GAVITAS Buffoon could work.
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The Scaffolding Bike
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@steveo The Experiencing a significant scaffolding shortfall?
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I like it wingpig, Banksian.
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Why not just put IWRATS on it?
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@unhurt
I nearly thanked IWRATS in the acknowledgements section of Overlander. Step too far.
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GATEWAY Utensil
SUNLIT Uplander
BAFFLED F***witThese are all Paolozzi pieces, aren't they?
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@winpig
Space is at a premium on modern hydro-formed frames. Much as I appreciate a nod to the sadly departed master.
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MODERN scaffold
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I toyed with LAVENDER Menace but I'm as straight as the day is long so it would have to be LAVENDER Aggressor or it wouldn't make sense.
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The length of days varies through the year.
These are all Paolozzi pieces, aren't they?
@Frenchy I've moved you back to the top of my "most favourite CCEr" list again.
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@unhurt
I still feel faint at the thought of owning a Rose Beefcake.
That's better than anything I could invent.
Also days get inexorably longer until the Earth just stops spinning.
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Fitted the head bearings and fork and went to install the rear brake. Couldn't find the hose anywhere. Accused all and sundry of hiding or throwing it out.
Checked Wiggle - I never actually ordered it. Remember now they only had the shorter front brake kit when I tried to buy. Phantom component syndrome.
Bike Station and Co-op don't stock it, Pedals do but £13 dearer than Wiggle so another internet sale RIP high street.
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We're getting closer to seeing Experiencing a significant scaffolding shortfall back on the roads and trails. Brake hose is in the post and yesterday I got the decals from Vistaprint.
Applied the protective 3M tape to the drive-side chain-stay as a warm up, went to apply the branding and....they'd printed it on white rather than transparent backing. Doh. Straight on the chat to a dude in India all apologies order reprinted and being couriered to me as I type.
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Keep typing or it'll stop moving.
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Struggled manfully with the back brake but it refused to fill with oil. Checked all of the things. The problem lies with the lever which I got for £2 out of the Bike Station.
Nothing I could do would persuade it to allow oil to flow into the reservoir past the master piston. It's supposed to be open as long as the lever isn't compressed. Baffled. Maybe that's why it was donated in the first place?
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You know how you cast aspersions on my mechanical disc brakes? Just wanted to helpfully point out that they have never presented a problem of this nature.
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The old adage of "less is more", or perhaps "the more features, the more can go wrong"...
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@crowriver oh absolutely...past a certain point complicatedness turns into complexity and we start thinking about the horrible world of Resilience...
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Well, the simple and resilient means of transport is to walk. Bicycling involves some mechanical complexity in return for speed and comfort. Cable-operated disc brakes should be fine, but in my experience they are designed to be upgraded - mechanically poor internals intended for a season or two at best and always a bit draggy. I like the plush feel of hydraulics and once you've got them set up they're very low fuss. I also get a testosterone rush from mastering the mechanics of them.
My favourite new complication is putting the front forks off a Honda Super Cub on a downhill mountain bike.
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"Well, the simple and resilient means of transport is to walk. "
Generally I agree. However, unless you go barefoot, there can be much complexity involved in choosing the right shoes these days...
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No Vibram® sole, no sale.
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Disassembled the offending brake lever and err....blew through it. Put it back together and it now works. Just had a bit of crud in the master cylinder.
I am surfing the testosterone wave of mechanical success.
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If I drop off my bike at your book thing could you share a breath to puff it clean?
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@wingpig
I shall mostly be hyperventilating at that time.
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Rear brake filled and bled. Interesting how stripping the lever has given me total confidence in that process. I've done it quite a few times but always with a nagging feeling the levers might operate by magic.
Cranks on, rear mech on. Now to cancel my Vista print sticker order hahahaha. Ha.
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We're just about there. Took the SUNLIT Uplander for a shake-down ride to the shops last night (finally got the stickers sorted out) and it was good. Any build of new and second-hand bits always takes a bit of fiddling to get silent running but that was pretty close. Rides sweet and, unlike madame IWRATS' bike, actually fits me.
The one thing that was totally wrong was the fork which seems to have the travel half locked out. I suspect I've just put the knob back on out of line with the valve so that when it shows 'open' it's half shut but we shall see.
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No. Not the control knob. I have made a Mistake somewhere.
New seal kit ordered, strip and re-rebuild.
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So examining the service manual and the way the fork is behaving and having extracted the compression damper unit for a peek into the right hand fork leg I'm pretty sure of the origin of my mistake.
I have performed operations for another model of the fork (the manual covers three) and managed to build it so that oil only goes past the rebound damping system downwards. So it's all gone into the fork legs and the piston is sitting on top of that incompressible fluid.
Pretty stupid but I doubt there's any irreversible damage to anything except my fantasies of mechanical competence.
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Cracked the fork open again. Nothing seemed to be out of place and the damper unit was passing oil as it should.
Had a close read of the manual and realised I'd almost certainly simply over-filled the oil in the damper leg. Put it all back together and it seems to be riding fine so far. All fingers crossed. Re-set the brake calipers too.
I'll batter it round Craigmillar Hill tomorrow evening for a proper shake-down.
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