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  1. ratz

    It's Mallet Season

    Yes, last sighted on a boat in the pacific; that is a prototype Hardy gifted me at Sebring from his personal stash of hand-made ones; if the real thing is 80% as nice it's going to be a must have.
  2. ratz

    It's Mallet Season

    Well this project has dragged on; been short handled at the office and busy, but some progress got made this weekend just not how I had envisioned it.... Would up adding the new floor covering to the shop, it cost me a day but, now when I drop that one and only-one screw of type - x at 11pm at...
  3. ratz

    QX100 Steering Mod

    That's looks really good. A bigger person could fit that by changing out the drops to be VentureMax ones; same shape but wider. I cut about an inch off the end of bars with that same shape to give the wrists a little more freedom of motion without hard interference.
  4. ratz

    Bessie's Creek 2017

    And here's the live race link https://www.quarqnet.com/track/NTE0/KzE5NTI2ODE5OTU1/8lt-27907e28d85fd7a9bbde
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    It's Mallet Season

    Getting close to done; shop migrated back to the garage with the arrival of warm weather. The olde Silvio got a face lift that will be getting some testing New Ritchey EvoMax Handlebars; disabled Shock, Reynolds 40mm wheels, and a Vendetta Medium Chain Stay. Test ride around the block and...
  6. ratz

    Little tweaks

    The will open up to things. First BB30 crank you can shorten (it comes in BB30 and GXP) First Crank you can shorten with a removable spider meaning you can install a spider based power meter.
  7. ratz

    Bessie's Creek 2017

    Yep only good for 24.... https://www.quarqnet.com/track/NTE0/KzE5NTI2ODE5OTU1/8l7-a826fcfbb6e94bc82534
  8. ratz

    Towing with a vendetta

    If you accelerate slowly and don't hard brake I never had a problem; but you can tell there is a elastametor in the equation; it's a definite at you own risk thing. I was say the same of the v20 the rear triangle is slender it was not designed for this; but it is still over engineered.
  9. ratz

    T50 - Everyone likes a bike you can kick start

    It's the tie the makes or brakes the sale of a business suit.
  10. ratz

    New Bike Blues

    Experiments with both anti flop and dampeners have been done; both work; challenge now is making an anti-flop that doesn't look like a hack; and a dampener that isn't ridiculously expensive. I can ask Jacob to chime in. If the get green lite they would like be add-on options since they drive up...
  11. ratz

    New Bike Blues

    You may have the handlebars too far back; if you have room between your legs and the bars try moving the handle bars forward 5mm at a time by shortening the boom length. As a compliment you can move the headrest out further so you sit further back and hence the arms get straighter and you have...
  12. ratz

    Chain WAXing (yes it's that easy) - and other mysteries of this art!

    Good point. The chain was noisy like when I was done; and it was heavy rain but not pouring; sounded like it normally does after 1000 miles
  13. ratz

    questions about power meters?

    New Rival is Forged Aluminum Old Rival OCT is hollow OCT = OPEN CORE TECHNOLOGY = Hollow. So I doubt very much they have shortened the old Rival OCT cranks, I've seen a pair that someone tried; ti was ugly. There have been 3 generations of the Rival; the OCT being the middle one. They might...
  14. ratz

    Thoughts on Microshift?

    Time for a pop culture intervention. Alan Tracy: So, do you still think that science can explain everything? Fermat: Not girls.
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    Towing with a vendetta

    Well I put race wheels on a burley and pulled it with a silvio; so a trailer with vendetta isn't so bad either.
  16. ratz

    Chain WAXing (yes it's that easy) - and other mysteries of this art!

    I've done 6 hours in the rain; had to rewax after I'd get this an put in your jersy pocket incase you need to do a quick relube... https://www.amazon.com/Squirt-Long-Lasting-Lube-bottle/dp/B00ANNR15G
  17. ratz

    T50 - Everyone likes a bike you can kick start

    When someone gets to that point; I can post links to buy those parts as I used them on my Quest v2 reclamation projects, works well if you want to chase that setup on the Q's. So they should work well on the T50
  18. ratz

    Bessie's Creek 2017

    Larry's on his way; he'll be live broadcasting race telemetry on Saturday. Here's the test link transmitting from his car to see if it works. https://www.quarqnet.com/track/NTE0/KzE5NTI2ODE5OTU1/8kh-1d1990bf86af40dfac02
  19. ratz

    New Bike Blues

    Welcome aboard JerSam. After only 90 miles and from the sounds of it not having worked on the slow speed stuff your situation sounds like a very familiar journey many of us had early on. The good news is you can learn from the rest of us and do it faster and easier. So out of the gate I will...
  20. ratz

    What did you do to your Cruzbike today?

    Use rubber grommets and it fits fine. One on each bolt will do it. $0.10 at the hardware store.
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