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Frame swap

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the7hills

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so all I have to do is take all the bits of the white frame, and move them across to the ...errr... white frame.

chilly sunday ride

Written by . Posted on January 30, 2011. Filed under external feed. Tagged . Comments Off.

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Me and the eldest snook off to Wyming Brook drive. Bit chilly round the edges

chilly sunday ride

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Me and the eldest snook off to Wyming Brook drive. Bit chilly round the edges





Winter Work in Progress

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An update on my winter Pompino. Last winter it was a single speed. Now modified with an Alfine 8 speed hub. Now I could have just bought a new frame from on-one but not after the Browne review!I used Sheldon's method with a large block of wood to cold set the frame to 135mm.The gear change is a bit Heath Robinson for now, using an extension bar and a trigger shifter.Im not shortening that cable till i decide on a final solution either one of theseshttp://jtekengineering.com/jtek_bar-end_shifter.htmOr this hideously expensive Shimano leverhttp://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/BLVEVRS8/versa-vrs-8-brake-levers-pair-for-alfine-8sp-Rest of the bike as last year, Race Face chainring, candy bros pedals, Schmidt hub dynamo with disk, Nokian studded snow tyresStill to come, front lo rider carrier, Solidlights dynamo front led, rear wheel nuts to tow the Yak Bob. One day it may get a disk on the rear.Hows it ride? The Alfine is smooth and silent.

Winter Work in Progress

Written by . Posted on October 22, 2010. Filed under external feed. Tagged . Comments Off.

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An update on my winter Pompino. Last winter it was a single speed. Now modified with an Alfine 8 speed hub. Now I could have just bought a new frame from on-one but not after the Browne review!

I used Sheldon's method with a large block of wood to cold set the frame to 135mm.

The gear change is a bit Heath Robinson for now, using an extension bar and a trigger shifter.

Im not shortening that cable till i decide on a final solution either one of theses

http://jtekengineering.com/jtek_bar-end_shifter.htm


Or this hideously expensive Shimano lever

http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/BLVEVRS8/versa-vrs-8-brake-levers-pair-for-alfine-8sp-

Rest of the bike as last year, Race Face chainring, candy bros pedals, Schmidt hub dynamo with disk, Nokian studded snow tyres
























Still to come, front lo rider carrier, Solidlights dynamo front led, rear wheel nuts to tow the Yak Bob. One day it may get a disk on the rear.

Hows it ride? The Alfine is smooth and silent.

Ride through the East Midlands

Written by . Posted on July 23, 2010. Filed under external feed. Tagged . Comments Off.

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Had a ride down to my mum and dads in Kettering , plus a stop over in Nottingham on the way. Ill post details soon but here are a few pics for now.

Ride through the East Midlands

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Had a ride down to my mum and dads in Kettering , plus a stop over in Nottingham on the way. Ill post details soon but here are a few pics for now.











Stud-U-Like?

Written by . Posted on January 14, 2010. Filed under external feed. Tagged . Comments Off.

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Well on the day the big thaw finally came along, and the day after Sheffield's worst ever ice rink roads and paths, I finally get my hands on some of these beauties. Ive been trying to source some for two years, now I have 4 of them .So thanks to T & S bike shop in Germany for sending themhttp://www.tunds.com/(and big thanks to Andreas Rühmkorf for helping with the money transfer, I owe you a beer mate.....oh and 80quid) ,All I have to do is wait for the next big freeze to try them out. Il put one on a spare front wheel and wait and see.If it never snows again in Sheffield you can blame me.

Stud-U-Like?

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Well on the day the big thaw finally came along, and the day after Sheffield's worst ever ice rink roads and paths, I finally get my hands on some of these beauties. Ive been trying to source some for two years, now I have 4 of them .




So thanks to T & S bike shop in Germany for sending them

http://www.tunds.com/


(and big thanks to Andreas Rühmkorf for helping with the money transfer, I owe you a beer mate.....oh and 80quid) ,

All I have to do is wait for the next big freeze to try them out. Il put one on a spare front wheel and wait and see.

If it never snows again in Sheffield you can blame me.