The Spanish Inquisition Thread -- Confess!
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mismatched anodized wheels are totally valid for bikes with fade/"split" paint jobs, because I have awful taste
oh yeah, and matching anodized wheels are good for bikes with plain white/silver/black paint, just to make it pop
oh yeah, and matching anodized wheels are good for bikes with plain white/silver/black paint, just to make it pop
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Egad. This is the most painful thread in living memory.
Where are the damn multi-quotes?
Andy, I used to be a moderator here. I was a peacekeeper above all else, but dang!... The Spanish Prime Minister denounces you and St Alberto is shaking his head while completing his dinner of beef stew. You could have avoided all this by posting photos of an Orbea. Completely lost my train of thought due to rampant wrongness. Shame be upon so many houses.
Where are the damn multi-quotes?
Andy, I used to be a moderator here. I was a peacekeeper above all else, but dang!... The Spanish Prime Minister denounces you and St Alberto is shaking his head while completing his dinner of beef stew. You could have avoided all this by posting photos of an Orbea. Completely lost my train of thought due to rampant wrongness. Shame be upon so many houses.
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Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
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I've got one bike with a compact double. It's more like the "be frustrated" bike for me. Technically, both my cyclocross bikes have compact doubles too, but 46-34 is a much more user friendly combination. I really have a grudge against 50-34. It's like I'm always in the wrong gear.
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I've done that, though not on every bike, and I can't bring myself to use mismatched hubs. The reason is that you can get a brand new, high quality Shimano rear hub for under $35. It makes the indexing more complicated with Campagnolo components, but there are several different ways to make it work.
Using the Gios as a beast of burden seemed so unremarkable to me at that point in my life, I didn't even think to remove the hitch for the photo. History. If needs drive me to actions like those, I will at least have my battered but rescued Aegis or maybe even a touring bike by then, to use.
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I've got one bike with a compact double. It's more like the "be frustrated" bike for me. Technically, both my cyclocross bikes have compact doubles too, but 46-34 is a much more user friendly combination. I really have a grudge against 50-34. It's like I'm always in the wrong gear.
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Do you anchor it to boards gripping the headtube and downtube, to ensure centering?
Blasphemy! Bless me father, for I am sorely tempted.
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That is the most over-engineered frame spreader I have ever seen. Most of the time I just use a length of 2x4, but once I used a cut section of banister, complete with a wood screw at the end (for zombies). If I'm committing real blasphemy and spreading a Vitus 979, I do it completely by hand. Quality tubing though sometimes requires a scissor jack!
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Oooh! Is that a combo cold-setter for rear triangle spacike and dropout bender to re-parallel the dropouts?
I've been dreaming of one.
Do you anchor it to boards gripping the headtube and downtube, to ensure centering?
Blasphemy! Bless me father, for I am sorely tempted.
I've been dreaming of one.
Do you anchor it to boards gripping the headtube and downtube, to ensure centering?
Blasphemy! Bless me father, for I am sorely tempted.
Let me say there are many ways to skin a cat, this is only how I do it. I use the spreader along with a Park FFS-2 frame/fork straightening tool and a Park ***-2 frame alignment gage as I have never had a frame spread symmetrically, usually out 1 to 3mm's out. Fine tuning with these tools is a piece of cake, this way I don't have to put a lot of stress on the front triangle. after any spread dropout and derailleur alignment is a must. Verify the frame is straight before you start, take your time and check your progress often, I started out spreading my own frames and now I'm spreading frames for friends, I have done over 10 in the last 4 years.
I also thread in steel bottom bracket cups and install a seatpost before I start to spread as this takes some of the flexibility out of that structure and reduces the loads the other tubes are seeing.
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Whoa. Torrington bearings!!
That is the most over-engineered frame spreader I have ever seen. Most of the time I just use a length of 2x4, but once I used a cut section of banister, complete with a wood screw at the end (for zombies). If I'm committing real blasphemy and spreading a Vitus 979, I do it completely by hand. Quality tubing though sometimes requires a scissor jack!
That is the most over-engineered frame spreader I have ever seen. Most of the time I just use a length of 2x4, but once I used a cut section of banister, complete with a wood screw at the end (for zombies). If I'm committing real blasphemy and spreading a Vitus 979, I do it completely by hand. Quality tubing though sometimes requires a scissor jack!
Version 4 will get big steel wing nuts and a handle for the center nut, so no wrenches required!!! Lets call that thing a prototype.
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Brooks Pro on my
... or this:
... or this?
NOLO CONTENDERE....
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Older tools - I've had some of these since the 1970's...
One tool that's missing from your collection - the Campagnolo # 1 Frame Alignment Tool....
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You people need to get a bigger hammer.
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Can't get much worse than that !!
I'm not confessing to nuthin, I did it I tell ya, on purpose cuz I wanted to.
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Plain chrome steel seatpost with oldschool Brooks clamp, still hasn't slipped a bit.
Carbon SR crank and chrome steel Record pedals.
Athena Skeleton calipers with chrome steel SR pad holders.
Campy CX wheels with early chrome steel skewers.
Chrome VO Grand Cru chrome quill stem and Record HS.
2020 Strawberry road with ok clearance for 32's by Dave Levy at TiCycles with Andy's parts, piece's and blessing.
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Many moons ago, my girlfriend wanted to try the "citizen" class bike race. I took her clunker Ross, and managed to fit tubulars on it, and got the brake pads to reach. Maybe it only weighed 30 lbs then.
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I am disappointed. Where's the Spanish Inquisition? Around 8 years ago I made 2 Spanish Inquisition costumes to wear on the tandem at a Cincinnati Halloween ride. Bruce refused to wear the hat.
Franklin Frames is prepping my Terry Solstice hybrid to turn it into a road bike with 105 components. Not only is this excessively expensive for a very short bike, but it should disturb hybrid and classic bicycle purists. And my husband and I turned 4 tiny Hotrocks into zoo bombers with V brakes. (Got to take one to the LBS today and get a front brake to match the back on the 24" Hotrock.)
Franklin Frames is prepping my Terry Solstice hybrid to turn it into a road bike with 105 components. Not only is this excessively expensive for a very short bike, but it should disturb hybrid and classic bicycle purists. And my husband and I turned 4 tiny Hotrocks into zoo bombers with V brakes. (Got to take one to the LBS today and get a front brake to match the back on the 24" Hotrock.)
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I hear you. Lots of heretics, not enough inquisitors.
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