Show us what you did today, thread

[ajm]

Re:

If my experience is anything to go by, you'd be as well leaving the chain and ring off the tagalong - the weight saving will probably be more helpful than the passenger's "pedalling"

 

[gmac123]

:facepalm: :facepalm: a wee semi retro road project

Donohue by gmac123, on Flickr

 

[Jamiedyer]

Thats a lovely looking Paul Donohue frame.
Is that newly acquired mate or has it been waiting patiently in the shed?
Not take much to get that running beautifully as it looks in good condition already, well, maybe not the seat
More pics please

Jamie

 

[gmac123]

Winging its way, wasn't really in the market, but it's a bike from a certain era.

swayed by the British steel, 1st gen integrated sti's / 1st ultegra reference (aka 600 tri colour) including hubs and seat pin (which might not be long enough :facepalm: )and straight forks.

Not sure what that saddle is :shock: but it is shocker. Have a blue flite and black rolls to choose from.

Need a
120 stem
44cm bars (tho have 42 criteriums out there)
Chain and 8 speed cassette
Blocks, cables, races and tape.

Sounds like the right sti needs a rebuild, which I'm not looking forward to.

All good fun, I hope

 

[firedfromthecircus]

Not sure about the saddle! What about the stem?

Nice project though. What tubing is it? Looks pretty fat.

 

[gmac123]

yeah the saddle's odd, the stem looks like a ahead mtb I assume with a stalk. by the looks of the h/set it's a convention threaded, so thinking about a 3TTT quill stem and bars

the tubing is Reynolds 725, so nothing exotic, thin walled, heat treated, tig weld cro-mo

 

[firedfromthecircus]

725 is good tubing though. Just the downtube in particular looks quite oversized so made me wonder. Different kind of bike I know, but my Genesis Fortitude is 725 and I love the ride.

 

[gmac123]

yeah, Genesis seem particularly fond of 725, noticed the CDF and Equilibrium are also made from this steel

 

[Jamiedyer]

Was a lovely day up here today, sun shining, not much more than a light breeze and a bit of heat in the air
There was a heavy Haar sitting just off shore so we couldn't see Hoy but it never hit land all morning and cleared about 1pm or so. The wind was strange for here as it was due east, whereas we normally get hit with it straight from the west. I had a few things to sort this morning and cleared the afternoon so I could get a few miles in. When i say cleared the afternoon, I really mean cleared it with Heather (not that thats ever a problem )
Anyway just before 1 I set off and thought I would do a sort of figure of eight type route, basically from home out to Greenland, Duran and Gillock then into Thurso from the south. There I stopped at the bike shop and picked up a seat clamp for Calebs bike, that was meant to be a quick in and back on the road but we started chatting over a lovely Bob Jackson that was in for sale and also a local Mercian mtb that was in. I knew this local had one built especially but this was the first time I have seen it. Really nice with full XTR 9 speed and carbon bars etc. Nice but I preferred the Bob Jackson myself An older one but spotless, looks like its just left the shop, but it does get ridden as I've seen it about.
So back on the road and headed out along the coast to the west past Dounray and onto Reay. This bit was a nice quick run. I then turned east back towards the farms of Westfeild and onto Thurso. This is where I realised the easterly wind had increased a good bit and while not too bad it was just a consistant slog. I stopped and took a picture at a wind farm and you can see I'm heading straight into it. So a slow grind back to Thurso then on out to Castletown, back onto the Greenland road and home. All the second half into the easterly. A great run regardless. I was just a couple short of 100klms. I arrived home to Heather having dinner ready, a nice homemade Chinese feast Spoiled, I know.
Then straight after dinner it was out with Calebs tag along and seat clamp now fitted and all three of us went out for a ride round the block, which is about a mile and a half. Heather took the tag along for most of it and I rolled round on my 1X1.
I did get a chance to try out my new wheels today on a longer run and they were great, never an issue, as expected. Normally though I run Hutchinson tyres and these have some nice Continentals fitted and they were good tyres grip wise but I am not sure whether it was the tyres or the hubs but they make a different sound to my Ultegras, not noisy just different. They sometimes made me think there was a car coming up from behind, I'm sure its the tyres.
Hopefully its nice tomorrow and between getting the lawns mown and Amstel Gold race in the afternoon I can get some miles in on the Trucker. I need to get some longer miles and time in the saddle if I am hoping to even hint at finishing Brians crazy Audax run of 400klms in 27 hours.
Anyway I hope everyone else had the sunshine and managed to get out for a ride, or at least had some down time. As usual heres a few pics, such a nice day I just had to share.
Jamie





Looking south west


From the west, looking back to the east and Thurso in the foreground and Dunnett Head in the back ground


Looking west from Dounray Facilty


heading east into the wind








Time for a shave me thinks

 

[firedfromthecircus]

I arrived home to Heather having dinner ready, a nice homemade Chinese feast Spoiled, I know.

Spoiled indeed!

Sounds like the perfect day there Jamie, and a nice matching Merckx jersey as well.

No riding for me yesterday but not too bothered as I had a good run on the moonie on thursday and should get out today or tomorrow. Did get the seatpost finished and re-built my wifes bike after it's pregnancy related exile in the loft!

So the post has gone from this

to this.