Recent content by Nothin-fancy

It most definitely would be interesting to try. I had an Reynolds 853 frame that someone did the same thing too. Had I thought about it I would have tried it out instead of recycling the frame because of how thin the tubing is. I wouldn't try it with something with thickish walls but anything...

Because it's definitely the tires/gear/bike that makes someone fast... 🤨

Road biking has always been big where I grew up and the west coast Campy distribution hub was a 30 minute ride away. So it's what everyone had, even on their mountain bikes when campy had Euclid etc. As far as RH, seems like a fan boy parsing words and getting stuck on semantics. The real...

the Big beautiful BIKE parts bill...

Holy cow. I had never checked out Rene Herse stuff as it always seemed like it was overpriced copies of stuff that had it's copyright expire. Went to the website and my suspicions were definitely confirmed... And the original stuff was uggo and expensive... $900 for a 9-11s friction...

I bet Campagnolo is going to be building a new factory in Florida.

That thing is sweet! How's the Sensah doing? I've been interested in it since Shimano announced it's Cues system and effectively made anything not shifting 11 speed cog spacing obsolete. I've also been interested in the Box branded shifter's for mountain biking too. They both seem nice. I'm...

I know that this is an old thread. Have you tried a newer Shimano deore freehub? You didn't say what hub you are trying to fit this on and I have fit the modern 10s deore freehub on a deore dx, lx, and parallax lx hubs with no problem. The part's cheap to. I think it's only $20 new and the...

Lately the supposed checks and balances seem to be wearing clown shoes. maybe I'm dumb, but I thought when something was found illegal on appeal it was struck down until/if it made it to the supreme court??? I will say I don't have a dog in this fight. I don't eBay, temu, Walmart or anything...

I guess some of us are more along the lines or lack there of a Jackson Pollock type of artist... Although my bikes are mostly immaculate and rode harder than most. But you might be on to something about "that" bike shop. My favorites were always those old ones crammed and bursting with old...

I wish I could. I don't do eBay anymore because of bad selling and buying experiences. And I live in a place that doesn't really do vintage bikes. If it's not a $5000plus used gee whiz golly it goes to 13 speeds carbon fiber bike to go with the 55 year old beer belly or completely unridden hung...

I was just perusing the Shed Thread and it got me thinking about what I/other's keep when it comes to cycling. In the rest of my life I'm very orderly and alphabetical. My records are all alphabetical and my books are by type and alphabetized. If I don't use something other than tool's, books or...

I don't even know what to write. I guess, It's just self inflicted so I can't feel to bad. It's almost like the scorpion and the turtle when it comes to certain things. It's just what the scorpion does...

It is interesting how most Italian builders seemed to just grab whatever was within reach when building frames to make production quota's. I've seen some interesting head scratcher's before. About the only builder's that were consistent were the bigger contract builder's like Billato. And it's...

I would just use a shim and cover it. On a side note, I wonder if you could use a brass instrument repair kit for this. It's for a trumpet or trombone that's been dented and it's basically a steel ball that you put in the tube and a really strong magnet on the outside of the tubing and you...