separated one pile of bike junk from another pile of bike junk. probably should have thrown both piles out
I always consider forks as being the more valuable part of a frame + fork set after I heard a couple frame builders say that most of the time the frame is the easy part to glue while forks (especially low trail forks with all the accoutrements) can be a pain in the ass to build.
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Re-laced a busted rim to new stans flow. Same erd, so double bonus, but I was worried that things might get tight moving between two 30mm internal rims. Need to get it tensioned up some time. And maybe worry about front just to make it matchy match (and not have the crumble-worthy wtb on the bike at all).
I giggled.
the Kogswell motto was āThe Fork is The Frameā
too bad the āKonversion forkā thing didnāt work out that time around
The fork and the frame each carry the same amount of wheels.
I will miss my 1ā ultra light carbon fork. It went so well with my single os ultralight steel.
Had a hellish time removing supās krunked giant dropper post and installing new one up drooper. Mostly there was hell resistance in moving the housing. I think on initial install, I had looped housing around either rear brake or dangler (all the spec carbon tubes output at same spot). Eventually got a softer brake housing to work. I think we upgraded her almost 40mm on this dropper post! Didnāt even have to fux with the little adjuster because slamming the post worked.
If you want more drooper and your frame manufacturer doesnāt allow it (looking at you giant/liv and some spec), check out this post.
This post looks great. The shim is so simpleāIām surprised it took someone this long to do it.
Doing horrible things to a Sirrus that Toast found and gave to me last year. My youngest child used to be riding on Toastās old Shiromoto, but heās now much too large to fit it, so Iāll update him to something larger.
(Flat Magnets are about as large as will fit under this frame, because itās got a stupidly narrow fork. But between them and my small pile of Confreries & Schwalbe Ones Iāve got enough tires to last this machine for a while.)
(edit: took a nicer outdoor picture of the now-ridable machine.)
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your house appears to have vomited its contents all over the floor
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We have cats, and they decided that this was a good day to play in those nice wire boxes that inconveniently contained shoes.
ah, that explains it
Ah yes lizard skinz
Remembered I had a set of Ergons in the parts bin, put them on the super townie. Aww, yes!
I had to swap out the brake levers on the sweet fixie (the hoods were getting gummy, and this was an excuse to replace the br600s with the more funny looking but better feeling Tektro rl340s) and while I was at it I swapped out the bb5s (Iām gonna be building some disco forks and need some scratch brakes for fitting purposes) with a pair of Spyres.
The post mount for the rear brake is a little high for a Spyre (it sits higher on the posts than a bb5 does?) so when I get around to finally building a disco frame from scratch Iām going to have to either redo my post mount jig or switch to flat mount brakes.
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Gosh dang it Orc, you have a way with bikes.
Is the difference due to the Avidās CPS washers being present or not?
No, I donāt think so. I tried to lower the rear Spyre by leaving the washers off, but it was still kind of high (and it turned out that the rear mount is slightly crooked, sigh, so I couldnāt even do that) and the way I kept the front Spyre low was to use the post-to-ISO adapter that was on the bb5.
At least since itās a both a fixie and a rear brake it doesnāt see nearly the use as the front brake does, so only getting 75% pad coverage is gonna be enough until I disassemble the rear of the bike and adjust the posts with hammer, pliers, and torch.
<3 Gary TURNER
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