Today I have mostly been building Inbreds...

Iain C

Mrs has made the jump to FS, so seemed only right and proper that I should rip her girlie RockShopper apart and build myself some proper British snot-green slot-dropout real steel £99 frame goodliness.

Behold the biggest greenest like-a-bike ever, hopefully those nice people at Merlin can send me one of those SLX chainset thingies so I can actualy pedal this round a bit.

Yummy yummy.

jay12

looks great in green. i have that rear mech too. it's very good

itboffin

Almost finished my own inbred migration project, still need to trim the cabling to the right length, problem is I haven't a clue how long / short the cables should be, when your finished would you mind posting some more shots?

Thanks, nice bike by the way.

Iain C

itboffin, do you mean cables or hoses?

itboffin

Iain C wrote:

itboffin, do you mean cables or hoses?

Gear cables, i'm not doing the hydro hoses it's just too messy that's one job i'll let the LBS handle.

Iain C

OK well as you can see mine does not have any yet! But I'll give you the measurments when I've done them...just make sure you have some good cable cutters. Mine's an 18" frame too, so bear that in mind!

itboffin

Iain C wrote:

OK well as you can see mine does not have any yet! But I'll give you the measurments when I've done them...just make sure you have some good cable cutters. Mine's an 18" frame too, so bear that in mind!

Ta mines 18" too

spongtastic

Chain Tug!

Do it or regret it.

Iain C

spongtastic wrote:

Chain Tug!

Do it or regret it.

Why? On-one say you don't need it for a geared build. Wheel is dead centred (in terms of tyre clearance on the cahinstays) with the axle right at the front of the slots, and any pedal yomping in a big gear is only going to keep the axle at the front of the slots anyway.

Am I missing something here?

tptvmbircn

So different but how it works well in green, very interested in the final version

ride_whenever

somepoint soon i'm going to have a two inbred in one day build.... moving my 456 bits onto a carbon one, and other bits onto the current frame...

But that green is lush, hope they do the carbon one in that...

Iain C

It's finished (apart from fork boots and frame protectors)!

Fecking irritating, I've done my back in so I only did a couple of hundred yards around the road outside the house but it seems great. You know that feeling when you get on a bike and everything feels perfect in terms of fit, geometry, setup etc? Also get a nice smug feeling from building it and knowing it's unique!

SLX kit is really nice, and really well priced. Bring on the riding!

spongtastic

Chaintugs also help to stop the rear wheel doing strange things under braking. Strange that on-one said you didn't need one when they spec it with all their slot frame builds.

Iain C

OK, still don't get it spongtastic.

All the chaintug can do is pull the axle backwards, towards the back of the slot dropout, for example when tightening a s/s chain. If you try and push the axle forward, for example yomping uphill on a SS, it won't let it move. However if you pull the axle backwards, for example due to a force being applied to the rear wheel such as hitting a tree root with your skewer undone, there's nothing the chaintug can do to keep the wheel from moving backwards in the dropout, as it's not deigned to work in that plane.

As my axle is right at the front of the dropout, as far forward as it can go, this is in effect stopping the axle moving any further forward in it's own right. So what good will a chaintug do? If anything, it's just adding more things that can move and stopping the skewer getting a good "bite" on the dropouts.

Surely?