Your latest bike project?

[eminva]

Nice! He is one lucky kid.

Though if you find yourself searching the interwebs for miniature clipless pedals, you might ask yourself if you’re going overboard.

Liz

[hozn]

@eminva 139923 wrote:

Nice! He is one lucky kid.

Though if you find yourself searching the interwebs for miniature clipless pedals, you might ask yourself if you’re going overboard.

Liz

Yes! I am certainly going overbroad as it is, but I am stopping shy of clipless pedals! (I don’t think there are clipless shoes that would fit him yet anyway.)

[Vicegrip]

@eminva 139923 wrote:

Nice! He is one lucky kid.

Though if you find yourself searching the interwebs for miniature clipless pedals, you might ask yourself if you’re going overboard.

Liz

While teaching my kids welding basics I discovered no one made kid size welding safety equipment. Go figure…….

[ShawnoftheDread]

So you think a pair of SPDs is crazier than hacking off brake bosses and installing a disc brake adapter that requires drilling into the frame?

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[dkel]

@ShawnoftheDread 139963 wrote:

So you think a pair of SPDs is crazier than hacking off brake bosses and installing a disc brake adapter that requires drilling into the frame?

Hey, man, every gram counts.

[peterw_diy]

@eminva 139923 wrote:

Though if you find yourself searching the interwebs for miniature clipless pedals, you might ask yourself if you’re going overboard.

You jest but apparently many tandem teams like clipless pedals for keeping kids’ feet in place (see http://www.precisiontandems.com/art16moolddiary.htm). We still have simple platforms on our tandem but one of the first protocols we had to develop was communicating when a kid foot comes off and coordinating getting back on the pedal.

[Vicegrip]

Hozn. Email sent. Looks like many ways to fine tune to the bike. Simplest one that works is often the best too.

Thread derail continued. I found that a tandem is a great way to teach clipping in and out. The Capt. mounts and holds the bike while the stoker loads up. This gives the stoker time to foot fumble around and get used to clipping in. On dismount the stoker dismounts while the Capt. holds the bike steady so no “forgot to unclip” flops. My stoker was always slipping her feet off the pedals before we switched to some eggbeaters.

[hozn]

@ShawnoftheDread 139963 wrote:

So you think a pair of SPDs is crazier than hacking off brake bosses and installing a disc brake adapter that requires drilling into the frame?

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To be fair, the adapter doesn’t require drilling into the frame (most people don’t), but I might mount it that way as a simple way to increase functionality. I am gonna visit Vicegrip to formulate a plan.

Hacking off the brake bosses is purely aesthetic; they really don’t weigh much. (It is being repainted anyway.) And I am committed to 24″ Stans Crest rims, which have no brake surface. (So if the adapter ends up being a bad idea, I will just wait for a disc-brake frame to come up on eBay.)

[hozn]

Vicegrip helped me out today, among other things, brought my brake-boss dremeling up to professional-grade. (Everything about Vicegrip’s shop is professional grade.)

[peterw_diy]

Nicely done!

[hozn]

[ShawnoftheDread]

Where was the paint done?

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[hozn]

@ShawnoftheDread 140501 wrote:

Where was the paint done?

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I got this done at Nova Powder Coat in Chantilly (http://www.novapowdercoat.com/) The price ($120) was a bit cheaper than others that I investigated and it looks like they did a great job (nicely taped off the BB threads and HT interior surface and put plugs in fender mounts, etc.).

It does sound like the guy running the shop there might be going back to a different job full-time so the powder coating hours are not necessarily those on the website anymore.

Of course spending $120 to paint an at-best $50 frame is probably not unquestionably sound judgement. But it does look awesome! My son wants a District Taco color scheme and has named the new bike “Kona queso”. Osiris says he will hook us up with some decals

[hozn]

Fork has been stuck in NY customs for awhile, so it’s a good opportunity to start on the wheels.

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[Raymo853]

@hozn 140503 wrote:

Fork has been stuck in NY customs for awhile, so it’s a good opportunity to start on the wheels.

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Is the Crest the gen 2 or 3? The new real wide 3s are my dream.

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