sabato 1 maggio 2021
Sancineto
martedì 30 marzo 2021
Swiss Cross - nearly there
sabato 27 marzo 2021
Gitane Record old steel
giovedì 18 marzo 2021
Swiss Cross
domenica 14 marzo 2021
Stevens X8C trekking
Springy Van Nicholas
lunedì 8 febbraio 2021
P650b 1.0
domenica 7 febbraio 2021
Two special guests for 2021
And yet we are, after so long since my last post.
This Christmas I got again into the thing, and decided to pull the trigger on a frameset, just for fun - and use all of these (mostly old) spares laying around my new shed.
I must admit that I actually bought two frames, just because the one below was somehow cheap on Amazon.
So, I ended up with two nice steel frameset to dress up:
I took my time to prepare these frames with some fogging oil (something I never did). This should help the tubes to stay healthier for more time.
I think that the P650b is now sorted - bar some minor adjustments should I decide to keep as it is. The Swisscross is still a work in progress, hopefully it will take no more than another week.
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Eccoci qui, dopo una lunga pausa dal mio ultimo post.
Per Natale ho trovato un bel telaio che ho comprato, tanto per montarci sopra i vecchi componenti che avevo sparsi qua e la'.
In effetti di telai ne ho comprati due, solo perche' uno e' venuto via con pochi euro su Amazon.
Quindi adesso i telai da montare son due!
Per la prima volta, ho impiegato il tempo per preparare i tubi, prima di montarli, spruzzandoli con abbondante olio. QUesto trattamento iniziale dovrebbe mantenerli in salute per molto tempo.
Penso che la P650b sia quasi pronta, a parte qualche piccolo aggiustamento. La Swisscross e' ancora sotto i ferri, spero di finirla presto.
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giovedì 21 giugno 2018
Frame geometry
Head tube is 72° and the seat tube is 73,5°, which is (I think) somehow normal but, going back to an old Morati catalogue, I found out that my HC 1.3 has 71°-73° that is incredibly closer to the current CX setup of my Amazon.
With a fork 1cm shorter (Crisp...), it can reach the same steep head tube angle.
c
mercoledì 18 aprile 2018
A couple of (not so recent) pictures
So, here it is, in it's almost latest setup (I took out the Restrap bag and the rear light).
I switched the front stem with a 120mm one (Brand X, good and cheap from CRC)
With these Tektro generic brakes, there are no probs with 28mm tyres (but I won't be able to use any full size mudguards...)
and
This is somehow a good idea, tried to place the rear light (with the help of a tiny P-clip) on the rear axle (using the fender bolt hole)
The biggest change here was going 1x. I took out both chainrings, front mech and its suport to use a narrow-wide 44 chainring (bought on eBay) along with a 10s 11-36 cassette.
Tightening the B screw, 105 rear mech can cope with the big cog. I may need a slightly shorter cassette but is not an issue, never had a chain drop since then.
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