FlatSix911

Wow, we have to hear more about the seat post removal!

jp_guest

Here is my new SS that I got from Bikes Direct. It is a Dawes SST AL. Its my first SS and my first road bike in general. I'm stoked to get into this hobby!

Street rider

Congrats and welcome!

Soo__Fuego

With the flipped and chopped bars.

IthaDan 

Followed the advice on Sheldon Brown's site and fed ammonia into the seattube through a hole in the [empty, with no BB] BB shell, swapped it daily for a week only to find it didn't do anything but cause the bond on the head of the seatpost to separate from the post itself. Imagine my surprise when I came home to a throwaway seat (used to wedge a 2x4 between it and the stand to try to use the front triangle for leverage- no dice), still attached to the clamp sitting in a pool of ammonia on the garage floor under the stand holding the frame upside-down. Having the head come off was kind of nice actually, I got the clamp out of the way, and let me stick a tape measure in there to see how long the post actually was and how much of it was in the frame.

I didn't really mind the being patient part, normally it would have killed me, because I had a crazy hectic week and didn't have time anyway. Then came yesterday, when I decided it was time to really get this done. Grabbed the biggest pipe wrench I have and went to town on the post only to get nowhere at all. The post was a full foot long, but thankfully a lot of it was showing (The cut piece is about 6.5"), so the piece on the left I lopped off, leaving about 1" of post proud of the top of the seattube, with a hacksaw to lessen the amount I'd have to cut. A while back, I'd picked up one of these:



So I just went at it, two cuts, going slow to get through the post and not the frame. I also made a mark on the blade where the length of the post was, and kept cutting right around there- any longer and I wouldn't get through the end of the post, trigonometry wouldn't allow it. Thankfully alloy and steel feel different enough that it's not really a big deal to tell when you're through (when I knew I was close, I was just holding a bare blade), so when the time came, I gave the post a bump with a hammer INTO the frame to get it moving then out came the f*uckoff pipe wrench again, and I twisted and pulled the post pieces out. I hadn't cut all the way through on both cuts, but I had on one, which was enough movement to break the oxidization. I finished the second cut to show off on the interwebs.

Took me about 3 hours and 5 hacksaw blades of varying coarseness (18, 24, 36TPI) all told, but it served as a nice proof of concept and will be a nice skill to have to rescue frames that otherwise would be useless. I can't say which TPI or which orientation worked best, as one clogged, I'd grab another and try to feel if it was cutting or polishing. One of the toughest parts is setting the cut off the bat as the blade wants to dance around on the end of the post inside the frame, but I got it, crooked cut and all.

/WALL OF TEXT

evilcryalotmore

IthaDan 

Scrodzilla

How far back the saddle is on this bike in relation to everything else is incredibly silly. I'd love to see a video of you riding in the drops.

prooftheory

At any rate it looks better with that seat.

8bits

for real, I would put a setback seatpost backwards and my seat far to the front to ride this bike

LessonLearned

Here's my wife's bike. 1982 Schwinn Varsity converted to SS. Has Brooks sprung saddle, Tektro brakes, Velocity rims, 700x28 Vittoria Randonneurs, MKS Sylvan touring pedals, Origin8 crank, 39/16 gearing (SS), KMC 410 chain (yellow)... basically it's the most overpriced Schwinn Varsity I've ever seen lol. But she likes it a lot. People actually offer to buy it off her often. Just strangers on the street.

mattheis

Took the wife's townie to the grocery store on Sunday. Really need to find a nice leather pannier set... that doesnt cost $400. This LG bag can hold a *****load tho.

kato7997

Maybe he has a really long torso and femurs?

ddeadserious

solipsist716

Bahahahaha!

LessonLearned

Latest edition...

Scrodzilla

hailandkill

ballin' ice cream paint job

LessonLearned

Damnit scrod, stealing my thunder with your pepto bizmo sex machine

Scrodzilla

Sorry man!

Sherblock

Future head tube badge?

Mumonkan

not saying that its a bad thing, but what made you choose that color? very bold

mor pix please

Street rider

Because whats better than seeing a dude with huge long dreads riding a sparkly pink bike?

evilcryalotmore

the saddle nose to bars is only 54 cm O_O I dont get why everyones freaking out, the saddle is only like 13mm from the back end of the BB shell, The wheel base is really short making the frame look contorted

calv