What's in the Workstand ? ?

[Clean39T]

Originally Posted by jkbrwn

You’re a madman



Small victories, but I did the first ever wrap job that I’m mostly pleased with. I’m absolutely terrible at it.



Also fitted new steel fork to my Seven, as well as some wider, shorter reach bars.

Some say.

Fizike tape looks great. It's a dark art, wrapping bars.

Backstory on the steel fork? Love the choice, but who made it?

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[Peter B]

Picked this one up for my stepdaughter. Fabrication by FTW. Gave it a full teardown and overhaul, fresh crank bearings, new FD, cassette, chain, cables & housings, Fizik post (after photo) and King iris cages. Put on a NOS wheelset of Alchemy Elf/Orc hubs laced to Kinlin rims w/ CX-Ray. Came with the Stages crankset. We go for her first ride on it tomorrow.

[Pegoready]

Originally Posted by Clean39T

The answer is two.

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Or the hypothesis is - shall see after the first ride tomorrow.

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Yooooo. How the hell did you find 2 Sachs in your size in the same color in such a short period of time?

FWIW I like this one a bit more... simpler lugs, external top of top tube brake routing as the man intended, and the most updated House-designed graphics package. I wouldn't kick either of them out of bed though.

[Bici-Sonora]

Originally Posted by Clean39T

Two.

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Or that's the theory I'm testing - shall see after the first ride tomorrow....weather permitting..

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Whatever dark arts you practiced that produced a double Sachs Christmas, I approve. And, dibs on this second one with the house graphics.


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[Applesauce]

Originally Posted by jkbrwn

Small victories, but I did the first ever wrap job that I’m mostly pleased with. I’m absolutely terrible at it.

Also fitted my new steel fork to my Seven, as well as some wider, shorter reach bars.

Looks good! But the true test is in symmetricalness... The hard part about getting good at taping bars is getting enough practice. Few of us own enough bikes.

[Kingfisher]

Caad9 from eBay last week at a steal price. Chorus everything except super record crank. Waiting on a 31.8 front derailleur adaptor to begin build.

[Velocipede]

Not really in a work stand, but a bunch of Campy parts leaving this week. All for PLF members oddly.

[thirdgenbird]

I am expecting build threads from the ekar recipients

[Clean39T]

Originally Posted by Bici-Sonora

Whatever dark arts you practiced that produced a double Sachs Christmas, I approve. And, dibs on this second one with the house graphics.

Winter has a way.




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[cmbicycles]

Originally Posted by Clean39T

Two.

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Or that's the theory I'm testing - shall see after the first ride tomorrow....weather permitting..

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What's in Clean's workstand? Which workstand did you mean?

[ariw]

Cinelli king zydeco, try to set it up as backup road bike and gravel. Have 2 wheel sets, mostly potenza kit, but haven’t had any time to get started on the build.

[unterhausen]

I really like this paint color, unfortunately 93.5% of it is gone now in preparation for boss installation. It's going on the commuter. Yes, the garage is a mess, I'm cleaning, can't you tell?

[Bici-Sonora]

Originally Posted by cmbicycles

What's in Clean's workstand? Which workstand did you mean?

We should take wagers on, “What’s in Clean’s workstand(s)?” Two Richard Sachs would have had 99/1 odds. We’d just have to figure out away prevent insider trading.


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[jkbrwn]

Originally Posted by Clean39T

Some say.

Fizike tape looks great. It's a dark art, wrapping bars.

Backstory on the steel fork? Love the choice, but who made it?

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Did not mean to use that emoji, but anyway, yeah, Fizik tape is great. This is still the best one they make. The new ones are horrid IMO.

I had the fork made as I started to really not like the Enve 2.0. It was cool to begin with but the more I got to know the bike the more I started to not like it. The frame is really forgiving and smooth to ride but the fork was kinda dead. Stiff, yes and yes, it would dampen a big crak in the road, but it didn't really have any small bump compliance. I'd actually start to get annoyed by the front end ride quality on certain roads that I frequent. Also, I really bought into the 'why have a custom frame and an off the peg fork' mentality.

John Fitzgerald of Fitz Cycles made it. He used Cromor .9mm 28x19 oval blades. Really beautifully made actually. Properly impressed. My mechanic was very complimentary of it, even down to the steerer tube that John used. No proper photos of it yet, but I'm really happy with it. I'll take a slight weight penalty any day if it means better ride quality.

[Clean39T]

Originally Posted by jkbrwn

Did not mean to use that emoji, but anyway, yeah, Fizik tape is great. This is still the best one they make. The new ones are horrid IMO.

I had the fork made as I started to really not like the Enve 2.0. It was cool to begin with but the more I got to know the bike the more I started to not like it. The frame is really forgiving and smooth to ride but the fork was kinda dead. Stiff, yes and yes, it would dampen a big crak in the road, but it didn't really have any small bump compliance. I'd actually start to get annoyed by the front end ride quality on certain roads that I frequent. Also, I really bought into the 'why have a custom frame and an off the peg fork' mentality.

John Fitzgerald of Fitz Cycles made it. He used Cromor .9mm 28x19 oval blades. Really beautifully made actually. Properly impressed. My mechanic was very complimentary of it, even down to the steerer tube that John used. No proper photos of it yet, but I'm really happy with it. I'll take a slight weight penalty any day if it means better ride quality.

That's awesome. My experience with carbon and overbuilt steel forks is the same. Fitz is quickly moving up on my list of builders to consider for a rando project. Of course I dig what he did for Mrs. Cools and Henry W., but other ones I've seen have been great too. Mostly I just want the excuse to go down there and ride.

For the Fizik tape, I recently tried one that was similar thickness to what you have there, but more sticky. I really like it. Especially with winter gloves on.