I've been waiting for a colleague to do some work, without which I'm stuck. So, in-between chasing and offering help I did some bits;
The Holdsworth Roi de Velo
finally got the crankset upgrade. It's had a new Miche something-wierd-but-specific bottom bracket plus a Miche Pistard Air 2.0 aero crankset, together with a change of stem to a lower-angled Fizik R1.
From this:
To this, although I've still got the wheels above:
(note: the wierd things around the tyres are
Wheel Wellies, which stop them getting dirty and/or wet in-between track sessions. Otherwise the commissaires get all shouty)
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I followed this up with a quick look at the free bike I picked up at lunch-time. It's an early 1970's DBS Winner from Norway - all I've checked at this stage is whether the seatpost moves (yes), the gears move (they
now do after some persuasion and lubricant) and the tyres hold air (yes, but are very cracked).
It's sat for ages but otherwise seems OK but in need of
lots of work. That'll come later with a thread in the Vintage section ...
Finally I looked at the Thompson Capella framset which arrived yesterday. It needs a little bit of paint but, as the paint place I use was shut, I cleaned up what I could and put it together.
First impressions are that it
should fit and the stem has been cut
very low. A thin stem works but that's all. Headset cleaned, re-greased and fitted. Forks in. Test stem on with bars on plus seatpost in and a temporary saddle plus test wheels.
Lots of build-work to be done; groupset, cabling, etc. but it looks to fit me. Which was the
key thing today (again a blurry photo):
