Cycling UK Forum

chappy44 wrote:Cheers for the replies,

Going to get myself an extra spacer. Stem bolts were loose and does feel as though it could be bottoming out on the steerer.

Yeah. Would be a lot of faff to cut a little off the steerer.

Just to echo what others have said, as you the tighten the top cap it should compress the steering assembly in a downward fashion. The plug sits in the steerer tube maybe only 10-15mm deep. You can have the top cap resting on either a spacer above the stem or the stem itself. And as you tighten the ...

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You needn't have worried about that last bit, and maybe needn't have taken so much material off. Not that many UK framebuilders have ever built with titanium, if any at all. I mean in a TIG welding kind of way. One guy who used to TIG weld steel also pretended to weld titanium, but he was in fact ju...

This is the guy who machines perfectly round press-fit aluminium BB cups in his shed and then makes infantile Internet videos about them not fitting properly in imperfectly round BB shells, some of them part of expensive bike frames. Nothing burger, as they say. Everyone else is clever enough to use...

Eyebrox wrote:I remove the chain and place it in a round Tupperware container, ....

Those quick links have a limit to the number of times they can be split and re-joined, so I do my cleaning with the chain on the bike.

I'm guessing they're FSA Pro chainrings - widely available, decent price. Just as well to stick with the same. Or maybe FSA Super? Where it says on your chainring 'N10' or 'N11' or whatever, the 'N' denotes Shimano and the number the speed. It might in fact say 'N10/11', meaning the chainting is sui...

1/ I've tried a 24t on various ROAD triples and the results have been poor. My general rule is to stick with a smallest chainring of 26. 2/ The typically lower-end front derailleurs, eg. Sora, Tiagra, 105, with greater curvature can do a smaller jump between middle and outer chainring than the typic...

Never trust a chain wear checker. Flawed thinking.

Torso length does not determine saddle setback, in case it hasn't been stated already.

Stronglight or TA might do these chainrings.

Poor Ribble build. This error should be on every new build checklist. Essentially it is a regular crankset fitted to a bike with disk brake chainline. Some cranks allow the fitting of spacers on the drive side to move the crankset out a little. But just so much easier to build it with a disc brake s...

Sure someone has mentioned this before, but I am not one for using the search function or for getting up early at the weekend.

Well, the valve hole in this stuff is rather large. So large that I am expecting my tubes to puncture around the valves.

Thanks for any comments.

We don't know what you mean. It is only integrated headset that use split crown races. And crown races they are not - they are just collets. Most integrated headsets nowadays come with split collets, so you would be unlucky to get one that doesn't. Or by the term 'external cups' do you mean headsets...