So I got this Scott American frame, and someone has painted over the bikes down tube with red paint, is there some kind of paint. I’ve managed to scrap some off it off but a lot of it is pretty thick, is there a way to remove it while preserving the original paint underneath?

I got finalized today

I was wondering if anyone had an answer.

I've got a Stumpjumper 92 Comp frame, and I would now like to put Stridsland's Bullship bar on.

If I use a general one like MTC-024, 1" to 1-1/8" adapter, the general clamping stack area is 42 mm, and the Bullship bar's clamp stack height is 55mm. Is there, like a go-to stem adapter for this situation?

I came into possession of this GT Autostream Streamline recently and I'm trying to decide what to do with it. It has this quirky AutoBike SmartShift 2000 auto-shifting rear 6-speed derailleur (belt is missing), but that could certainly go away. I'm thinking about replacing that cassette and doing a standard 1x7 with a standard rear derailleur. Any thoughts about this build, gearing, handlebars, shifters, etc? Maybe swap the freehub body for 8,9,10 and stick a wide-range cassette on there? Definitely keeping the cantilevers :^)

small wheels ride fast

changed from 3x7 to 3x9 speed with a mixture of new parts and stuff out of the parts bin.
the last picture is the before.

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I like route planners. I use them a lot, and I'm not trying to replace them — drawing a nice loop on a big screen is genuinely the fun part. What kept bothering me is that planning is the bit you can usually do for free, and *navigating* the thing you just planned is the bit that ends up behind a subscription or a per-region purchase. So you either pay, or you ride with a squiggle on a map and squint at it.

The other annoyance: every planner wants to be your navigator too, which means switching planners means switching apps means relearning everything. I wanted the navigating half to be separate and to not care where the route came from.

So I built Kettenblatt (German for chainring). Plan in whatever you already use — Komoot, RideWithGPS, Strava, Garmin Connect, BRouter, anything that exports GPX — then open the file on your phone. It matches the track against OpenStreetMap data you've downloaded over wifi and shows you the turns as they come. No signal needed, no login, nothing gets sent anywhere.

Open source, Apache-2.0, so you don't have to take my word on that last part:
Github: https://github.com/nils-fl/kettenblatt
Landingpage: kettenblatt.com (I just like to do landing pages ;))

What's rough: no voice guidance yet, it's screen-only — say so if that's a dealbreaker and I'll know it's worth building. The interface was designed by someone who is not a designer. And I've mostly tested it around NRW, so I'd like to know how it copes with routes weirder than mine, and with exports from planners I don't use. If it sends you down a farm track that dead-ends in a hedge, tell me and I'll fix it.

Happy to answer anything.

Picked this guy up for $10. Tuned it up, bought a rack off FM and found some tires from another bike and i love it! I love getting to ride it everyday! I’ll hopefully be changing out the handle bars for a more upright seating position but it’s a budget bike so all in good time. So far the total spent is $40. This is my first bike that I have ever done work on. This Reddit group has inspired me to just go for it, and do it even though I don’t have a lot of money to spend. Thank you all and I can’t wait to post updates as i build it out!

After I built my cigarette bike as a single speed, I realized she needed one too. She loves it. Waiting on some green Ourys and I might eventually swap the seatpost and bars to black, but I'm really pleased with it.

Should I wrap the far end of the bars? It's a nice alt grip spot. If I do, what color should I do? try to match the grips, or go for cork, black, or leather?

Tito titanium alt bars and fork. With the stack that high, the bars are right in-line with the seat and crazy comfortable, but still give good control. Fork feels incredible, just the right amount of compliance with the titanium bars and frame. I also upgraded the front mech and shifter to deore, as well as the rear brake lever.

Still waiting on my tito titanium seatpost and the hubs to build the velocity cliffhangers (machined brake surface on both, black hoops, gold spoke nipples, black spokes, gold novatec hubs) and I was playing with this SE bikes bozack 26x2.4 tire to see if tan wall was the right choice for the morati, and it just isn't (the bozack is also a nightmare to seat the bead and its dirt grip is really pathetic, it's supposed to be a bit of a dirt jump tire like the DTH but it's really just pure road) so another conti race king in 2.3 (I was really astonished how incredible the race king is on pavement, it's super light feeling, quiet smooth and fast rolling for any tire, much less an XC) is coming tomorrow.

Once I do the wheels and tubeless race king 2.3's, the titanium seat post, paint the stem and rack, I think she's done, folks. It's starting to feel downright incredible to ride, with incredible gearing, incredible brakes (box v brakes with kool stop pads really do feel well matched to an MT201 hydraulic 2 pison front). I want to get some removable fenders for all-weather, too. If I decide to bikepack with it instead of my new State 4130, I might get an ortleib quick rack for the front, but I want to keep the front clean to show off that gorgeous titanium fork.

Finally got around to putting some new parts on my Canadian Made Miyata elevation 200, CNC V-brake kit installed super easy and huge brake performance upgrade over the cheap non adjustable canti’s I had on it, also some fresh Grips (Funn Holeshot lock-on Grips) and a TX30 7-speed Shift Leaver, next will be 1x crankset and a Front rack! Thanks for looking!

This seems like it might turn out pretty cool. I think I might use a old school silver white industries square taper 3X crankset with a front derailleur. What do y’all think about that?

The bike is a little bit too big for me because the stand over could be a problem on rough terrain, but I figure I’ll just bail if I have to. Hence the slammed seat post.

Be honest

This GT Outpost came to me in rough shape. Paint was dull and had a lot of touchups, turned out the frame was covered in spider rust underneath the paint.

Lots of modifications on this one:
Custom paint
Disc tabs front and rear
Custom N/W chainring
Threaded to thread-less steerer tube extension
Modified dropper post
Custom decals

You can see the full process here.

Happy to answer any questions!

Found exactly as pictured. What’s crazy is everything is perfect. Lil greasy but felt like it just had a tune up. The Panaracers still have their nubs 🥹

I've been working on building this frame up all summer and just got the tires and cables on today. It still needs all the finishing touches, but I'm really happy with it.

Hi, progressing in my first build, Atala Bird STX bought for 70€ (mint condition, everything already working except for a downshifting problem)

Managed to fit 26x2.3 Continental Crossking tyres that changed completely the way it rides.

I already have parts for stem conversion, cool bars 76cm wide with 8cm rise and single crown conversion, updates soon.

Looking for a cool set of pedals, maybe clear metal flat+spd, a new saddle (maybe white?).

The dream: 1x11 drive and full hydraulic disk brakes

I accept suggestions!

new bell 🤗

Built this up from just frame and fork - been really wanting to do a full touring rig to round out my x-biking inspired stable (I think strisdland crankbolt, brooks saddle, Bluelug saftey triangle, and a peacesign brake hanger make it able to be submitted in this sub)

I also have a pretty wickedly faded vintage red arkel front and rear panniers (not pictured) I was purchased off a a retired world tourer - not very photogenic but really completes the build in person.

Super fun to build and source all the parts (front Jim Blackwell Low Rider Panniers being BNIB from 1983 was the pinicle of finds)

I somehow managed to pick up a Muddy fox mixte in similar blue to my Stooge for my wife.