Recent content by Thias

Maybe you can find one of those bi-plane forks? Might fit the theme.

XT would be too obvious? Maybe LX then. :lol: Nice looking frame though. Might look good with a set of neon yellow racelines.

That red looks great! How do you paint the parts of the frame that it is resting on? Did you hang it on something and only put it down when it was dry?

Its a Sachs, or rather '99 or later SRAM. Plasma. https://www.retrobike.co.uk/gallery2/v/Manufacturer+Archive/SRAM/1999/1999+-+SRAM+3.jpg.html Edit joglo was faster. :D

Good looking bike despite coming out of the parts bin. Also only took 9 years 😁

Me personally, I think it fits this part of the forum quite nicely. No rear sus. No disk brakes. No weirdly shaped frame tubing...

I'd say its 97 or 98, but I'm not too sure. 96 would have had bottle cage mounts underneath the lower tube. And in 99 there was no Pulse mentioned in the catalogue any more...

Nice looking project. I like it. The frame seems to be a "pulse comp" Trek era frame. The pre Trek pulses (and the Pulse IIs ) had internal cable routing. About the "missing" canti hanger, you can buy seat clamps with integrated stops. Or use one of those stops that are attached to/by the seat...

They are underneath the clear wrap.

They are not meant to peel. In bad cases I have successfully peeled them and replaced them with a car wrap type of protective wrap. In even worse cases I glued a coca-cola or beercap on top of the XT-cap. And lastly, as a last resort, I made new Aluminium covers on my lathe. Pics for inspiration:

We just had that same discussion at the German classic forums. Seems to me, that all that money printing is showing its ugly side effects. People struggle to pay the bills. Food and basic necessities become more and more expensive. The rent! The stuff that you can't postpone to buy. No money...

I want to tidy up my cave. And the garage, too. Not sure I'll make it though. I started yesterday by goin' downstairs and looking at the mess for a few minutes. :eek: Then tactical retreat. I need to regroup and make more plans, I guess. Watch a few vids on the YT about DIY shelving and cheap...

Pics or didn't happen. :D

Ok. So I indeed misunderstood your question. I never had the problem, that a 8spd chain would rub on the neighboring crank chainrings. Although that may be due to me usually not using the full "range" of gears. I tend to avoid the "extremes" like smallest front to smallest rear. I do remember...

Why did you want to use a 9spd chain on a 7spd setup? If everything other than the crank is 7spd, even the cassette, just use a 7/8spd chain and be happy. 7spd cassette+ 9spd chain is not a good match. Except you have 9spd chain already on the shelf, but don't have the 20 quid to buy a new...