The Frame Remains the Same
05-14-10, 04:54 AM
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The Frame Remains the Same
Just reassembled it last night.
This bike has changed a lot in the past 5 years, but still remains fixed
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05-14-10, 06:45 AM
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Nice looking build, but you have way too much housing from the top tube to the rear brake and possibly too little from the bars to the top tube for the rear brake.
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Agree about the excessive brake housing loop in back. I also noticed that the saddle height/bar height relationship is a lot different. The older build had the bars a bit below the saddle while the new build has them significantly above the saddle.
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I'd be willing to bet the handlebars have been raised since the cabling was in place. It doesn't look like the same kind in the original. The front fork changed to a unicrown, I'd bet the bars went up the amount of the dull coloured spacers which would tighten up the front cabling drops (the fron brake looks short also).
I believe the Midge bars (off roading) are most effective when the hooks are almost level with the saddle. And its obvious we've gone from a road riding machine to something for trails.
I believe the Midge bars (off roading) are most effective when the hooks are almost level with the saddle. And its obvious we've gone from a road riding machine to something for trails.
05-14-10, 01:06 PM
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Yeah, that excess housing at the back appeared when I moved to the Midge bars and recabled with JagWire housings. I just never go around to trimming it.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
