Wide-posts and V-brakes?
04-14-21, 11:51 AM
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String test: NDS string is 7mm (!!) further from the seatpost than DS.
So likely the reason I found the frame(+bits) in the trash is it had gotten bent. I assume it's bent stays, not simply rotated dropouts? And do I want to bend the DS or NDS rear triangle toward or away from center? Maybe NDS a little away from center and DS towards center? The frame is steel, so I was thinking of just levering a 2x4 in there and bending some.
Or maybe leave it alone, since we have achieved reasonable pad-rim contact and v-brake geometry.
So likely the reason I found the frame(+bits) in the trash is it had gotten bent. I assume it's bent stays, not simply rotated dropouts? And do I want to bend the DS or NDS rear triangle toward or away from center? Maybe NDS a little away from center and DS towards center? The frame is steel, so I was thinking of just levering a 2x4 in there and bending some.
Or maybe leave it alone, since we have achieved reasonable pad-rim contact and v-brake geometry.
04-15-21, 04:16 AM
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String test: NDS string is 7mm (!!) further from the seatpost than DS.
So likely the reason I found the frame(+bits) in the trash is it had gotten bent. I assume it's bent stays, not simply rotated dropouts? And do I want to bend the DS or NDS rear triangle toward or away from center? Maybe NDS a little away from center and DS towards center? The frame is steel, so I was thinking of just levering a 2x4 in there and bending some.
Or maybe leave it alone, since we have achieved reasonable pad-rim contact and v-brake geometry.
So likely the reason I found the frame(+bits) in the trash is it had gotten bent. I assume it's bent stays, not simply rotated dropouts? And do I want to bend the DS or NDS rear triangle toward or away from center? Maybe NDS a little away from center and DS towards center? The frame is steel, so I was thinking of just levering a 2x4 in there and bending some.
Or maybe leave it alone, since we have achieved reasonable pad-rim contact and v-brake geometry.
The one that I showed above rides well, and is just fun. Another, a bike-shaped-object that night have been an anvil in a former life, steers like a pregnant pig that only wants to lie down and which is currently doing its best work locked to the front of our block as a piece of decoration.
04-15-21, 07:56 AM
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Never ridden it, it's being built up after sitting in the backyard for few years after being saved from the dumpster
04-15-21, 07:47 PM
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Might be best to just cut your losses. Let this one go. There will be others.
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Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
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Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
04-15-21, 10:14 PM
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