Nocim....my Edwardian hotrod speed machine!

[TheDocmeister]

Donhou Top 10 // No.2 - Experiments in Speed bike

In at No.2 and the last to post from the top 10... The crowd favourite! Watch ‘Experiments in Speed’. There’s nothing else I need to say. It takes 2nd spot. But lets face it, this bike and the whole EIP project has a very special place all on its own.Mk2 is down on paper, has been for years...

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[TheDocmeister]

Don’t quite know where that post came from at 10 to 8 on a Sunday morning!
However, I am extremely impressed with this build, what a great read!

 

[Nabeaquam]

Grunt gorilla gearing.

 

[Nabeaquam]

More braking news!

So i had a steel rear brake cable hanger I made in the same fashion as the cable guide......get it... done ....get it on ....let's go ride style.....well it was a heavy lump at 36 grams

Can't have that!

Too fat!

Let's start with a big lump.....some might recognise this poor lonesome orphan crank from my other build.....the tensioner that never was....!!??
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Hack ...smash ...and a beer....

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Something's happening
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Faces would look strange without a nose right?

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And that dainty little thing weighs in bang on at.... 12 grams .
I was hoping what I had in mind would be on the light side of 20g ..... So quite stoked with that effort

Which means from the seat cluster I've saved a whopping 61g that's pretty damn good going

Wow, that’s a lot of work. I know. In the 1980s I used to go dumpster diving behind all the bike shops for tossed out alloy crank arms. I used to cut and file the big ends down to make handle caps for my homemade knives. Nowhere as much work as your efforts but at least I have an appreciation for what you did.