Originally Posted by daysleeper

So its my birthday soon (30th Dec) and as a present to myself I was going to make it go FASTER. Of course you can all understand this desire :)

Originally Posted by Krasi_BG (Post 122072)

Apparently a mixture of offdays, bad weather and Internet access is not the best one can experience.

Hoovering around the virtual reality, I came across a forum thread called "Pooratech" ( :lol: :lol: :lol: ) in a South-African forum (tell me about it!) - http://www.wilddog.za.net/forum/inde...&topic=12116.0
So, from there I was inspired to build myself a toolbox for the new toy. I may not be riding, but can do lots of dumb things.

I got myself a PVC pipe from the local hardware store:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j...6/IMG_1193.JPG

2 caps (apparently this is how they are called) and a drawer lock:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U...6/IMG_1192.JPG

One afternoon of cutting, drilling, swearing, scratching my head, and voila:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-m...6/IMG_1199.JPG
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z...6/IMG_1198.JPG
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V...6/IMG_1197.JPG
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e...6/IMG_1200.JPG

The masterpiece is 450mm long and 125mm in diameter (that's about 18x4.5 inches for our imperial viewers), which turned out quite big:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Z...6/IMG_1202.JPG
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O...6/IMG_1203.JPG
If it turns out that these sticking bolts get in the way, I'll swap them with rivets.

The "cool" lock:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3...6/IMG_1194.JPG
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X...6/IMG_1195.JPG
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d...6/IMG_1196.JPG

The official version for the insulation band is that it's there to improve water tightness, but the cruel truth is that I put it to cover the dodgy cut I made:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-k...6/IMG_1204.JPG

Well this is for now. I made it that far.

Now I'm contemplating on the next creation - cheap and simple pannier racks... I hope I won't mess up the nice bike until spring time (my wife hopes!).

Originally Posted by Krasi_BG (Post 158404)

Don't know what's a gutter bracket, they are from this type, but bigger:

http://borsa-jelezaria.com/wp-conten...2/11/i6872.jpg

Originally Posted by Krasi_BG (Post 121102)

Since I was prepared, I changed fork oil. There was about 150ml of oil in each fork, which seemed not enough to me. I consulted with a local suspension specialist, who also advised me to put more - till the top end of the spring with fork fully compressed. So I did - it came to about 250ml in each fork. "Preload" spring bushings are about 1/3 in length of the springs themselves. And the springs are progressive, believe it or not: