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Headset conquered. I bashed the fork race with a PVC tube and hammer until it fit, and then made my own press out washers, bolts and a threaded rod I got at the hardware store.  Still need to set the starnut and cut the tube...somewhere? Probably after the rest of it is done. Wheel parts are still stuck in customs.
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Turmoilx posted:typing in my measurements on competitive cycle site fit calculator to double triple check before i order a frame but wow .. is it hard for anyone else to understand the directions listed there Sizing bikes yourself is tough, it's why bike fittings exist (and why good ones are expensive)
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May 11, 2023 12:51
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... and also why bad ones get to be expensive too!
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May 11, 2023 12:53
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Turmoilx posted:typing in my measurements on competitive cycle site fit calculator to double triple check before i order a frame but wow .. is it hard for anyone else to understand the directions listed there Sizing varies a great deal between brands / models, best thing to do if you already have a bike that fits is check stack & reach vs. the old frame on https://geometrygeeks.bike/ Knowing the bars will be (with no spacers) 20mm lower and 10mm further away than your current bike is far more use imo.
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May 11, 2023 12:59
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Turmoilx posted:typing in my measurements on competitive cycle site fit calculator to double triple check before i order a frame but wow .. is it hard for anyone else to understand the directions listed there Get a bike fit.
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kimbo305 posted:What price range are you trying to hit? I got a set of Alex rimmed 650B wheels off ebay for $99 and they are fine except for the weight. Cheap as poo poo. Honestly, I’m stretched a bit thin on this restoration project. It’s an old Rockhopper frame from 89, and I went overboard on shiny bits. 
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May 11, 2023 17:42
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 Found my spirit animal today.
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wooger posted:Sizing varies a great deal between brands / models, best thing to do if you already have a bike that fits is check stack & reach vs. the old frame on https://geometrygeeks.bike/  good site. well that's weird.. lol. ..and does anyone by chance know what type/size BB it uses? or am i just best off looking for other builds based off this frame to see what BB they used because the soma website doesn't say from what i saw Turmoilx fucked around with this message at 20:48 on May 11, 2023 |
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Turmoilx posted:
https://www.somafab.com/archives/product/wolverine If it's this one it says 68mm English (And older bikes generally don't have reach and stack listed, it's only become ubiquitous relatively recently)
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May 11, 2023 21:05
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I would be absolutely shocked if they put anything other than standard 68mm BSA on a soma road frame
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I found out that the dropper post I bought isn't going to work great for this bike I'm assembling. Basically it will work, it meets the minimum insertion, but I would be running it fulltime at 60% extension. I'm not sure if I'm going to do that or not yet. But I was thinking about how I screwed up and I'm not sure any dropper post would work on this bike to have the seat fully extended but at the right height.  Basically because the distance between the first braze-on and the seat collar is less than the distance between the seat collar and where I want my butt, it seems like I would always have this compromise no matter what, unless I had a dropper that just was too short and caused the total length to be less than my proper fit.
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You do not need to get a post that drops all the way to the seat collar… what am I missing here?
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For example: https://www.bikeyoke.de/en/revive-185.html Min insertion is 130mm, which seems fine for your braze-on situation, and at that min insertion, collar to seat rails is 355mm. Insert 16mm + [height of seat above rails] past minimum insertion and you're set.
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Yeah sorry, you're right. What you're missing is sleep deprivation, a $200 dropper post covered in some kind of industrial ky jelly you can't use, and an hour squinting at one-up technical drawings with a ruler and a living room that looks like a bomb went off. I took a nap and (mostly) figured it out. Is this enough bar drop?  Seat is going to end up 100mm lower and the stem will probably be moving up another 100mm. Salt Fish fucked around with this message at 03:35 on May 12, 2023 |
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May 12, 2023 03:31
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That color is great
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Clark Nova posted:I would be absolutely shocked if they put anything other than standard 68mm BSA on a soma road frame its not a road frame! .. its an all road frame  plan is a hope BB or chris king MrL_JaKiri posted:https://www.somafab.com/archives/product/wolverine  that just gave me all the info i needed! for now.
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Salt Fish posted:Yeah sorry, you're right. What you're missing is sleep deprivation, a $200 dropper post covered in some kind of industrial ky jelly you can't use, and an hour squinting at one-up technical drawings with a ruler and a living room that looks like a bomb went off. Is the fork around the wrong way or is it just hanging weird because it's all loose?
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yeah everything is just hanging loose relaxing, nothing is torqued down so its just flopping around. You can see the disc brake caliper on the drive side. Once the rims show up next week I'll start actually assembling things.
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Salt Fish posted:yeah everything is just hanging loose relaxing, nothing is torqued down so its just flopping around. You can see the disc brake caliper on the drive side. Once the rims show up next week I'll start actually assembling things. Sweet
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My road bike is cool and fun and I've done a lot of optimisation to it to make it perfect for me, but I also don't like the way it looks and it's pretty beaten up so I've been looking at bikes that are of a similar era and spec Someone talk me out of this this
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it's red like a ferrari that frame bend is a lil weird though right before the seat nose
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Good spotting, I was trying to work out if that's actually bent or if the tube tapers there
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it might be normal not sure
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not suggesting you buy this bike but this is gonna be a good deal for someone. $2300 NZD for a cannondale super six Di2 bike, nice https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/sports/cycling/road-bikes/medium-53-56cm/listing/4122001857
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i am suggesting you buy the cannondale ultegra di2 bike slavvy
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If I were a cash elemental I would do that but it's about ten times my budget
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gently caress these old steel bikes are motherfucking tough. I bent my rear triangle 2 years ago when chain got between casette and spokes, because I was a n00b. Well today I made new wheels because of bearing problems and 13-24 old uniglide 6 speed casette. I made a straight wheel and realized it won't sit straight. I started looking at my rear triangle and at least 4 things are hosed up: - right seatstay is quite a bit bent towards bottom bracket - right seatstay is slightly bent towards left seatstay - left seatstay is slightly bent towards bottom bracket - left seatstay is slightly bent towards left I tried to split a piece of wood and step onto the seatstay with my heel. I tried standing on the seatstay with only one feet, with my full weight. I tried jumping on the setstay. It won't straighten at all. gently caress.  Many companies, including Park Tool, made tools to straighten out seat&chainstays, back in the day: https://www.parktool.com/en-us/product/seat-and-chainstay-straightener-ss-1 I wonder if anyone still in Finland has something like that. Seems I need a real tool, or a friend with more power in legs than I have.
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I ride a giant defy. I do 99% road with just a few occasional gravel sections. I was thinking of swapping the stick 32mm giant fondo 1 tires for some gp5000 slicks. What width should I go with? The wheels are giant PR2s.
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Hutzpah posted:I ride a giant defy. I do 99% road with just a few occasional gravel sections. I was thinking of swapping the stick 32mm giant fondo 1 tires for some gp5000 slicks. What width should I go with? The wheels are giant PR2s. 32mm would work well for both. Maybe 35 if you want to sacrifice some road speed for more gravel capability
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You could likely underbite on 32s or 30s. There’s a short gravel section after a giant climb around here that I power through on 30s.
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Whoops wrong thread
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Is there a good place to find structured training plans other than something like Trainer Road? I don’t think I am really at a point where I need something super complex. Mostly just looking to have some sort of structure to get a bit fitter when biking, but ideally something which allows for a sort of wildcard ride on the weekend. I do have power/now heart rate tracked + trainer access. E: eg according to Zwift i am at like 2.5 w/kg, so pretty beginner
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tildes posted:Is there a good place to find structured training plans other than something like Trainer Road? I don’t think I am really at a point where I need something super complex. Mostly just looking to have some sort of structure to get a bit fitter when biking, but ideally something which allows for a sort of wildcard ride on the weekend. I do have power/now heart rate tracked + trainer access. This is good and flexible, I have used it quite a bit when life gets in the way of things like the Zwift plans which don’t allow much leeway: https://sparecycles.blog/2022/01/02/sustainable-training/
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450g full carbon forks for under $300, why do they have an option to "add headset lower" to the cost though, that comes with a headset doesn't it, confused on that. looks like a good choice though https://www.statebicycle.com/collections/frames/products/state-bicycle-co-carbon-fiber-black-label-gravel-fork how do i find a crankset to use for this 104mm bcd ? i been searchin but havin a real hard time, for 68/73mm BB or just 68?  or 130mm 5 bolt too i guess, i've not tried that yet, is this a 'you must use gates for this part too' kinda thing ..i hate that for this part. i sent a question about it to universal cycle site maybe those geniuses know of something im missing. so don't bother to look if you don't know it either.. let them do the impossible closest i got was finding a spider by northshore that is the right size but im not familiar i looked around on reddit before postin here the past two days and.. it was terrible. i hate to come here asking my dumb idiot questions about a thing that no one (maybe 2) uses on a build here the answer seems to be "Get a direct mount crankset and a 104bcd spider" i saw on the internet. that helps some, direct mount Turmoilx fucked around with this message at 11:54 on May 13, 2023 |
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tildes posted:Is there a good place to find structured training plans other than something like Trainer Road? I don’t think I am really at a point where I need something super complex. Mostly just looking to have some sort of structure to get a bit fitter when biking, but ideally something which allows for a sort of wildcard ride on the weekend. I do have power/now heart rate tracked + trainer access. Have you tried the trainerroad free trial? I like trainerroad, used it for a couple of years over winter but just let my subscription go as I’m not sure I’ll use it enough/at all over summer. And their high price, legacy pricing for older customers & billing in USD means I’m paying 3x what some of their customers are, which feels like a pisstake. If they fulfilled all the promise they have & correctly tracked and incorporated ad-hoc outside rides into the training progress/plans, maybe it’d be worth it, but they’re not there yet. There are more expensive alternatives like training peaks. There’s the training bits of zwift, which I can’t stand. There’s a far cheaper clone of trainerroad called TrainerDay, which works fine, obviously lacks the claimed behind the scenes magic of trainerroad, but sadly still has subscription pricing. £4.99 /month is 1/4 the price of trainerroad where I am though. Maybe worth having a look at the free trial for Wahoo SYSTM for something a bit different.
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Turmoilx posted:450g full carbon forks for under $300, why do they have an option to "add headset lower" to the cost though, that comes with a headset doesn't it, confused on that. looks like a good choice though Whats the bike the crank is going on? You have to have a belt drive compatible frame/bike to use that part which I’m not sure you have.
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I need to start following gpx files on mtb rides. I normally use strava but free version doesn’t support loading them afaik. What’s the best non-subscription ios app? I don’t mind paying but I don’t want to pay Outside yearly or whatever.
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WorkOutDoors is really good if you have an apple watch
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vikingstrike posted:Whats the bike the crank is going on? You have to have a belt drive compatible frame/bike to use that part which I’m not sure you have. If you read up the thread OP specifically bought the Wolverine to work with this belt drive build. Regarding crank compatibility: if not going all Gates, I'd probably look for something with the right BCD from a fairly known name then email Gates to find out if their chainring will fit.
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Vando posted:If you read up the thread OP specifically bought the Wolverine to work with this belt drive build. Ah whoops my bad
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