. An absolutely outstanding couple of days. Climbed into the clouds for about 2-3 hours...

That's probably it for a couple of weeks now. I'm off into the mountains weekend after next, so should probably use my time getting kit together for that rather than messing on with tiny bicycles.

Started work on the hubs over the weekend, and also dropped my phone from a height onto a flagstone floor. Thus, no photos of the rear hub going together. Various bits of brass tube, laser cut Rowmark plastic flanges and filler to build up the profile. Rowmark is less brittle than acrylic so...

...and some tiny tools.

Spent lunchtime today cutting the little fluted bits in the dropouts. Not a spectacular amount of progress, but it's details like this that make the difference. The dropouts are now glued on and the rear triangle feels loads more solid for it. I've started thinking probably hubs next, and...

In other news, I've started filling the tapers on the stays.

Thanks CTK. Shrink ray gun? shhhhhhh. don't tell anyone.

Thanks Frankenorange. The 1:1 frame is going to get resprayed sometime soon as a favour from a mate of the bloke. The dent is a result of the incident that finally put the Ritchey out of serious service and opened the door for my Kevin Winter custom hardtail. It has spent the last ten years as...

You talk a lot of sense. This, and your point about treating machines as apprentices that you made in the Yeti build are bang on. As for the soldering, it was done with a butane pen. I looked into different melt solders for exactly the reason you suggest, but impatience and experimentation got...