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  1. Doug Burton

    Relaxing more and more

    Well, Yes, I have some experience... Firstly, I built my first kit bike in 2005. Pretty much ignored everything John T. told me and made a bike that had an exagerated learning curve. Thankfully, not following instructions caused me to do things that made me understand this bike on a pretty deep...
  2. Doug Burton

    Relaxing more and more

    Hi Mark, You may now be seeing the climbing capability we've been talking about for some time, the stuff that seems to aggravate folks on other forums as "claims". Note that when you're using bar-ends, you maximize the ratio of the lever arm presented by your arms and the handlebars vs. the...
  3. Doug Burton

    Many Faces of the Red Bike

    Here's a few of my 700c kit bike... Original - too tall with steel kit and triple crank... It rode great if you didn't have to balance it at a stop... With tweeners, that look better than they work... And compared with Silvio geomerty, which made me re-engineer the whole thing...
  4. Doug Burton

    Silly question / suggestion

    The QR installs from the right side just fine. That way you can leave it part the way in to retain the derailleur hanger. and it looks very nice because of the way it lines up nicely with the dropout.
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