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blasdelf wrote:
Bo Ttorff wrote:
Cross style levers preferred
I'll be using my cinelli/mash bars
you'll be a dad bro, graduate from your sweet fixie residuals
get some flat/riser/swept/etc bars that take mountain grips so you can use real brakes, I've got plenty of fancy ones you can try out
these hydros are cheaper than any of the mechanical options you're looking at and work fantastically better: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Shimano-BL-M445-BR-M445-White-f'n mtb-Bike-Hydraulic-Disc-Brakeset-750-1200-NEW-/331473597723
they're trivial to work on, and pretty much never need it unlike mechanicals
(you can shorten the hoses in a few minutes without bleeding them or even special tools!)
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
Tax return got my wheel built yesterday and I'll be ordering a light, Can we target the first week of April or so for a wiring party?
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derrickito
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:31 pm
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It turns out that if youre slightly smarter than a rock, you can hook up a dynamo light in a few easy moments. I finally got around to finding all my pieces and putting it on.
I had thought I was missing a few key things, but nope.
now i want to hooksie up a tail light as well. anyone got an extra one of those laying around that they aren't using that they want to sell? before i hit the interwebs.
Andrew_Squirrel
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 1:27 pm
Joined: 01 Mar 2010Posts: 2098Location: Greenwood
Yeah, I have a brand new, never mounted B&M Seculite Plus if you want it.
Looks like I paid $30 new. Give it to you for $10 or a yummy six pack of non-IPA beers.
Only catch is that it's a fender-mounted light so if you want to mount it to your seatpost, rack or seatstay braze-on you might need to fudge a DIY bracket.
What headlight? I want to make sure I have the correct sized crimp terminals.
i'm assuming the tail lights connect onto those connectors? is there a connector to crimp it on similar to down on the hub?
langston
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 1:51 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
derrickito wrote:
It turns out that if youre slightly smarter than a rock, you can hook up a dynamo light in a few easy moments. I finally got around to finding all my pieces and putting it on.
yup. Finally got all my parts together and was able to wire it up pretty easilly...it only took one trip to Back Alley to learn that I had misread the wiring diagram and didn't have enough copper exposed in the connector to make the circuit complete. Nice and shiny now, generator light master-race unite!
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Andrew_Squirrel
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:02 pm
Joined: 01 Mar 2010Posts: 2098Location: Greenwood
Unfortunately B&M & Schmidt are still in the dark ages with their crimp terminals. I wish everything was as easy as the Shimano/Shutter Precision style hub connectors. Stripping wire and shoving it inside something with pressure retention is so much easier to work with.
If you want, we can crimp the terminals to the wire at my house when you pick it up.
derrickito
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:25 pm
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crimping connectors is easy enough. yeah if you have some around and we can do it real quick that would be great.
next week sometime after work? i will be riding tonight too if you're out
thanks!
jimmythefly
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:52 pm
Joined: 10 Jan 2007Posts: 1491
The hole spacing on reflector brackets matches up with what you want for your dynamo taillight. So if you don't want to fender mount it, there are multiple ways you can adapt a cheapie bracket and mount it elsewhere.
My favorite is to the brake bridge tucked up out of harms way 9unless you use a massive saddlebag). Also would be easy to just use half that bracket and attach to one of the nearby rack braze-ons.
Andrew_Squirrel
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 3:06 pm
Joined: 01 Mar 2010Posts: 2098Location: Greenwood
derrickito wrote:
crimping connectors is easy enough. yeah if you have some around and we can do it real quick that would be great.
next week sometime after work? i will be riding tonight too if you're out
thanks!
Yeah, next week works fine. With my clavicle injury I've been spending lots of time at home, usually after 7pm.
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jeff
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 3:20 pm
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Andrew_Squirrel wrote:
derrickito wrote:
crimping connectors is easy enough. yeah if you have some around and we can do it real quick that would be great.
next week sometime after work? i will be riding tonight too if you're out
thanks!
Yeah, next week works fine. With my clavicle injury I've been spending lots of time at home, usually after 7pm.
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Andrew_Squirrel
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 3:25 pm
Joined: 01 Mar 2010Posts: 2098Location: Greenwood
jeff wrote:
Andrew_Squirrel wrote:
derrickito wrote:
crimping connectors is easy enough. yeah if you have some around and we can do it real quick that would be great.
next week sometime after work? i will be riding tonight too if you're out
thanks!
Yeah, next week works fine. With my clavicle injury I've been spending lots of time at home, usually after 7pm.
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ba3bous
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 1:01 am
Joined: 24 Aug 2014Posts: 292Location: NYC
jimmythefly wrote:
The hole spacing on reflector brackets matches up with what you want for your dynamo taillight. So if you don't want to fender mount it, there are multiple ways you can adapt a cheapie bracket and mount it elsewhere.
My favorite is to the brake bridge tucked up out of harms way 9unless you use a massive saddlebag). Also would be easy to just use half that bracket and attach to one of the nearby rack braze-ons.
What are you using to hold the front light to that rack? I own a similar light and the same rack and everything I've used to hold it to there so far has sheared in half at some point. The shitty piece of aluminium that came with the rack didn't even last the ride from Capitol Hill to Eastlake and a bracket froma hardware store lasted me a couple of months so far.
jimmythefly
Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 4:27 pm
Joined: 10 Jan 2007Posts: 1491
CatEye B-25. I sold that bike but should have kept that bracket, haven't seen another since.
It's metal, and originally meant to hold the rear reflector to the brake bridge, with the curved bit of the bracket reaching around the brake cable.
ba3bous
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 10:55 pm
Joined: 24 Aug 2014Posts: 292Location: NYC
jimmythefly wrote:
CatEye B-25. I sold that bike but should have kept that bracket, haven't seen another since.
It's metal, and originally meant to hold the rear reflector to the brake bridge, with the curved bit of the bracket reaching around the brake cable.
Based on that, I started looking through the used reflector bins and found something similar:
Jessica
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 10:43 am
Joined: 18 Sep 2007Posts: 309Location: Capitol Hill
It's fancy coaxial wire made for lavalier microphone leads, I convinced Rob Perks to buy a 100m spool so it was easier to get in short lengths, and now he's on his second spool of it
Need wire and Ocean Air is sold out. Does anyone have another source thats not $12 from RivBike?
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joeball
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 11:07 am
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 6037Location: Ether
I have a spool of speaker wire. Not as flexible as the OAC stuff but it would work in the interim.
Kale
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 3:27 pm
Joined: 27 Jun 2014Posts: 203Location: Green Lake
I bought my wire from Counterbalance, they keep it all stocked.
Jessica
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 8:27 am
Joined: 18 Sep 2007Posts: 309Location: Capitol Hill
Thanks guys! I'll go visit Counterbalance for some #supplewires
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Alex
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:48 am
Joined: 18 May 2006Posts: 3128Location: Roosevelt
I bought 100' of the wire from Ocean Air Cycles and will be around today if you want to come by for some.
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