What have you tinkered with today?

[Seeker]

I'd need oxygen to sit on a bike with the saddle that high (and a ladder to get on).

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Chris_SVS

Indeed, this fine steed - it also got a new saddle last week as the stock one was starting to creak and was doing my nut in

Ha, I'd find that position a bit extreme, with my lack of flexibility.

I finished building this a couple of weeks ago, it's going to be my winter & do it all bike, as its got rack & mudguard mounts


IMG_20190325_110718 by maviczap, on Flickr

[Chris_SVS]

Kinesis stuff is lovely mav. The position isn't as bad as it looks, I have uselessly long legs and a short spine. 6ft3 and this is a 54cm frame.. Other combinations gave me no end of back trouble or hip impingement

[maviczap]

Blimey a 54 is usually too small for me, unless it's got a tall headtube!

[Chris_SVS]

I forgot to add the frame is more CX in geometry (and it's very good offroad with knobblies on!) I had a similar bike in a 56 that was acceptably comfortable in general, but I need so much saddle setback it scared me on a carbon frame.

Loved this thing though, sold a long time ago and never replaced. The chrome decals on wheels reflected the sun beautifully

[Adam Ef]

I have a Trek Emonda that I love. A second hand bargain with lots of scuffs on it. Great to ride though and surprisingly ok for distance, despite being very stiff and responsive.


If I had the money I'd love the disc brake version of the Trek Domane. They come with 32mm tyres as standard and can fit larger, so would be good for semi knobbly tread tyres. They also weight next to nothing. The big frame tubes and chunky tyres make it look like it will be heavy, but it just about floated away when I lifted one up in a shop.

[Chris_SVS]

Emonda,Domane,Madone... Well played TREK

^My green PX above has 28's on it, occasionally 30mm file tread cx tyres.. I used to be all over 23/25c when racing but the comfort of bigger tyres and lower PSI is hard to knock

[Adam Ef]

Also trying to find small block /semi knobbly tyres in less than 32mm is tricky.



Don't forget the accents on the Trek names, and the special pronounciations if you're asking about them at a Trek dealer.

[Chris_SVS]

Originally Posted by Adam Ef

Also trying to find small block /semi knobbly tyres in less than 32mm is tricky.



Don't forget the accents on the Trek names, and the special pronounciations if you're asking about them at a Trek dealer.

I'm from NI, pronouncing TREK model names is the least of my problems

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by Othen

Happiness is: a 75W soldering iron. After many years of making do with my (perfectly good for electronics) Maplin soldering iron in the garage, I recently bought myself a 75W soldering iron for joining wires and heavier duty jobs.

I tried it out yesterday (fitting some LED indicators to my K6). It is the business for joining wires: no more waiting 5 minutes for the iron to warm up, or not having enough heat, this makes nice joints in seconds. I wouldn’t want to use it near electronic components, but what it does it does very well indeed.




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Think the biggest I have got is about 75watt, mind you when the radiator on my Vauhall Viva leaked around the top seam I shaped a big lump of copper ( about 50mm x 20mm x 70mm long with a steel rod and wooden file handle ) with a smaller end to fit into the solder channel around top of rad and heated it up with gas stove burner and it did the job beautifully..

Thinking about it that Viva was a right bag of 5h1t ....

Also got a couple of Iroda butane powered soldering iron with several tips and a blowtorch nozzle, useful for heatshrink sleeving. Means you don't need a mains cable and they are about 35 watts ( adjustable ).