The velorution will not be motorised

[sacredchao]

I managed to bring a project out of hiatus today. I got the Super Eliott frame back from Abbotsford Cycles today, having had them fit a headset to it. They were very nice and fitted my bottom bracket while they were at it. I got it home and assembled as much of it as possible and that's enough to have been able to take it out for a spin. A genuinely nice thing. Nice and light for a steel framed bike, due to an utter lack of extraneous bits and pieces and very quiet and free spinning for the same reason. As I'd hoped, the reasonably nice hardware has given it a lovely smoothness and lack of rattle (once I'd adjusted a little play out of the headset) which is almost eerie when you've got a reasonable cadence up. I didn't go too far on it as I'm expecting a call to go pick up doushkasmum and I need a longer nut to fit the brake caliper so the test ride was brakeless. I'm ok with riding a fixie brakeless in the back streets of Reservoir, but I wouldn't be hitting arterial roads that way. Initial pics here.

Comments

[montjoye.livejournal.com]

looks very neat and bright, congrats. Is it single gear which will coast or (can't remember the term) fixed gear? If the former I'd love to talk you into letting me have a try, when it has brakes. My legs must be a reasonably similar length to yours.

[sacred-chao.livejournal.com]

It's fixed, so it doesn't coast. Having said that, if you're not clipped in (which you wouldn't be) it's really not substantially different. It just means that if you don't pedal the bike, the bike pedals you.

[doushkasmum.livejournal.com]

It is a fixed gear, you probably don't want to try it. 8->

[montjoye.livejournal.com]

yeh, agree. I am interested in trying a single gear bike that does coast though.

[mr-bassman.livejournal.com]

There are single speed bike hubs that one can get that also coast.

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the lockring! ;)

[sacred-chao.livejournal.com]

This one has a proper track hub and thus gets a matching proper left-hand thread lockring, as distinct from the last one which was just a regular old hub with the cluster removed. Mind you, I never unwound the cog on it, only you managed that, despite being lighter than me by a margin I'd rather not think about.