the mountain - building a new bicycle

Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	building a new bicycle Feb 13^th, 2012 at 2:08am	Print Post
	Here in the picture you see every single darn piece you need to assemble a bike. I will have the wheels built for me, and the rest I'll do myself. I'm locking this so I can have sequential updates of the build progress, then I'll unlock it.
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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #1 - Mar 9^th, 2012 at 1:55am	Print Post
	Here is the frame I'm going to use. Sorry about poor pic. I'll make sure to have a decent one when it's finished. A couple of cool things about this frame. It is a 1991 specialized stumpjumper S-works. It was also NEVER BUILT! So essentially I got a '91 frame in mint condition. How awesome is that? Cool thing number two. I purchased it from Eschen, Liechtenstein. This is a very small country (62 square miles) located in Europe. It is bordered by switzerland and austria, and it is ruled by a prince. So maybe I'll call the bike Princess�

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #2 - Mar 9^th, 2012 at 1:59am	Print Post
	Headset/fork done. The cups and race were already on (luckily, since I don't have the tool to put them on), and the headset was brand new, so I just greased it up and put it on. Minor drawback, I need to put on a front brake cable hanger on the steerer tube, but the steerer tube is cut pretty short, I'm going to have to find a cable hanger that is only 2mm thick. I haven't seen one on the net. They don't make 1inch headset tubes anymore, I have to find old stock.
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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #3 - Mar 9^th, 2012 at 2:01am	Print Post
	Bottom bracket done. Went on beautifully. So easy. My first one. I think externally threaded bbs must be easier. Or probably it was the fact it was sealed and I didn't have to mess with bearings.

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #4 - Mar 12^th, 2012 at 10:10pm	Print Post
	The top steerer tube is cut pretty short, leaving me very little space to add a front cable hanger. I needed one where the ring is only 2mm thick. Couldn't find one online, so I put together some parts lying around and took them to the local bicycle commuters yard, and donated my parts so I could scrounge through their parts. I managed to find one off a 10-speed.

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #5 - Mar 12^th, 2012 at 10:13pm	Print Post
	Stem and handle bar on, also the front cable hanger, now painted black. Handlebar was cut to a length of 20 inches.

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #6 - Mar 12^th, 2012 at 10:15pm	Print Post
	Wheels.

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #7 - Mar 12^th, 2012 at 10:18pm	Print Post
	Brake cantilevers on. For those with a fine eye, yes I have my brake shoes reversed. This, plus "toeing" them in towards the front, gives me superior and quieter stopping power, IMO.

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #8 - Mar 12^th, 2012 at 10:20pm	Print Post
	Brake levers and shifters on.

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #9 - Mar 12^th, 2012 at 10:23pm	Print Post
	Cable housing and wiring all done for brakes.

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	cranks Reply #10 - Apr 1^st, 2012 at 6:31pm	Print Post
	Cranks, before and after

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spacer spacing for 7 speed shifter and 8 speed cassette
Reply #11 - Apr 1^st, 2012 at 6:52pm

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Some cassettes come apart easily with an allen key. Others you need to punch the rivets out. And still others, like mine, need the old grinder!

So I took mine apart with a grinder and I wrecked the largest sprocket in the process. That's ok, I just went to bike store to buy a spare.

Why take it apart? My shifters are these '90-'95 shimano 7speed index thumbshifters. Though 7speed, they came with a magical 8th shifting slot. So hypothetically you should be able to use an 8 speed cassette right? Unfortunately the 7 speed indexing does not give you smooth shifting with an 8 speed cassette. Solution (sort of), take apart the cassette and put wider spacers in-between the sprockets.

But I have another limitation, my rear hub is for a 7/8 speed cassette, meaning there is not much wiggle room when making the cassette wider. Here's the sprocket/spacer combination I used to get smooth shifting.

sprocket	30 T (tooth)
spacer	3 mm
sprocket	26 T
spacer	3.28 mm
sprocket	23 T
spacer	3.5? mm (estimated)
sprocket	20 T
spacer	3.5? mm (estimated)
sprocket	17 T
spacer	3 mm
sprocket	15 T
spacer	3 mm
sprocket	13 T
sprocket	11 T (with attached spacer)

The two estimated ones did not have a number stamped on them, but visually I could see they were wider. I got these by again going to the bicycle commuter store and rummaging though old cassettes. I walked away with 6 hard-to-find spacers for $2, can't beat that

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #12 - Apr 1^st, 2012 at 6:55pm	Print Post
	Rear derailleur and chain.

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #13 - Apr 1^st, 2012 at 6:57pm	Print Post
	Front derailleur.

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Bar ends and grips Reply #14 - Apr 1^st, 2012 at 6:58pm	Print Post
	Bar ends and grips.

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Seatpost Reply #15 - Apr 1^st, 2012 at 6:59pm	Print Post
	Seatpost.

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Seat and bottle cage Reply #16 - Apr 1^st, 2012 at 7:02pm	Print Post
	Seat and bottle cage. Wow, done! Time for some showroom pics.

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	presenting princess Reply #17 - Apr 1^st, 2012 at 7:15pm	Print Post
	introducing princess. Click on pics for larger image. Thread now open for posts. princess and deirdre
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Hermskii Senior Member privatehook Offline Posts: 478 Location: Houston Joined: Feb 1^st, 2011 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #18 - Apr 1^st, 2012 at 9:52pm	Print Post
	That chain looks special. does is even need lube?

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Helen YaBB Administrator Offline hello Posts: 1595 Location: earth Joined: Nov 8^th, 2005 Gender:	Re: building a new bicycle Reply #19 - Apr 1^st, 2012 at 10:28pm	Print Post
	lol it's just brand new. It does come with a slight lubrication coating. But I'll oil it it up before the first ride.

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