Jeff Lyon / Lyonsport trailer cycle, originally uploaded by joe_bunik.
This is extremely cool. If you poke around joe’s photo stream, you’ll see he’s doing something even more extremely cool with this bike…
**Update: Racked and fendered! Way way too cool.
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That’s a cool bike – I hadn’t heard of them before BikeTinker commenter RA mentioned he’s getting a Groovy Cycles LD stem for one. I really like the double top/stay tubes and “triangulation” tube.
To a fellow Quickbeam owner. I have more on Etsy, but they’re all cleaned and polished. I like the punk-rock versions with the left-over graphics, myself.
You know… to work. And… with the dog. Still, the silence of the chain and bottom bracket, and the smooth shiftability of the bike, the gripness of the bars, and the pure attractiveness of the cleaner more colorful bike make me really happy.
After getting the Quickbeam’s S3X squared away, I mounted giant-sized 47mm Schwalbe Marathons, but the front couldn’t quite clear the fender.
After taking the dog for a long ride with the mountain bike (note to self: spend more time maintaining bikes than tinkering with them this winter), I got into the final adjustments on the S3X.
Nevertheless, the new guide nut is a lot sturdier looking than the original, and the previous replacement nut. No high-shine chrome, no sexy inscribed ring, and especially no extra set of holes!
Before installation this time, I also put all the washers on the axle and tightened the nut all the way down and MEASURED THE GAP. It was 1mm wider than the thickness of my dropout. Oh.
The gap on the left side was small enough to get tight, but the drive-side nut wouldn’t be able to tighten down all the way. Bear in mind that this is a different axle and internal mechanism than the one I broke the first guide nut on, so I’d measure before installation on any bike. Measure the dropout width, measure the gap left after tightening all the nuts and washers up finger-tight. If the gap is bigger than the dropout, add a washer.
David did say that adding an extra washer would NOT mess up the shifting the same way using a long (AW-sized) guide nut would.
I added the washer, and the wheel seems tight, and the shifter shifts fine. I rode the bike a few miles, and I’ll adjust the cones tomorrow and ride it some more.
I just bought a used Little Joe saddlebag, a nice-looking canvas and leather number that matches my old Banana Bag pretty well.
My only issue is that I don’t know exactly how the bags are supposed to be fitted with straps! There are 8 d-rings on the flap and bottom of the bag, which seems like a lot, but at least 4 and maybe 6 are for the straps to cinch it closed. If anyone has instructions, I’d much appreciate it.
Duluth made this a long time ago for Rivendell, under the since-discontinued “Baggins Bags” line. Rivendell retired some Tolkein names at the request of the copyright holders (not the film company). Quickbeam was one, and Baggins was another. The new Riv line is “Sackville,” which is also a Tolkein reference, but made the cut. Less famous, maybe.
skate deck pedals, originally uploaded by BikeTinker.
Jim Greco skate deck pedal platforms on Etsy – no cleats.
I added a pair of skate deck pedals to my Etsy store. This pair still has the graphics on the bottom for extra punk. The other ones are maple-bottomed, but I haven’t added them yet.
I noticed the chain was a little slack (and the new S3X internals seem to have much less slop than the old, so I’m thinking “win!”), and the wheel has slipped a little – it’s cocked between the stays.
Loosen both nuts, straighten up the wheel, tighten the offside nut, tighten the drive-side nut, and CRACK! with a couple chrome flakes raining down.
Kind of bummed out my Sunday.
LDs, originally uploaded by Joel Greenblatt | Clockwork Bikes.
Ibis LD stem replicas! From Clockwork Bikes… $200, with a choice of clamp size and style (2-bolt or 1-bolt), color, etc. These look great, and if you click through to Joel’s photostream (click the pictures) you can get his contact info and see the stems being made.
I bought some 60mm Big Apples for Jim’s old Gary Fisher Utopia. These things are so fat that when I opened the box, I thought there were two big pythons in it!
These tires make this bike into an ideal Gravel Roadster.* Two speeds, super fat tires, flared drops, rigid fork. It’s pretty light, even though the tires are not. The tires barely fit in the back, solely because of the front derailer cable stop, which I filed down two millimeters for a little extra clearance. You have to look at the gap square on to see that the stop doesn’t actually touch the crown of the tire.
I did see with these tires that the wheel needed a little dishing adjustment – the tires almost rubbed on the right stay, but had lots of room on the left. I gave the left-pulling spokes a half turn tighter, and the right-pulling spokes a half-turn looser, and it seems perfect now. I don’t know if the frame is misaligned, or the wheel was improperly dished, but it doesn’t really matter now, and I can always adjust the wheel later if it’s an issue. These 60mm Big Apples actually measure 53mm on these WTB SpeedDisc rims
“Roadsters” apparently lack of any form of weather protection, but I’d like to make some demi-fenders like Sycip’s Oregon Manifest trike. A full fender in the rear would take a lot of modification: a slot for the seat tube, and possibly a split at the seatstay bridge. I plan to buy a dynamo hub for the front, but not for a while yet.
* Near as a Google search can tell me, I picked up the term “gravel roadster” from someone on the RBW list describing their Rawland rSogn, and “dirt roadster” appears regularly on Coconino Cycles’ blog.
new Sunrace Sturmey Archer S3X internals, originally uploaded by BikeTinker.Sturmey Archer’s U.S. rep got the parts to me in TWO DAYS, no questions asked. New internals for the S3X, and a new shifter because some of the first ones had been mis-indexed, and may have caused the problem in the first place. I could have shipped the wheel to Napa, and the rep would have done the repair, but this seemed faster and more fun. It kind of was.
I had to take it to Tommy’s to get the left cone nuts removed. They were on so tightly that I bent my old Eldi cone wrenches trying to remove them. I ordered a pair of Park wrenches for the future.
While I was there, Ben was like, “It’s out – do you want me to just put the new one in?” Umm, “yes please.” I was on my way to the Oregon Manifest party, and didn’t really want to be doing the operation in Chris King’s parking lot. Might’ve garnered some attention, but still…
I need to adjust the cones, I think. I read something on the internet about setting the right cones exactly, and then adjusting from the left, but didn’t want to get all “I read this on the internet” to a professional bike mechanic.
So I’m happy, the bike rolls well, it works in all three gears, and the slightly higher gear I chose when I put it back together is better for keeping up with traffic.
What we’re looking at here is the Mafac ‘Racer’ centerpull arm used as a bracket to put the light where he wants it. I think an eBay Racer would cost more than a new Herse bracket, though.
light mount based on somervillian’s design., originally uploaded by skvidal.
And another direction, also very cool… “Campy Light Mount” for the win. You could get 4 or 5 out of one chainring. Depending how big it is, I guess…
Clicking this link » http://sooper-genius.blogspot.com/2007/09/silver-wire-bar-wrap-finisher.html Should now redirect to » https://www.biketinker.com/2007/projects/silver-wire-bar-wrap-finisher/
I used the “Import” button under the “Tools” menu to bring in all the posts. I deleted the non-bike posts (“The Truth About Circumcision” is no more), recategorized all the imported posts, and used the Blogger to WordPress Redirection Plugin to make redirects on the blogspot blog.
Easier than I expected it to be. I almost forgot – I also added a “nofollow” to the blogspot blog, so hopefully Google will forget that content was ever there.
It makes me happy to clean up that outstanding stuff, and I’m pleased that the comments came over, too. If you commented over there, it should show up here, including what I think is Keith Bontrager complimenting my mountain bike…
I probably did break some links on teh internets, though, and I apologize.
thumbies, originally uploaded by aaron schmidt.
I really like Aaron’s idea! He’s using Paul “thumbies” (handlebar mounts for bar-end shifters), in order to make a set of high-quality stem shifters.
