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Pretty much the reasons I started painting stuff myself. As I’ve said, I’m definitely not a pro and my paintjobs are an acquired taste but with the combination of zinc primer, a pigment heavy paint and a heavy duty lacquer I’m satisfied that they are anti corrosive, durable, affordable, quick...

Afaik, most people doing wet paint on bike frames will be using a primer with some sort of anti corrosive property. I am certainly not a pro painter but I use a zinc rich primer which gives anodic protection so that even when chipped or scratched enough to expose bare metal, it still shouldn’t...

The cable can make a big difference to how a mechanical disc brake feels. I’ll bet 9 out of 10 bike manufacturers are cheaping out and speccing non compatible outers. It’s been a while since I did drops and discs but Ive certainly used road bb7s and Tektro singlespeed drop bar levers together...

I repair cracked frames and a ‘kind of recent’ powdercoating job seems to be a common denominator in these frames that develop cracks. I’ve spoken to people in other industries who have told me that if they blast one side of a sheet of steel it’ll become concave/vex and the other side must be...

In addition to the above, I’d bargain on wheelbuild labour being a bit more than £50 for a pair of wheels, especially if you are supplying used parts which a) means no mark up these parts for the builder/shop and b) they can be significantly harder to build with depending on the condition. Imo...

The heat in the oven isn’t what you need to be worried about, it’s the heavy handed operator of the blasting equipment who is more used to smashing his way through thick layers of paint and rust on a handrail that’s made of tubing that’s about 10x as heavily walled as bicycle tubing. He’ll ****...

They are already moving to refine that a bit with Cues though right?

Dunno about those WI cranks. The axle will be aluminium which I think is a bit of a no-no from aliexpress. I have a set of cheapo Aliexpress cranks on a road bike but I chose them specifically for the steel spindle. Also, that £85 is gonna be well over £100 by the time you checkout yeah...

Absolutely, but the 'Support your local LBS' trope gets rolled out whenever the online cycle retail industry is mentioned and I feel it's wise to have in mind that not everyone's LBS is deserving of support. FWIW, once I ride past the moany guy and get to the next nearest LBS, he is amazing...

This is a narrative that needs to stop. My LBS is owned and run by a dour faced ****. When I was last working in an LBS the owner was racist, mysoginistic and homophobic. Nobody owes these people a living.

Yes please. I’ll pm you.

Cheers.

Thanks! Made them and the fork and did the frame mods (bottle bosses, headtube chop and face and bb chop, re-tap and face, canti posts and cable routing) myself. Built the wheels too.

Tis week I are been mostly pimping my Raleigh Twenny

Stockpiling what? CRC/wiggle are barely competitive on price these days.

They look alright eh?! I’ve just splashed on some real touring cantis, should I get hooky levers to go with them…?

Fancy posting some photos? I've been tempted by the Klampers but I can't decide if it's bad chat buying fakes of stuff from a relatively smll company. I've interacted with Paul on insta a few times, I'm pretty sure he'd be pissed off if he saw me running fake stuff.

You’ve never paired a crappy open cam qr skewer with a moderately powerful brake? Have you even lived?! I’ve never pulled a wheel right out a fork but definitely caused it to shift within the dropouts. Lawyer lips did their job. The jackshaft stuff is awesome. Way beyond where I am in terms...

Ah ok, I didn’t appreciate that you weren’t using the tensioners to account for chain length change. You added the jack shafts yourself? That’s pretty cool. Can I ask how you found the Bolt? I’m about to start building a concentric bb pivot frame but I’ve heard/read that as a suspension design...

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