It will be tough the first time you see it in public with the new owner. Be strong.
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First foray into the spray.bike thing, colour Memphis and the Keirin sunlight purple on top. You should carry this colour @igor!
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Sweet!!
I hacked an XTR long cage onto this dura-ace derailleur only to find it still wouldn’t shift up to the 36.
So I swapped in this one instead.
Slowly parts binning the Crust together with the random free minutes I’m finding on rainy days.
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Damn that XTRxDA collabo is sweet! Why didn’t it work? The biggest difference between a derailleur that can shift into a big cassette is usually the upper knuckle placement, rather than just derailleur cage length. The cage length is typically most useful for taking up chain wrap for doubles and triples.
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you said it yourself
Also the slant of a parallelogram. Swapping the cage doesn’t change the path of the upper pulley. That looks like a 7800, Shimano rated it for a 27T cog, 36T is a huge difference. It probably just rammed itself into the cassette around the 8th cog.
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The pulley looked a bit more offset so I was hoping that plus a longer b screw would get me far enough. It cleared all the way to the 10th, but I couldn’t get it to stop ramming. Didn’t bother with the tail hook lengthener in the first pic as it dropped too far on the 11t producing terrible chain wrap. No real need to hack when I had a fine MTB RD, just wanted to experiment.
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oh i am fully in favor of experimenting with frankendanglers, and that one was pretty rad.
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That’s a shame, it looks really nice.
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Tried to pry the cartridge bearing out of a headset, only to remove the inner race - luckily all the BBs stayed in place and I re-assembled without ruining my day.
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Ive got a crap-load of octa-link in my parts bin too, some of it DA as well. It is pretty. I dont have that PITA extractor tool part tho so it never gets applied to anything, and all of the bikes I could apply it to have stupid BB’ s French, or slogged, and held together with a screw-into-itself BB.
Curious as to your thoughts, especially compared to other tires. I have them in 29x2.6 (35mm inner width rim) on my new Trek.
Don’t have much to compare to except Spec Purgatory 29x2.4 that I rode ages ago.
My current setup is 29 x 2.8 Coronado (rear)/29 x 3.0 Ranger (front). Works well on the Jones, but the front can be prone to washing out if you’re not careful. Tried the Bonty XR2 in front, and it felt a lot like the Ranger. I’m hoping the XR4 will offer better, more predictable cornering.
Vittoria has some plus-size tires that look interesting:
https://www.vittoria.com/us/tires/off-road-tires/off-road-tires-fat-and-plus.html
Now that commuting is essentially done for the time being, I put horizons on the nfe to go and ride some dirt maybe. First time with the chonky bois, keen to see if it’s good. I think these are og horizons too, been sitting in a box for a few years.
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over the last couple months:
ordered enormous rims (25w x 55d), in 32 spokestyle from Light Bicycle
so that I can re-use my R45 hubs that got refurbished by CK a year and a half ago
Rims took a while to get to me from China
(this project is both: me throwing money into a rimbrake deadend road bike AND using carbon rims with rim brakes, two things I wasn’t planning on ever doing)
They built up really smoothly, and feel a lot better than the DTr460 x 5700 hubs (with unbutted spokes!) that I’d been using as a placeholder.
I’m not markedly faster with these wheels, which is not a surprise, but they do feel more solid and planted, and I think do good things for tire shape.
However
with the new carbon friendly brake pads, the calipers are pretty overwhelmed, like definitely not at an angle of engagement Shimano imagined.
They still work, though, and make a cool shrieking/whistling sound when I hit the brakes.
My thinking here was that: all rims are mortal, and most of my road routes are pretty tame, only a few spots where I need to brake. If I were riding Diablo reguarly like I used to, I’d absolutely not use these rims. For now, though, I get to build a stupid but fun wheelset that should be good for road rides in gentle rolling terrain, or on the deadender tt bike I’m probably going to talk myself into building in a few years.
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Took 'sup’s flatbar 659b conversion and made it into even more of a mellow speed momcruiser.
Stem swap and new extra-riser bars.
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