fatbikephil wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 10:25 pm
Neither have I, and it's got slidey drop outs for SS - details please Rich
Rothair Cycles - http://rothaircycles.com/ is run by Matthew Finlayson who honed his skills building bikes and painting them at Shand.
This Columbus steel frame breaks in half for transport via the S+S coupling you can see and a break in the seat tube. The dropouts are made by Paragon machine works and allow single speed / hub gear options in the future.
Richpips wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 5:17 pm
Finished building up my Rothair today.
That looks like a new 'best bike' Rich. Even though I don't like my bikes splitting, congrats still
I only have one question, was the frame more £ or them beautiful wheels and did you really pay £80 each for those tyres. Enjoy ,and hopefully we learn soon on what expedition it's going on
Not to the bike, but my bike trousers. Second or 3rd set of recycled (to me, off ebay) Singletracks. Sadly the belt would always slip and the other day was a little annoying. Just another smidgen to add to the stress of trying to ride outdoors cold (in the).
So out comes the McNett and off comes the plastic barrier keeping it wet in there. Wiped some over the belt, both sides. Hoping that once it's dried it'll increase the friction of this little here belt, and all will be good.
redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:29 am
Not to the bike, but my bike trousers. Second or 3rd set of recycled (to me, off ebay) Singletracks. Sadly the belt would always slip and the other day was a little annoying. Just another smidgen to add to the stress of trying to ride outdoors cold (in the).
So out comes the McNett and off comes the plastic barrier keeping it wet in there. Wiped some over the belt, both sides. Hoping that once it's dried it'll increase the friction of this little here belt, and all will be good.
Shaf I had a plastic buckle which would not stop loosening, I replaced it with a metal g-hook (I luckily didn't need to sew anything on the webbing) and my issues were solved.
Thanks Dean. 56 miles in on the West Yorkshire Cycle Route for the annual Freedom for Dr Aafia Siddiqui Ride. Total miles thus far including joining the route from home, us 74.7.
Not thought about the buckle once, so it seemed the Mcnett caused enough extra friction (with some knife strokes over the belt and nips to buckle
Thanks for that though Dean, I've more Singkwtracks to fix.
Put yet another hole in a tyre. 2024 is the year of the puncture for me.....
Anyway, Krampus's turn to have a catastrophic puncture thanks to a large nail sticking out of a flight of old wooden steps. I'd tried to blast up the side of them hence catching the nail and the tyre suddenly instantly deflating. No sealant spray tho....
No way was i going to plug the resulting half inch slash so I set to with a bent needle and tub thread. It was pretty messy TBH and despite slathering superglue all over it, there was still too much of a hole to seal. So I attempted to superglue a bit of innertube over the slash but everything was just to wet and muddy. If there had been more than a trace of sealant in the tyre it might have sealed but I was left with a slow leak.
Got home the 5 miles with only one pump up needed so not a bad bodge all in all.
In future I'll only use a single bit of thread not a double as it kept knotting up plus if I'd taken more time cleaning things up it would have sealed better.
I remember the only time my tyre wouldn't seal. Found a nice little ledge of step (think it might have been someone's doorstep, but I was probably too bothered about the tyre/tube). Ripped everything out and fit a tube. Sealant all over the place and a proper messy job.
Yet to do some seaming trailside and hopefully will never have the pleasure. On one of the Trailquests with Dark&White (racing against the 2 siblings to see who gets the most OS grid points and back in time) I had a puncture that just wouldn't seal. Twas alot of pumping/stopping I did that (flipping) day
Hope the glue patches last (both sides). What's the plan, to order a tyre or just ride em until they pop!?
Once slashed a + tyre and sewed and glued trailside. Held air till that part was at the bottom then it leaked . Decided if i ever get a big slash* i am going straigh to tube to save an hours trailside faffage. YMMV
* it was about 2 inches , so a tad optomistic of me
Well it was yesterday but I built a new geared rear wheel for my Jones, an old silver Halo Spin Dr hub that I really liked which was my road / gravel bike hub some years ago until the rim split, and a Blunt 35 bought on here. Went together well.
A significant and slightly sad day for me. My Jones has been on singlespeed rear wheels only since 2012 but for the time being single-speeding is not happening so it's time to go 1x. Gears will increase effort and distance steadily and I'll aim to be back on it as a SS by late summer.
For bikepacking trips in the past I geared it with 6 of the sprockets from an XT 10s cassette (onto the narrow cassette body of the Hope Trials hub) but as well as being sensible about getting back to fitness I want to do more off-road bikepacking trips again and would appreciate the wider range. Ever stingy when it comes to consumables on the bike it's going 1x10. 10s cassettes are cheap as chips and a Deore 11s RD was on sale a while back at £20 or so, so it's all good for winter abuse. 11-46 or 11-48 range is luxury to me so that'll do for now.
Also cut down and re-shaped the levers/paddles of an old XT trigger shifter to work with H-bars, hopefully that works as intended to keep it out of the way of the grip positions I like.
One of the highlights of time off at christmas is a bit of time pottering around sorting a bike for something new. Ideally (but not always) before all the christmas stuff is done!
redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Sat Dec 21, 2024 7:00 pm
Hope the glue patches last (both sides). What's the plan, to order a tyre or just ride em until they pop!?
Plus tyres are like Hens teeth so it will be used until it wears out, or I die of old age!
Shouldn't be an issue I think. I wondered about swapping it to the back so it will wear out quicker but I couldn't be bothered....
In other Jones news, today (after I drive down to Mum and Dad's) I will be fitting the Crux duros
