http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: It's not JUST about colour co-ordination en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:19:13 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096&page=2#post-54250 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:35:09 +0000 Arellcat 54250@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Very nice ... but the lamp? Is it a recycled coke can?</em></p> <p>That big scar Anth has on his arm? I wonder if it hides a hyperalloy combat chassis, and the 'cooling ribs' on that lamp are actually the result of a death grip.</p> <p>@smudge, the black tape matches the black pinstriping on the mudguards, but look at that clashing silver handlebar! :)</p> <p>@wingpig, Avid's V-brake cartridge pad holders seem pretty good to me in terms of metal strength. No reason not to use them on roadie calipers. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54236 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:36:42 +0000 Smudge 54236@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Black tape to finish brown handlebar tape? tsk!</p> <p>;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54235 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:30:40 +0000 wingpig 54235@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@kaputnik I've had that too, but only because the bolt/screw is usually welded to the holder, despite having been thoroughly <a href="http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/1389125">lubed</a> before insertion. If the screws/bolts weren't glued so tightly the cheese-strength Allen socket wouldn't be so much of a problem. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54233 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:26:03 +0000 kaputnik 54233@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig - the problem I have had is not the brake block holder and retaining screw welding together, it is the head of the screw being made of too soft a cheese and the screwhead / allen key head stripping </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54232 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:22:45 +0000 Stepdoh 54232@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You killed Wall-E! You monster. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54230 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:20:56 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 54230@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe next winter...</p> <p><img src="http://www.ayup-lights.com/galleries/lights/orange_pv.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54229 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:15:56 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 54229@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>Other than what min is on about, question of the day is, when is anth going to go get his light elecroplated with gold to bring in the bling.</em>"</p> <p>I have to admit it was bought when my main commuter was my Peacemaker - in white and red. If I was buying it anew I'd be looking to see if it was available in gold! (I know Ay-Up lights used to have a gold option). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54226 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:45:31 +0000 steveo 54226@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"Min those ribs are "cooling fins" ;)"</p> <p>For cooling. Not for pleasure. Of course. ;-)<br /> </em></p> <p>Bwahaaahaa... </p> <p>Sorry just sprayed polo mints over my desk.</p> <p>/Clearly more dirty minded than some of others.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54224 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:44:00 +0000 wingpig 54224@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On the off-topic of the cheesiness of calipers, is there such a thing as a caliper pad cartridge-holder thing where the pad-retaining bolt and the bit of the holder into which the pad-retaining bolt is <strike>screwed</strike> bolted are a: made of the same material so that they don't end up welded together and b: not made of cheese? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54223 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:42:56 +0000 Min 54223@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Min those ribs are "cooling fins" ;)"</p> <p>For cooling. Not for pleasure. Of course. ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54222 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:36:30 +0000 kaputnik 54222@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Min those ribs are "cooling fins" ;)</p> <p><em>any recommendations for caliper brakes</em></p> <p>Shimano 105 can fit a P35 SKS guard comfortably. As can the SRAM "Road" calipers (bottom of their range)</p> <p>105 is a nice caliper. Solidly made and handsome. SRAMs are a bit more of cheese strength. But not a soft cheese, a hard cheese like a Parmesan. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54221 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:32:58 +0000 riffian 54221@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>any recommendations for caliper brakes</em></p> <p>I like my Shimano R650 - long drop so you can fit guards underneath. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54220 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:31:08 +0000 Stepdoh 54220@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Other than what min is on about, question of the day is, when is anth going to go get his light elecroplated with gold to bring in the bling. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54218 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:12:08 +0000 Stepdoh 54218@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>you have to elucidate on that one. Honest （￣ー￣） </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54217 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:09:06 +0000 amir 54217@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Errr! My mind is so clean that I don't get it.<br /> :( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54216 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:06:11 +0000 Min 54216@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You obviously have a cleaner mind than I do Amir! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54215 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:03:37 +0000 amir 54215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very nice ... but the lamp? Is it a recycled coke can? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54214 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:54:04 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 54214@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/6748818013/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7031/6748818013_b898e8649c.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/6748818013/">Untitled</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/">blackpuddinonnabike</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54198 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:58:53 +0000 Stepdoh 54198@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yeah, like he'll actually walk past it without patting it a bit ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54196 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:53:22 +0000 chdot 54196@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"as I'll be walking past the bike"</p> <p>It'll be upset... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54195 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:45:17 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 54195@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh aye. Will grab a pic at lunchtime as I'll be walking past the bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54194 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:44:25 +0000 ruggtomcat 54194@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>gold? really? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54192 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:40:19 +0000 Uberuce 54192@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm internally demon-rassling over the choice of gold brakes as spotted by Kap, or staying with black and keeping the gold bling to a more restrained level. There are also one or two brakes with touches of red on them, which fits the black/red/gold of the paint.</p> <p>Does anyone have any recommendations for caliper brakes, purely in terms of performance? Then I can select colours. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54188 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:24:15 +0000 chdot 54188@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yooo peeeple </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54184 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:15:14 +0000 Stepdoh 54184@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You people are a bad influence. </p> <p><a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Clarks-Universal-Gear-Cable-Set-MTB-Road-Bike-RED-/160618910301#vi-content">http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Clarks-Universal-Gear-Cable-Set-MTB-Road-Bike-RED-/160618910301#vi-content</a></p> <p>Chirpy cheap cheap though once you take into account the various bits included. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54182 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:12:15 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 54182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>More worryingly I could pull alongside in traffic and be invisible! ;)</p> <p>saharalatte rocks! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54179 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:02:36 +0000 Stepdoh 54179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anth, have you noticed that the bang up to date Lothian Buses hybrid 10s are rockin' the saharalatte Kaff colourscheme now? You could take your bike on and it would be almost invisible. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54176 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:54:28 +0000 Stepdoh 54176@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My bike is red, black and white/silver. Thinking Red cables would be over-egging it a bit (what with the rider's garish accessorising).</p> <p><a href="http://www.wiggle.co.uk/clarks-universal-front-and-rear-gear-cable-kit/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=base&amp;utm_campaign=uk&amp;utm_content=Clarks-Clarks_Universal_Front_and_Rear_Gear_Cable_Kit-Red#more">Although...</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54173 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:48:07 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 54173@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is important stuff.</p> <p>Funny, as well, how different things work for different bikes. On the X I wanted the orange cables to jump out and provide a splash of colour on the monochrome bike.</p> <p>On the Kaff there's colourfulness already, and the gold cables, garish though that sounds, actually merge in with the colour scheme rather than standing out like the black ones did. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5096#post-54159 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:25:42 +0000 Arellcat 54159@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah yes, the thread that brought us into the amazing world of <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4197">brown mudguards</a>.</p> <p>Black and silver vs silver and black, all part of <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4197#post-43639">the plan</a>. </p>