Recent content by edh

I think your speedo should be in mph, that would make the X 1.6 for km work, I like the bolt together idea, do the stays bolted to the old cranks have any play or did you put spacers in?

Yes, I was referring to my tourer that has 700c x 25 mm tyres. The back tyre on the rat is easy to get off but the 16" front tyre is somewhat more difficult.

Are there any clearer photos of this, I am struggling to understand the mechanics of how it works

I have to say that for skinny wheels and tyres I like the levers with the hook to go round a spoke, it means that you can use 2 more levers to get the tyre started when removing.

After that I gave her my old cheappy mountain bike with an equally rubbish paint job and she could leave it anywhere and no one would touch it.

Photos are bit of a pain to upload but my current rat is matte black but it used to be a rubbish camo, this stemmed from my days of riding in London, a rubbish paint job will disguise an otherwise nice bike, my wife and I both had our bikes chained up outside our flat when we heard a chain...

Was going to suggest a set of plastic tyre levers too.

This is a question more than a solution, could the crank arms be cut, drilled and threaded or have a section cut out in the middle and welded back together (to retain the current threaded holes for pedal attachment)?

I would suggest bontrager race lite hardcase, when I lived in London I ran these on my dawes galaxy tour and just cycled straight through any broken glass etc, due to swerving being risky. Once every few weeks I would just flip my bike and pick all of the glass out with a small screwdriver, as...

As has been said you will be able to do it yourself pretty easily, the seat, pedals and bars are just bolt ons, with regards to the cables you could get your local bike shop to supply and fit them and give the bike a tune up at the same time, though with a decent manual or online resources you...

I considered mounting a bracket for a 12 volt 7 ah battery (like in a security system) they are rechargeable and in theory you could wire up a car stereo to it if you really wanted, obviously you could put several in parallel for more power. I also thought a tank could be good for this as it...

I found a cheap fake barbie which will become my other valve cap, I still haven't decided on a figurehead yet, I will know when I find it.

I found a cheap fake barbie which will become my other valve cap, I still haven't decided on a figurehead yet, I will know when I find it.

Yes, I do FIFO, I have put a bit of thought into how to get the bike home at the end of the contract it was just going to be a bit of a fun camp bike but I am getting quite attached to it.

No worries, I hope I didn't sound too abrupt, I have put a backwards slope on the current saddle which helps as the back of the seat doesn't stick up into my bum but I still overhang it. I have made up 2 support bars out of DIN rail, I 2 as looking round at what we have laying about and it...