I crimped the chainstay to suit a 200mm rear rotor.

[GoldenEraMTB]

None so good as "Chump" though.
Oldies are definately goodies!

I thought "chump" was ours, so I didn't include it...I grew up saying that here in NYC

 

[toaster999]

Clot

Classic

 

[suburbanreuben]

None so good as "Chump" though.
Oldies are definately goodies!

I thought "chump" was ours, so I didn't include it...I grew up saying that here in NYC

I think Laurel & Hardy's classic, "A Chump at Oxford" spread it's use on both sides of the pond. I can't remember hearing it used in the film though...

 

[lewis1641]

never mind the chainstay, how ugly is that downtube?

 

[suburbanreuben]

never mind the chainstay, how ugly is that downtube?

And this is what happens to them.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/litespeed-titaniu ... 43a0811c37

 

[Harryburgundy]

never mind the chainstay, how ugly is that downtube?

And this is what happens to them.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/litespeed-titaniu ... 43a0811c37

Nah...I'd say very unusual to see a cracked Litespeed (that one was modern rubbish )
The one featured in this thread is full mainframe 6Al/4V Ti...strong as an ox and super duper light.

 

[mikesnowdon]

What a c.o.c.k.e.n.d!!!!!

 

[toaster999]

None so good as "Chump" though.
Oldies are definately goodies!

I thought "chump" was ours, so I didn't include it...I grew up saying that here in NYC

I think Laurel & Hardy's classic, "A Chump at Oxford" spread it's use on both sides of the pond. I can't remember hearing it used in the film though...

Sorry my American friends, but "Chump" first appeared in English in the early 1700s meaning "lump of wood" (possibly from a melding of "chunk" and "lump"), and by the late 1880s had acquired its modern derogatory meaning of "blockhead" or "fool." The term "chump change" seems to have first appeared in the African-American community in the late 1960s with the meaning of "small change, a negligible amount of money." The sense of the term is "an amount of money only a chump would value; a trivial amount," as opposed to larger amounts of "real money."

Ahhh google......

 

[taffy]

what about Berk
Plonker
Tool
or Spanner?

i'd love to see him fit bigger rims on a Bentley "I flared the arches a bit with a ball peen hammer..."

 

[suburbanreuben]

Berk = Berkshire Hunt