I like it. And the wheels don’t really bother me at all, it’s not like they’re some paired-spoke BS. The white spokes look OK with everything else black and the white frame logo.
Bigger pic:
what bars are those?
Thems the 3T Ergo Power MEX, can be found cheap at Planet X/On-one. But not in your preferred width of 44ish, IIRC. When I got mine they had 42’s and thats what mine are.
Awesome bars.
nah I love bars in the 40/41cm c-c range
should order some of those, gotta start hoarding real deep drops
Ah then I just got it wrong, hoard away!
Photo page here: New bars, wheels, tyres, brakes | Travel mode. | ah_blake | Flickr for the non flickr static url decoders.
ordered a bunch of parts for a couple bikes. rebuilding the old kona mtb for sale with a 1x9 x.0 gripshift drivetrain for shits and giggles. kinda stoked to take it out to the trails for a test ride once it’s together.
new stem and post coming for the road bike too.
Photo page here: New bars, wheels, tyres, brakes | Travel mode. | ah_blake | Flickr for the non flickr static url decoders.[/quote]
Does that rear brake cable rub on the TT coupler? Looks kinda close, possible optical illusion.
figured out the compression plug in the road bike was loose, causing the headset to perpetually get a tiny bit of play in it. glad that is sorted out.
also rotated the bars down and levers up. holy shit is that better on the hands. can’t wait to ride it tomorrow without the gumpy plastic edges of the lever body digging into my hands.
shifted the bike in the stand a bunch and wished the force was better. i dunno what it is but it seems to take an excessive amount of force (ha!) applied to the shift levers to get them to do their thing. like, it honestly kinda hurts my arthritic hands a little bit
brake and gear both rest on the coupler. For some reason CM don’t use the taller cable stops. Non issue though, it’s never going to wear through.
About a year and a half ago, my sweetie was thinking about maybe trying out cycling and wanted to get a bicycle. But she didn’t want to spend much money on it, so pretty much forbade me from buying one, and then found an ancient 26" Murray Baja at a yard sale and paid out a whopping $5 for it.
I volunteered to repair it and tune it up, but ended up doing rather more than she expected me to do. First I made it into a 700c machine with mustache bars (nice and fast, and the mustache bars were really good for fitting me into the cockpit) but there was basically no clearance under the fork and what I’ll charitably call the brake bridge for fenders, and as soon as it started raining the bicycle was stored away in the back room where it stayed for the next year.
Last week I pulled it down and tried to figure out a way to get fenders under it. No way to do it with 700c, but I did have a spare pair of 650b wheels lying around, and enough parts to make them work. So off with the 700c wheels, on with the 650b wheels (after respacing the rear triangle to ~130mm from the 120mm it used to be) and enough other parts to fit it closer to her than to me:
Still needs fenders, but now there’s room for them by Tysasi, on Flickr
I finished setting up the brakes today (Dia-Compe centerpull in front, Shimano single-pivot in back,) pulled off the Hetre on the front wheel in favor of a a matched set of Hutchinson Confrérie des 650s, pipe-clamped a water bottle to the down tube, and put a pair of V-O Postino bars (with Ergon grips) onto the thing.
No fenders yet, but the fork doesn’t have mountpoints for them, so I’m going to attach them to the rack struts so that the front fender is only attached to the rack, and I’ve not yet finished brazing the front rack together, so that’s going to take a while.
And even though Julie might feel virtuous for riding a $5 bicycle, the horrible truth is that that $5 has been left far in the dust. It will be worse if I decide to get another Hetre and put her bicycle into compliance with the Oregon statutes regarding 650b road bikes. And, oh yes, there’s a 2013 populaire with this bicycle’s name on it, even if riding a faster-backwards geometry for 60+ miles ends up killing me.
Making a thing of horrible horrible beauty. Think of it as Los Angeles in bicycle form.
Replaced the stem, bars, levers & shifters, got my Shimergo on. Chorus 11 to Shimano 9 (8 mechs), works perfectly, stoked.
what’s this rack?
It’s the Haulin Colin rack that BBill designed.
I started building a parts bin monster cross bike out of a mongoose alta pro frame that’s been kicking around my back porch for like 3 years. Should be fun for a few minutes then ill off load it on some chump. Pic to come
It’s the Haulin Colin rack that BBill designed.[/quote]
Lol i don’t know why it looks different to me every time i see it.
Rode it. Moved saddle forward. Dropped the bars 10mm. trued/further tensioned wheels.