I’m fairly sure there’s been a thread about this a year or so ago maybe. Have a search.

Edit. The thread is titled: How do you stick yours

darbeze wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:31 pm

Dartmoor will certainly provide plenty of BB200 like challenges!

The hills may not be as big as Wales, but there are many. Much bog, many tussocks, and lots of suffering available...

Si

That’s the idea!

PostieRich has had a group start on the Lakeland 200 as part of the JennRide weekend, not sure if there were any takers this year. Cool. Didn’t know he did that. I’ve not seen one advertised previously. I’m not expecting anything much in terms of what i’m doing, just advertising rides i’m Doing and...

That’s good but I think this is better:

Transcendental - No bikes, no bags, no route, just cross your legs and meditate your way round the course

Partly as a way to rejuvenate my riding over the coming year and partly for the hell of it i’d like to propose 2 group starts for next year: 1) Lakeland Loop 200 - probably some time in June. I’d like to have a go at an ITT anyway and it’d be good to be part of some group suffering. 2) Dartmoor 200(...

I’m kind of intrigued to try riding without pads but I always used to think that about flat pedals till I tried them and didn’t like it one bit... Loosing skin off my shins is one thing but off my under carriage is altogether another

I absolutely hate the idea of running out of food. Being a massive geek i’ve written down the food i’ve carried, bought, eaten and not eaten on trips and ITT’s over the years. I use that to base what i’ll Carry for any given ride now taking into account available resupply. I’ll usually carry enough ...

My wife and I have had an embarrassing amount of Prolite pads replaced by Cascade after they delaminated - something like 5 between us.

Brass Proloc’s so no weigh off there.
I’m thinking it will be just under 14kg/30lb with a full metal construction and a purposeful look. Think Landrover Defender.

Dartmoor 26/27th - Bit of backyard meandering. Might even be the first scouting mission for the top secret Dartmoor 200 ITT route but don’t tell anyone.
Black - Proloc for numpties

Continuing with the Krampus.
New front wheel built with FatLab 55mm rim, SAPIM Race, and Schmidt SON hub.
Swapped on the steel forks from my Fargo so I can raise the front end to get the Loops up level with my saddle.
Taking shape nicely for its first outing in a couple of weeks.

Cool.
Happy building. Take your time and enjoy it.
Take care to check your work as you go. Make sure each set of spokes are laced properly before going onto the next and only make small adjustments to the nips each time.
Good luck

“The compound is an excuse for building poor wheels”

Thanks Shaf
That’s the last time i’m nice to you brother

Think DT say it’s ok for some readjustment but it wouldn’t survive a rebuild. If you have Proloc nipples and reuse them they would just be like standard nipples. I tend not to reuse nipples when rebuilding wheels. I have no real basis for this but avoid it even if i’m reusing the spokes on a like fo...

Can't really see how airflow happens without a pad unless you have an amazing ability to hover 1mm above the saddle.? Surely then the saddle becomes the pad? I can see it when you are regularly off the saddle, but that's not how I ride. Ah, you might be assuming that there's something else beneath ...

Always round down, go with the 274s. ^^ This. With straight gauge spokes and the correct tools you can cut spokes to size and roll on new threads. It’s not really an option with DB due to the butting. I’m a fan of DT Proloc nipples that come with a light locking compound in them and help to keep ev...

I got some recently from an Italian online shop: ridewill.it They are a brand called Era Ora. First impressions are good. I felt a little more comfortable getting these forks(£100 ish) rather than some direct from China ones on eBay. I figure (rightly/wrongly??) that they may be more reliable bought...

Just fettling.
Had give up my BB200 place a while back.
I’m doing senior on call for the whole surgical division Saturday night and funnily enough couldn’t find anyone to swap with...

Remade the rear wheel of the Krampus. The Rohloff it revolves around had temporarily been built as a 27+ second set for the Fargo but i’ve decided to ditch that idea. Solid construction with some new flange support rings on the Rohloff, SAPIM Race spokes laced with DT Swiss Prolock brass nipples and...

The thing to remember is that the Fargo is designed around drops. So switching to flat bars is not straight forward. You’d need to think about stem length and bar height at the same time in order to end up with a good position. The top tube on the Fargo is shorter than standard and the head tube tal...

RIP wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:40 pm

'ff' - I like it. Plenty of imagery to conjure with there. Although this now seems to be playing fnarr catch-up with the BB300 Startlist thread .

You want the video?

Richard G wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 05, 2019 5:37 pm

lune ranger wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 05, 2019 5:27 pm

Filters filter poo from water.
If you get ill it’ll be from whatever sprays up from your tyres into your face or onto your bottle.

Yeah, I can pretty much remember the exact farm we went through that caused it. :(

I got cryptosporidium a couple of years back after a farmyard facial

Filters filter poo from water.
If you get ill it’ll be from whatever sprays up from your tyres into your face or onto your bottle.

In his book 'The bicycle wheel' Jobst Brandt, says that double butted spokes will be more resistant to fatigue failure when built into a wheel. This is because spokes break because of the cyclic stress they suffer as the wheel rotates. As the spoke rotates thru the bottom of the wheel it experiences...

The wheel building articles online by Shelton Brown are another great resource.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html

I usually refer back to this when building wheels