Originally Posted by
DogBoy
Looks good. in my best overly critical voice: Pedals are parallel with the ground, garage door is white, tire lables aligned with the valves...but you didn't hide the valves behind the frame/fork, so a few deductions there. This isn't the road bike forum, so no need to "flip it." The fenders are a bit far away from the tires, but if you run larger tires during some parts of the year that would explain it. Overall I give it a 9.0.
Good stuff! It makes me feel like I'm on the 41 -- well except that you had some positive things to say.
Originally Posted by
DogBoy
I am curious about two things I think I see: Are you using brifters for the brake levers but using bar end shifters to actually shift? If so is it due to different speed alignments? Are those v-brakes, and if so, how are you getting the pull adjusted to work with the road bike brake levers?
Yes! The brake levers are Ultegra 6501 brifters. I picked them up at a swap meet a few years ago. They were only $10 because the shifting didn't work. I opened them up, gutted the shifting mechanism, rigged something to keep them from swiveling and dremmeled off the plastic bit where the shift cable exited. Now they're a nice pair of brake levers (though perhaps a bit ugly). And, yes, those are V-brakes -- Avid Arch Rivals, to be specific. Those are pretty ugly too. I'm using
Travel Agents to get the cable pull right. It works surprisingly well, but I'm thinking about just getting some long pull brake levers to clean everything up a bit.
The other oddity that you might not be able to see in the picture above is that the Travel Agents have barrel adjusters but I also have an inline barrel adjuster (you can see it in
this view). I did that when I had this stuff on the RockHopper because I accidentally cut the cable housing too short and the RockHopper was too much of a beater for me to bother fixing it. I'll clean that kind of thing up after I get the fit dialed in.