Colonel Winter's Hard Tail

[GrumpyGregry]

So, where were we? Oh yes. I couldn't get the old BB off but the lbs did

To use a Hope BB with an SRAM/Truvativ GXP crankset you need to add a couple of adapter rings to the non-drive side bearings to cope with the 'step down' like so

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Then it is a case of pop the cup in the frame with lots of anti-sieze and a spacer

Then pop the drive side on one along with the inner tube, a spacer and the stinger

Chainset was already ringed up and ready to go so in it went

and I don't think the triple mech looks too bad....

 

[VamP]

Are you doing this outdoors by choice or...

Looking good!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Tweak the H screw to give only two rings of shifting plus one trimming click on the gripshift shifter then pop the new chain on with the new cassette.

slightly worried I've take one too many links out of the chain but we will see, B screw adjusted to give the 6mm SRAM say you need

Shifting works nicely and the chain moves in and out of the stinger roller gully from the off

job appears a good 'un, will test it off the stand and down the woods tomorrow.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Are you doing this outdoors by choice or...

Looking good!

My workshop doubles as a back garden.

 

[Dan151]

I like this I think i need a chain guide on my boardman pro but the gold colour wont go with the grey frame

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I like this I think i need a chain guide on my boardman pro but the gold colour wont go with the grey frame

The nice people at Hope do them in black too.

 

[Dan151]

The nice people at Hope do them in black too.

Payday friday then

 

[Dan151]

The nice people at Hope do them in black too.

Payday friday then

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Payday friday then

It does rather mean giving up on the big ring though...

 

[Dan151]

It does rather mean giving up on the big ring though...

Its a bash ring since i hammered it off a tree stump.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

any way, today, once I got over the twin annoyances of an interrupted night's sleep, woken at 04:30 and wasn't able to get off again, and the realisation that the heating element in the dishwasher has 'gone', crappy German engineering the darned thing is only 15+ years old ffs, I went down the woods.

Nothing broke or fell off, and after an hour or so off sessioning trackstands, riding slowly around trees, wheelies and rooty step ups I decided I'm a 2x9 convert too.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Its a bash ring since i hammered it off a tree stump.

ah well 2x10 it is then.