Gravel-Elvis has left the building.
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HY @igor !
Congrats on the level of success y’all have going over there, hope the move was smooth.
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Dang that’s so huge. I remember going to the original VO shop on West St. a few times. So awesome. Good job @igor
But this is blowing my mind:
Rando framesets. They are rim brake, 700c, and very spritely
Well shit, in TYOOL 2021 someone is designing a steel, rim brake roadie.
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I missed it but the granola moose looks perfectly weird
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Ah shucks thank you!
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three cheers for igor not only saving the brand but making it relevant nuevo fop in the best way possible
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Oooh yeah had not seen that. I need some bars for a Kona Humuhumunukunukuapua’a project.
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Perfect accessory bag opportunity right there.
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we’re on the same wavelength.
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Road dot cc is going in on some hardcore investigative journalism regarding the Shimano Hollowtech crank failure phenomenon:
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the comments are a class action lawyer’s dream
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Not defending Shimano here, but it’s funny to me that most of the catastrophic failures seem to be preceded by some noticeable creaking, but most of these cranks are probably on bikes with press-fit BBs so riders just ignore it until the driveside crank explodes
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that’s right I’m bloggin: The Trash Bike Roller-Cam Brake Project From Hell Fuji Sundance
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I mean absent a public awareness campaign about the explodey cranks, I would also 100% assume that a creaking noise from that part of the bike was the bb-frame, the pedal spindle-crank, or chainring bolt-spider, not the whole entire fucking crankarm getting ready to flower open like a bloomin onion
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The SunTour roller cams with linear springs were sooo much nicer than the later versions.
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one thing that’s been fun working on like a half dozen different canti, u-brake, and now roller-cam systems is you can see little methods reused in different applications. Like the old shimano u-brakes on my girlfriend’s bike have similar tight springs to these but adjust the tension with a tiny screw that works against the end of the spring. Same system on the Shimano cantis of the day on the front of the bike. Meanwhile my modern CX-70s use the long springs like on the other suntour roller cams, but adjust the tension not with a recessed tiny screw that takes a 2.5mm hex but with an external hex head. Lots of different variations on a theme of pushing a lever against a rim and having a spring to return it to place.
Have you happened across a set of Scott Pedersen SE brakes yet? I know they were available in both canti and U-brake versions.
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these look amazing! I’ll keep an eye out for them on my usual forlorn-rusted-abandoned-lockup-mtb bikespotting adentures. Meanwhile if anyone ever finds a bike with some of Shimano’s aero-rollercams, do NOT let me know, for my bank account’s sake.
my dad has the pederson SE’s on a fisher gemini tandem. i think there was a warning to not use them on the front or something. in any case they’ve effectively slowed us quickly at the bottom of a 60mph descent
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