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Upside down head lights are not the do do here
the M6 stainless bolt fastens the bolt to the threaded stainless rack mount and a lock nut is on the back of all. So there is no way it can work loose and fall down. You can lock it up so you need a hammer, or you can adjust and lock the nut so one can still move the light by hand. I did tests to check the beam was not obscured by the wheel when designing the racks.
The light wires run inside the racks and also earthed (green wire) to the rack/brake boss and also earthed at the tail light to ensure there is never a bad earth and flicker.
The tail light wire runs inside the rack to the other side then to the frame entry point on the DT head lug. All is connected with spade connections with soldered wires then heat shrink, so all is demountable with ease. The feed wire passes into the fork via a reinforcement plate (those builders who do not do this on fork blades are heading for customer grief) into an annealed brass tube to the dropout.
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I am bored with a straight tube, yeah, cheap and faster, but..................
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How many times do you see the routing and resultant loop doing an S bend, because they never gave it some thought
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This thread just keeps delivering. Thanks, Dazza!
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The bag attachments. For years I have been seeing Randos with decalleurs and straps and all sorts of stuff that just looks and works totally out of place with a modern bike in the second decade of the 21st Century. I do not build nostalgic reproductions of bikes from many decades ago, however I will take the gems from the past and incorporate them into a contemporary machine. Bag attachments, as I said, 99.9% of them are good grief. You have got to be kidding. Harsh, but I tell it as from my POV.I think that using straps and buckles in the 21st century to hold handle bar and rear bags to racks is frankly dismal. I wanted a secure, no movement, rattle free attachment method that was easy to use and removal or attachment takes just a few seconds. After many months of thought, I come to what I consider my clever and proud solution on the rack project. It is done by the use of twist over lock titanium motorcycle race fairing clips. A simple 90 degree twist of the three clips and the bag is released. Functional, simple, clean, light and elegant.
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OK, now every builder will be marketing this as their great discovery, then Ve-- O-an-e will be flogging it off as well on some cheap import.
and ................... but that is the way of things.
The front bag I selected is the Gilles Berthoud French handmade GB 2086. It is an attractive and well made leather and canvas bag that are well known around the world of Randonneuring. I have added a little hook to the front rack that the bags top hold down tie is easily hooked on and off to when one wants to get access to the bag. The Campy levers operate unhindered by this bags width as well. Down tube shifters are quaint but STI and Ergo have been here for 25 years.
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The rear rack is also custom made with stainless steel tubing to fit the clients bicycle. Special jigs and fixtures ensure the rack is close fitting level and centres the bag directly over the rear wheel. Three twist over lock fairing clips once again hold the Gilles Berthoud GB 999 rear bag. Carry a pair of shoes, change of clothes or food or whatever you desire in the bag. There is also an additional M5 stainless steel mudguard mount to give additional rigidity to the rear mudguard.
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The Llewellyn Voyageur Bicycle was a bringing together of all the details of what I saw was good and leaving out things I think are bad. Tail Lights mounted on seat tubes look quaint and French chic, but to my senses they are a very bad thing, because the light is obscured by the seat stays at angles, a motorist may not see the light (and you) very well on a rainy evening on a curve. Lights are to be seen as 100% as much as possible by motorists at all angles, low flying aircraft and possums. (we have cute possums here).
They are to keep you alive.
Plus why have a gen front light and battery rear ? OK, if you want full but limited time max light horse power then Dinotte is the go
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Superb details dazza.
Beautiful work.
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Blending the best of traditional frame construction and design with the best of contemporary design and materials is the direction of my work and art.
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Any questions?
all will be referred to the boss, she is very picky
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Cobby has a story on Veloaficionado
I knew Cobby 30 years ago when he would blow me off his wheel in the final at races like the Musselwell to Tambrook. He rode off Scratch in the interstate classics, I rode off Chopping block in NSW.
then we crossed paths in recent years when he moved to Brisbane.
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Is that a new Di2 specific "limpet" on the chainstay, Dazza?
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Not yet
I have fabricated a few of these from 28.6mm round stainless bar for Di2 bkes, a lot of work but I want to sort out the details, try them out before I do a casting soon.
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Christine's Di2 Llewellyn
Christine's little Manorina frame set is back from Joey, he is painting again after his Christmas day run over by a horseless carriage broken collar bone mishap.
Waiting on the cranks to arrive (165mm) before assembly is started.
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Stainless steel polished drops
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Blended the two Manorina head lugs together
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Custom machines stem spacer, painted
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Quick happy snap this arvo
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I like colours
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Matt's Cadenzia is ready
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Lugged stems for lugged bikes, for over ten years now
As I made my current client's handle bar stem I was contemplating the passing years. It is now over ten years from when I kicked off making lugged stems for my frame sets.
the spiel is,
for many of my early frames, I fillet brazed stems. And, even though my fillet brazed stems were very popular addition to my lugged frame sets, I felt that they did not fully match the aesthetic of my lugged frames. A lugged frame should have a lugged stem!
So I made sketches. I needed the option of 1 1/8 fork or 1 fork with a sleeve, and I needed to fit the industry standard of 31.8mm handlebar. Once I sorted all that out in my sketches, I drafted up a set of detailed dimensioned drawings from which I hand-fabricated samples for my first production lugs.
I sent my hand-fabricated samples to LongShen (Taiwan) who interpreted my samples into 3D CAD drawings for their tool maker. LongShen sent the samples they made of their interpretation, and after a few modifications the lugs went into the production in 2004.
The stem lug features are
Fits 31.8 handle bar
Fits 25.4 (1 with sleeve) or 28.6 (1 1/8) steerer tube.
The stem extension tube is at 84 degrees to the fork steerer axis
Easy mitring of the 28.6 diameter extension tube and easy perpendicular alignment of the handlebar axis to fork steerer axis.
Stainless steel lugs to avoid possible corrosion with the handle bar or fork.
Dependable lugged construction which also compliments the aesthetic of a lugged frame.
Room on the stem lugs surface and shore line to allow one to shape to compliment the frames lug shape.
I also had Columbus make the 28.60mm extension tube in Niobium material to complete the stem kit and have made this available to other builders.
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What is he making in there
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Well, the striker is not polished! Have you been in a rush?? :cheesy:
(just joking, great work as always)
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Gattonero
Well, the striker is not polished! Have you been in a rush?? :cheesy:
(just joking, great work as always)
I actually gave that some serious thought
the cap head they supply appears to be galvanised, which to my thoughts is a strange option, so I thought a stainless cap head would nice, but getting it off the spring was fraught with peril, so I let it go through to the keeper.
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Dazza,
Curious about yr thoughts on discs.The touring bike has cantis.
Have you done some discs or opposed for some reason.
S
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Dazza,
Curious about yr thoughts on discs.The touring bike has cantis.
Have you done some discs or opposed for some reason.
S
Steve, if we are referring to the blue 'Voyageur' bike, this bike is not a touring bike for panniers, it is directed as a Randonneur. Light loads for comfy riding to work, weekend long overnight hotel/pub trips, a small shopping trip or a spin around your local roads.
Discs require a strong and rigid fork and that is also extra weight. The Rando bike does not really need the braking horse power of discs with the resultant sacrifice of ride comfort with the rigid disc fork. Unless you up the tyre size with lower pressure or have shock forks then most road riding is fine with good rim brakes.
I will do discs, but so far no one has decided to sacrifice the ride comfort for the rigidity of the disc brake fork.
Riding in dirt, mud, slush, different story.
Now some builders have skimped on disc forks and it has ended in tears for them. Failures and twisting forks .............
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Dazza - These little fittings you fabricate really impress me as I know how difficult it is to deal with machining fiddly bits. How does the complexity and required tolerance for these types of bicycle items compare to the model train work you do?
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They are not model trains but full sized steam engines.
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They are not model trains but full sized steam engines.
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Dazza - These little fittings you fabricate really impress me as I know how difficult it is to deal with machining fiddly bits. How does the complexity and required tolerance for these types of bicycle items compare to the model train work you do?
It all can be fiddly.
The tolerances are much tighter for model engineering and the complexity can be huge. The chaps that make clocks, jet engines and working piston engines for example, but I am not where near that advanced because, well, yet again my model engineering has stalled, not progressing
due to my ever increasing involvement with a small heritage steam railway which a group of us are working to turn it's fortunes around.(Rosewood Railway)
I am chairperson of the management committee and I get involved with many tasks, changing sleepers (Railroad Ties), maintenance on the steam loco :love: and marketing and on occasions I get to crew the steam loco. :laugh:
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However I am in the process of finally setting up the workshop extension which is not for bikes, but only for my model engineering which is yet to be sated.
Three weeks have passed and I have not yet leveled my Myford 254.
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Ginger got me a red kettle for cups of tea :bigsmile:
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My loco is still partly disassembled and nothing has progressed for a long time
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I have spent over a 1000 hours on the 3D cad drawings for the next one, which will be 150 times more complicated and involved, QR C17 Class #253 as it was delivered in 1920 which is the same class as the full size one I play with which was built in 1922.
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clicked on the thread with questions, as it has been a few days, but now find myself speechless.
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clicked on the thread with questions, as it has been a few days, but now find myself speechless.
a cup of Brownian motion producer
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then the questions will come back to you
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a cup of Brownian motion producer
then the questions will come back to you
That sounds improbable.
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That sounds improbable.
Small amounts of finite improbability can be generated simply by hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) is of course well understood and such generators are often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance to the theory of indeterminacy.
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He keeps making stuff down there
Making stem spacers, every time. Takes a bit of effort, however it pleases me and most importantly, the Punters love em.
The beauty of a lathe. Make stuff. Keep on making stuff.
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. Douglas Adams
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mr. Darrell I'm surprised you haven't done a cable-hanger for the forks, to match your bikes
black bars, mh
carbon compression cap, mh...
black square-ish cable hanger, hold on.
The whole bike is exquisite, has no need of those spots :noworry:
(personal opinion, like said, your works are fantastic)
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mr. Darrell I'm surprised you haven't done a cable-hanger for the forks, to match your bikes
Yeah, you are right, I should have done it by now. A while back in time, while listening to Radio National I had at times done some sketches of ideas
but nothing formed that would stick. Too much other stuff going on for my cranium to cope with. A big queue of frames to knock over, house rebuild, railways, new man cave, camping...............
but I will give it some thought again this week, yeah I will give it some Thought.
“Forty-two,” said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
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Yup, I believe is not a 5 minutes job. That thing gets the cable housing to cantilever onto the hanger. And if is not well done, can give brake judder, although that doesn't happen often on steel forks.
Back in the Day, Cinelli used to make an Mtb stem with the cable passing-trough the stem's extension. It was cool, but like all those designs that keep the brake cable end on the stem, any stem adjustment results in brake adjustment. Also, the judder mentioned before could be amplified.
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Ahh Sorry Tristan. You were correct.
I saw dazzas new workshop a couple months back. Very nice space and I drool everytime I think about it.
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Ahh Sorry Tristan. You were correct.
I saw dazzas new workshop a couple months back. Very nice space and I drool everytime I think about it.
When you are down here again, we can spend a lazy arvo, sipping some red while chatting
I just need to find a lazy arvo, that is the difficult bit
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I have lots of lazy arvos coming up. House almost done and still no work. Plenty of time to file and sand and flux and heat and file and sand some more.
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Website and email is down
Esolutions is having a melt down, they have emergency maintenance now messages.
email forwarding has been an ongoing problem for 6 months which was fixed but fails time and time again
My website is down yet again
If any one had been trying to contact me using
darrell@llewellynbikes.com
don't
Please use
llewellynbikes@powerup.com.au
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These are the posts I look for when I lurk in this part of this forum. Thanks for coming back!
My name is James Edward Kile
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email forwarding has been an ongoing problem for 6 months which was fixed but fails time and time again
My website is down yet again
You can't afford that carry-on.
This is the lathe of email: A beautiful thing https://www.google.com/work/apps/business/
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Matt from Perth (Western Australia) has a big smile with his newly arrived bike
so he put his "Gran Tourismo" up on his own Flickr site.
Thanks Matt.
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Digging through a box of stuff and I find some pictures that bring back a scene from 1995 , the year after I stopped racing and stepped into the Aussie national team mechanic.
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Robbie just won a stage of the 1995 Tour de L'Avenir again (won a stage in 1994), the team has left for various directions and I had to return the team car to Paris and Robbie got a lift to Paris with me and he caught a train to the land of Edam cheese to meet Jan Raas and sign his first pro contract. I am on the right, leaner and younger. The other chap is Samuel, he was assisting the Aussie team. I actually lived with Samuel's family in France for two seasons when I raced in France 1993 -1994.
Robbie was fast, he had talent and he knew his career pathway, and also easy to work with, he had respect for team mechanics and staff.