I like the sound of all of this… not just because it involves buying an Endpoint.
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I think this is the natural progression of things. As disc-brake + Q/R frame sets become slowly outdated, they will supplant sweet vintage MTBs as the basis for rigid commuter basket bike builds.
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I’m seeing this happening already at the shop level. It’s a good thing for sure.
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Did some road riding on the drop bar '80s mtb that involved lots of long hills and I sort of enjoyed the 28-38-48 triple, but found myself sort of annoyed at the jumps at the close end of my 7 speed cassette. Going 21-26-32 was sort of jarring. I’m shifting Campy 8 speed shifters and RD on a Shimano 7 speed cassette, which is the same spacing.
The question my brain is too dumb to process is: can I squeeze 8 cogs of 7 speeds on this 8 speed hub? I could easily scoop up a different 7 speed cassette and throw the 24 and 28 cogs where the single 26 used to be. Right now there’s a 4.5mm spacer at the end of my 7speed cassette so it fits on the 8 speed hub; taking it out and adding another 5mm of 7 speed cog and spacer (1.85mm and 3.15mm) would put it .5mm over spec. Foolish to try? Give it a go?
shimano 7 and 8 have identical spacing and the “8 speed hub” is different in that it has the wider freehub to make the extra space for one more cog. not positive this translates to campy.
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I’ve been dicking with my Brooks saddle, replaced the frame, and having been trying to do the rivets. They wouldn’t sell me them in small qualities so now I have 100 of the mofos. Setting them has been a real bastard. Ive realized that a part of the problem is that the holes in the frame are wider than the rivet shank. Snotting them with a punch and hammer, with or without a washer is problematic. It is really hard to flatten these things. Snotting one often results in the one on the other side of the saddle vibrating loose, so it’s been pretty frustrating. In my latest attempt I hack-sawed a rivet down the middle and so far I think this has worked the best. Some of you guys understand metals, so if you have any advice, wade in. My tools are limited and my only hard surface is a flat surface on my unattached vise.
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What punch are you using?
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I hate setting that type of rivet, we use them occasionally for bags and it’s really difficult to get them to seat firmly and look good. I make sure the flat side is firmly on an anvil and use an old blunt punch to seat the donut, clip off the long side until there’s 3-4mm showing, then peen it down with a concave tool
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I am using a concave punch, pretty much exactly like @cheese technique . Experimented with using the dough nut or not, and trimming or not.
Have you considered a modern road or gravel bike for this purpose? Maybe a Road and Tarck bike?
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we talking grand or super grand sport here?
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Update! Was once again trying to get my back brakes to not squeal, so I threw on a different wheel to see if it was a squeaky rim or the cantis themselves. (Quickly figured out that it’s my cantis. Duh.) This was my 10 speed wheel, so I threw on my spare 10 speed RD and sure enough, the 8-speed ergopower shifters shift the first eight cogs just fine, and then do zilch for the last two. I could keep pushing the paddle, but there were no clicks, no additional tension getting added. If you wanna do a wide range 1x or 2x with campy 8spd shifters, you’re looking at an 8 speed cassette! It would indeed be fun to do a clutched 10spd RD for an ergopower 2x8, but I think the cadences would be annoying.
Now to convince myself that I should just get another set of CX50s so I can put these smooth post M730 cantis in my parts bin.
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another set of CX50s
I love that CX50s and CX70s open up wide enough to clear fat tires like old cantis. But I when I ride them in the winter the pivots seize. The first couple of times it happened I was able to loosen them up, but recently I had to trash a pair when one side wouldn’t budge. Granted I let them get gunked up with salty water and probably didn’t clean them enough. But I mistreated my Tektros for years and they were never a problem.
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I had too much unstructured time over the weekend and realized that if I consume another brake, brake lever, tire, and a crown race, I can easily swap back and forth between the clyde fork for cargo and the stock endpoint fork for sweet hybrid vibes. Can one bike do it all? Maybe.
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Maybe it can do it all, but will you actually go through the effort of switching back and forth?
Once for sure, maybe even twice.
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Sounds like you’re only a frame and rear wheel away from a sw8 fixie mullet.
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Two bikes. The answer is two bikes
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FTFM, soon
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