And today I did......

[epicyclo]

Took the fripperies off my BMW R100RT.

What a piece of crap design that fairing is from the viewpoint of accessibility. I was tempted to saw it off but restrained myself. It came off eventually but at the expense assorted fresh meat off my knuckles.

I should have been riding my bike instead, but this was a guilt job I've been putting off.

 

[Yogi bear]

Today I wasted my time building wheel!

As one of my lock down projects, I am re arranging all my Hubs, rims and spokes! Over the years all my wheels have become very mish mashed. Non paired rims on wheels, different types of spokes between front and rears, different coloured nipples etc. So after a lot of searching and driving and postage costs, I finally am almost there. I have dismantled and rebuilt what seems like a lot of wheels and sometimes for almost trivial things (nipple colour change) and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Today I built what should have been my penultimate wheel. Managed to wangle a delivery of spokes from my LBS which was an effort.
Finish lacing the wheel only to realise that the LBS had given me an assortment of different nipples! :x :x :x :x
Logic says to ignore it, who is going to notice anyway??? But the whole point of the exercise was to sort out the oddments of wheels that I had!
Cant go back to LBS to sort it because of the lock down, so new box of alloy nipples order from fleabay. Only have to wait best part of a week before they will probably arrive. Oh well, now I will have to rebuild the front from this pair too just to put matching nipples on it.
The chore of having too much time on your hands.
On a better note, just had a frame back from being blasted, time to get prepping for paint.

 

[velomaniac]

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Edit: Removed depressed person talk, content was not worth reading, sorry.

 

[epicyclo]

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...Please be glad I am trying to still be involved and stop raining on my parade.

Mate, I can't imagine anyone here who would do that deliberately. You are well respected and a good person.

 

[Jamiedyer]

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Hey mate,
I’m not seeing that going on Velo, I’m just seeing a bit of banter about disc brakes.
I’m not into discs at all so have nothing to add but I didn’t see anyone having a go at someone personally. Just banter and differing opinions
Take care and stay safe
Jamie

 

[velomaniac]

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Sorry to all, Black Dogs are savaging me at the moment :-(

 

[jimo746]

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Velo, I think we are all interested to see your bike build, it would be remiss of us in Macretroland if someone hadn't pointed out the pitfalls of a man of your stature using such a tiny frame in the first instance.
As for the brakes, I think that's just different opinions. I've used the Giant brakes before and they were fine. If that's what you've got to hand then just go with them (if you need spares or discs for them let me know as I've an old derelict set of MPH brakes hanging up in the shed, it's too much effort to try and renovate them if it's even possible, but they may be handy for spares).

Dyna, thanks for the offer but I've sold off my Hope brakes a while back, I got fed up with compatibility issues and the myriad of caliper sizes etc.
Just give me simple Post mount brakes any day of the week!

 

[dyna-ti]

Oh god i hate pm. IS you can shim with super thin washers but pm its eye, and i can never line it up exactly. Constantly tapping one side or the other.

On that note I saw the greatest minor design change to him mountainbike discbrakes ever in their history, but i cant remember whos brake I saw it on.
The mount has a grub screw on the side where the bolt goes through to mount it to frame/fork.
Looks like you can line up exactly but turning it to in turn push against the mounting bolt, then when aligned you can tighten.


I though it was Avid, but they appear not to be doing hydraulic now. Its actually such a good idea I'm thinking of drilling and tapping a hole through one of my older post mount brakes to see if it will work.
Found it - Hayes
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/hay ... prod188905

Always the problem lining up the 4 pots. tap the front the back also can move a little. back forth, back forth and in the end its still only down to eye judgement.

 

[velomaniac]

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I have some cheapo mechanical disk brakes with a floating caliper. As mechanicals go they're not bad but I presume this floating idea has flaws ?

 

[dyna-ti]

If it stops you fine but there is a glut of decent brakes on ebay.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hope-Tech-3- ... 7675.l2557