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Old 08-13-22, 06:32 PM
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big block refresh


Rock 'n' Roll Gold Chain Lube



SimWorks by NITTO Rhonda stem


SimWorks by NITTO With Me CrMo spacers


Phil Wood Headset


Knog Oi Luxe


Rindow Tarugata Vinyl Grips


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Old 08-17-22, 08:02 PM
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My All City Big Block frameset arrived today. The paint job is gorgeous and looks much better in person than in any photos. Removed the stupid safety stickers including California Proposition 65. Installed the headset, and am waiting for the rest of the parts. The stem is just a stand-in to hold the fork in the frame until the actual bar and stem arrive, and I determine how much of the steerer tube I need to cut. I don't expect to use all those spacers.

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Originally Posted by TejanoTrackie
My All City Big Block frameset arrived today. The paint job is gorgeous and looks much better in person than in any photos. Removed the stupid safety stickers including California Proposition 65. Installed the headset, and am waiting for the rest of the parts. The stem is just a stand-in to hold the fork in the frame until the actual bar and stem arrive, and I determine how much of the steerer tube I need to cut. I don't expect to use all those spacers.

Uh oh someone is getting cancer...LOL

I love the color scheme on that.
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Old 08-20-22, 12:39 PM
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New bar tape day. I have an odd pet peeve of not wanting to wear clothing that doesn't match my bike. I have many jerseys of all different colors and most don't get worn. I figured with this bar tape all my jerseys would match

It does look pretty cool in person. Someday I'll buy a proper camera, my cheap phone sucks.

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Vincita folding front rack. Soma stopped producing the Port Folder and Port Folder II. Found a Sunlite that looks virtually identical to the Vincita, but looking at pics the welds looked better on the Vincita.

The roundstays (10mm by 257mm) are plenty long to reach the rack bosses. Apparently, an earlier version had really short roundstays so along with some interesting hardware it can attach to the brake bosses. If it had not had long roundstays, I would have found a set to connect to the rack bosses.

I used a 10mm x M6 nylon spacer to offset the bracket properly from the headtube. It's nylon being squished by aluminum from either side. Not sure if I'll have to replace it with an aluminum spacer eventually.








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Old 11-18-22, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Lazyass
New bar tape day. I have an odd pet peeve of not wanting to wear clothing that doesn't match my bike. I have many jerseys of all different colors and most don't get worn. I figured with this bar tape all my jerseys would match

It does look pretty cool in person. Someday I'll buy a proper camera, my cheap phone sucks.
That bar tape is amazing!
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New Brooks saddle, my first. I guess I'll find out if it lives up to the hype.

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Old 11-22-22, 06:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Chad1376
New Brooks saddle, my first. I guess I'll find out if it lives up to the hype.

Cool - is that one of those 2.8/3.0 C'dales? And no rear brake means fixed? Are you doing anything about your chain tension besides hope or magic?
Nyss saddle by the way
Enjoy it - ride safe...

Edit: Annnd by looking closer & squinting at my potato's screen I was able to ascertain that is a fixed cog so answered that question. But I can't tell about the hub so...

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Old 11-22-22, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by IAmSam
Cool - is that one of those 2.8/3.0 C'dales? And no rear brake means fixed? Are you doing anything about your chain tension besides hope or magic?

Nyss saddle by the way

Enjoy it - ride safe...


Edit: Annnd by looking closer & squinting at my potato's screen I was able to ascertain that is a fixed cog so answered that question. But I can't tell about the hub so...

You're going to make me confess to evil and wrongdoing.

- It's either a 2.8 or 3.0. I never bothered to look. I bought it off of ebay about 15 years ago for $100
- When I first got it, I used a die grinder and opened up the dropouts a tiny little bit, so the axle has some play.
- Combination of chainring/cog + half link gets it close
- The play in the dropout lets me set the chain tension just right, but it's fiddly until I get the nuts tight
- Then I crank down on the nuts just short of yield (LOL)
- It's safe because I don't have the quads of an olympic track cyclist




I've been eyballing an eno hub for years, but if I do, I'll want better rims, spokes, bike etc..etc..
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Old 05-01-23, 06:23 PM
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Annual new chain and cog for my track commuter. It only takes one chain drop for me to trash the old worn out stuff!
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Old 07-23-23, 11:06 PM
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Here are a few things I recently picked up

I picked up these last week Pro Bike Tool mini pump with a inline gauge, Schwalbe Marathon Mondial Evolution 700x 40, Park Tools CM-5.3 - Cyclone Chain Scrubber and a Vibrelli Bike Multi Tool V19.
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