Recent content by Dr Dremel

I was about to make a start on a wheelset I wanted to build, but the weather was surpringsingly fine, if a bit windy. Nothing beats a retro ride to get rid of the stress during the week! Hope you guys also got out to hit reset.

Waaait a sec, do I suddenly see an inscritpiton appear?!

and I love it 😇

Proper nerdy in here, never knew I would find cycling computers interesting. Going from what @novocaine posted, maybe if you half the number of magnets in the 3D printed ring it would help the sensor pick up the changes in the magnetic field more easily? If it´s possible to double the wheel...

Salsa stem and chromo bars (thanks again @narcotitlan for the bars). Aside from the cult factor, I love the bomb proof feeling the stems give when the going gets rough. My Marin roller stem, despite being 1 1/8", does flex a lot more (and is about 100g lighter). Bars also have the perfect sweep...

Just from watching the video - it looks like a new way to pump up your front tire?

Nitto S65 comes to mind (Nitto also manufactured the early Ritchey posts). Really beautiful piece and still available new. But personally on a Rocky I couldn´t bring myself to run anything else but a Syncros post. Otherwise it would be like a peanutbutter and Nutella sandwich.

Looks like you´ve grown a bit in the mean time 😋

I mean maybe not exacly like that with the lathe and math and everything. But there´s useful info in the video and I did make some springs out of musical wire and much simpler tools myself. It´s simpler than one may think really.

From the parts diagram the springs do look a lot like cantilever springs, but without them in hand it´s hard to jugde what the size is. Failing to find fitting ones you could try your hand in making them yourself?

I mean it can´t stay like it is now, can it? Looks like the paint is peeling all by itself, so worth a shot with a mild paint stripper to save what´s underneath.

Feeling more and more like I´m in a black mirror episode. You know the one where they elect a cartoon character as president ...

I think you´re slightly missing the point. I´ve bid my max amount. After the auction ended I was the hightest bidder. Only to find that for others the auction apparently did not end and I was outbid after the fact. Would you not be dissapointed/miffed/enraged?

Yeah that was my plan also. See above ... Still no answer from ebay BTW (I filed a complaint)

Re colour: Last year I had the chance to see this beauty with my own eyes (ex- Mombat): This does not have the sculptured fillets but I found the colour to be sublime.