Yup thanks guys, I think it may have to be a combination of the two, shave the edge of the blocks and mount them upside down maybe :-/
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then when the other roadies enquire about your groupset you can say with a look of superiority "oh, it's a custom 105"
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:-)) very good!
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Shaving the brake blocks might help initially but unless you do it right across their thickness they'll still head into the sidewall once they start to wear.
Can you break out the Dremel and elongate the slots in the caliper? Bit drastic to do to brand new components, but you can probably gain at least an extra millimetre of drop that way.
(for extra techie points, I'm typing while still wearing oily rubber gloves as I'm currently waiting for some rubber solution glue to dry, and the back wheel of my Brompton is languishing on my floor.)
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I'm typing while still wearing oily rubber gloves as I'm currently waiting for some rubber solution glue to dry
Best keep that sort of thing to yourself, Eric Pork-and-Pickle Pie doesn't need any more cyclo-rubber fetish ammunition.
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That's an obvious thought, (why didn't I think of that? I'm supposed to be an engineer fhs!) good point well made, and extra points for your oily gloves ;-)
Don't have/use a dremel, but I have suitable size of round file...
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Well I'm mending this morning's Faerie attack, but you'll just have to take my word for it. :-)
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The faeries are tooling up and attacking cyclists? :-o
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@Arellcat Seems to be the day for puncture repair, took a 3mm thorn from my '1 year anti-puncture guaranteed' conti's today.
Careful you dont bond your gloves to the innertube!
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Kaputnik, those are brilliant. Epic fail! :)
I removed a shard of grit from my tyre this evening. About 5mm long and shaped like a tiny little flint arrowhead. Kevlar, eh?
Now: multitools. I was thinking about the Topeak Alien II or the Alien RX, for the sensibly sized chain tool and the multiplicity of Allen wrenches and spanners. Any other favourites amongst CCEers?
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Don't do it.It'll be a bodge and you'll end up ruining the calipers and the blocks.They're the wrong size.....see if you can swap 'em for different ones or sell 'em and buy new ones that fit.
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@kaputnic lol very good, is it wrong that I can identify the model of bent in the first one? Gotta be a Challenge with the shock at that angle...
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Very funny and very creative.. you don't work in this industry do you?
Great effort... that should fill a page in the next CC!
Sorry your SpDs stuck - get well soon could be a good one.
rtc Gotta be a Challenge with the shock at that angle...
Is a Furai or the new Hurricane I think... need to send them this!D
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you don't work in this industry do you?
unfortunately not. I work for the sitting at a desk behind Excel 2003 industry...
Is a Furai or the new Hurricane I think
You should know, I got the picture from your site! It's this one.
More to come, but watching Laurel and Hardy tonight. Got an idea for a cable snapping one, a road bike fail one and the SPD one is good too.
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How about 'Congratulations! Its a BIKE!'
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Gloves?
Before we got hitched the memsahib used to remark on the way I turned up at pizza joints with oily mittens and didn't feel this to be a barrier to scoffing dinner. Now she knows I'll strip hubs in the kitchen.
I'm wearing oil (and a few other things). Partly because I was putting a Reelight back into position but mostly because I was showing a friend at work how a three speed hub works. I took an old busted SRAM Brompton hub to work with me.
Since he teaches physics he wondered if I could use the EBC wireless computer's erroneous speed reading to calculate the flashing frequency of my light. Sure enough you can. I used Numbers but you could also do it on the back of an envelope.
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Laidback, I'd already spotted kappies efforts on Flickr and was thinking along the same lines...
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Yeah well you all saw what I said about parsnip cake :)
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