RoadUno build anticipation

[Bill Lindsay]

I'm eagerly waiting for the container to get to Walnut Creek.  Today my grips came in.  I'm going with a Silver RoadUno, which features purples in the graphics.  I bought purple Vans Lock on grips, whose clamps match a very cool oil slick purple Affinity 15mm mini ratchet wrench that I already had.  In front of the brake levers I'll run eggplant Newbaums, which I'll wrap over a layer of ESI silicon tape.   

A pic proves it:  https://flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/53923848393/in/album-72177720319534027

I've started an album to capture the build.  

Bill Lindsay

El Cerrito, CA

[Bicycle Belle Ding Ding!]

Oil slick! Did you get this inspiration from the My Little Platy?! If you really want to go wild, I will send you all the links for all the oil slick you can handle. They even sell oil slick bolts for the bottle cage mounts/rack mounts on Amazon… I do love eggplant and silver. This will be great. APPROVE.

Leah

[Bill Lindsay]

Leah

I will not be going wild in that way.  I will, however, brace myself for a forthcoming scolding for the cultural references implied when using the phrase "to go wild". :-)

"Did you get this inspiration from the My Little Platy?"  I was on oil-slick much earlier, and your Platy did not put me off the oil slick.  It started with the wrench.  One of the local bike shops that I sometimes visit is The Pedaler in El Sobrante.  They have a pretty nice BMX and fixie case of things, and the compact "Affinity" brand 15mm ratchet caught my eye.  The guy said they got the oil slick treatment special from Affinity, and he had it in black also.  I sprung for the oil slick because it was cool.  

In parallel, I've been waiting for an opportunity to use Vans grips.  I grew up in Orange County and I am of a sufficient age that my grade school used to tour the Vans Factory there in the city of Orange.  Back then, a pair of Vans was $20, and for an extra $1 they would build your Vans in whatever custom combination of their colors that you could think up.  You'd just walk into the Vans store and pick your color way.  

Then, when curating the color way for my forthcoming RoadUno build I was looking at various purple grips, and discovered that one of the numerous grips available in Purple is the Vans offering, and that grip featured the oil slick treatment on the clamp.  So, I decided the grip matching the wrench was just meant to be.  While I ordered the Purple ones I also got a set of the traditional gum color also, so they really look like the Vans soles that I wore throughout my youth.  

In my communications with Will, I did confirm that his crack "at least one maniac will..." was aimed at me.  So as to not let him down, I've got a unique drivetrain configuration in store that will earn the title and freak out the traditionalists.  I even went on Custom Ink and designed this T-Shirt.  I haven't ordered it yet:

https://www.customink.com/designs/alom/mzf0-00cw-2gh6/rsdfu/?utm_content=lsdimg&utm_source=RSDFU%20%28SNB%29&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rsdfu_savers_day21%20%28NbhxDx%29&_kx=NXF_6Lml056J_AH2BzBbymb1-qXdxA063E_tUUQ9xu1TNQ5y-8PreOKuIj_8jDWG.Q4AcEH

I'm counting on having it set up for a September Diablo Summit

Bill Lindsay

El Cerrito, CA

[Laing Conley]

I am trying to figure out whether to go with the purple MKS XC-III Bear Trap pedals or the purple Deity TMAC pedals on the purple RoadUno frame: Brooks grips and aged B-68 with yellow lacing. I do have some  purple OURY grips but that would be too much purple.

Laing Conley

Delray Beach FL

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[Adam Huggins]

I've used my Roadeo with a ENO flip flop hub before to get my SS fix - but this here is a purpose built SS and I haven't fiddled wit sliding dropouts in ages - nostalgia. Just need to convince the other half... :)

[Bill Lindsay]

Interestingly...all the RoadUno completes are marked as Sold Out.  I wonder what that's about.  I think it's unlikely that they really are sold out in every size and color...

BL in EC

[Edwin W]

My appaloosa is albatrossed, geared, racked, fendered, and dynamo lit up.

I am going to start my roaduno (61 purple) as different as possible: bullmoose bar, fixed and stripped down.

And then before long I am sure I will add fenders, racks and dynamo lighting! 

We will see,

Edwin

[Richard Rose]

Fantastic! What is the handlebar?

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[Tom M]

I do like ESI bar tape. But for further oil slick inspiration, I'll point out that Wolf Tooth offers some bottle cage bolts in titanium, like so: https://www.wolftoothcomponents.com/products/titanium-water-bottle-cage-bolts?pr_prod_strat=e5_desc&pr_rec_id=014688859&pr_rec_pid=6629660262435&pr_ref_pid=5586981253&pr_seq=uniform. Looking forward to seeing the build.

Tom in Alexandria, VA

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[Leah Peterson]

Wilding and oil slick. It’s what we’re doing now. 

Can’t wait to see the rest of the bike. Hope you sneak a few extra oil slick bits in there. 

Leah

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Leah

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[Laing Conley]

VO Klunker handlebars. 

Laing

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[Bill Lindsay]

I probably won't sneak any more oil slick bits on there.  I'm pretty normcore when it comes to that stuff.  

The way I'll let my freak flag fly will be in the drivetrain setup.  I've built my own 120mm O.L.D. cassette hubs, upcycled from an obsolete model of Shimano hub intended for small-wheel bikes (like folders, miniVelos and some recumbents).  That hub takes regular cassette cogs, just less of them.  My multigear or touring configuration will have a 6 speed cassette on that cassette hub.  There will be a front derailleur with a downtube shifter.  The rear derailleur will be actuated by a Silver Shifter on a Paul Thumbie clamped to the seat tube.  The Paul Thumbie is 31.8mm and so I'll use the same plastic shims that one uses to mount a 31.8mm front derailleur onto a 28.6 seat tube.  The housing guides will be two P-clips down the drive side seatstay bolted to the two rack/fender eyelets.  That touring wheelset already exists and is running on my Quickbeam today and features a SON Dynamo up front.  That's why Will was counting on me to be "at Least one Maniac".  

Because both shifters will be ergonomically hidden, I'll still ride it like it's a single speed.  I won't be shifting like crazy like the "1-tooth jump" brifter-crowd.  But when I get to a steep hill, there will be another "single speed" that's lower.  

Bill Lindsay

El Cerrito, CA

[Danny]

Bill, that build sounds freaky in the best of ways, can't wait to see the finished project! Worthy of a Riv newsletter feature no doubt!

Danny
Madison, WI

[Nick A.]

I'd like to posit for consideration Mr. Lindsay in our space as our own resident ""genius maniac". All of the approves and kudos. I'm always happy and inspired by your ideas and updates.

Nick in FC VA

[Ryan]

I'd second that! I always appreciate Mr. Lindsay's creative and elegant builds and the thought processes behind them.

Not in bike acquisition mode right now, but if I was I'd be all over the Roaduno...which in flat Winnipeg , I would just leave as a singlespeed. For now I will just live vicariously through y'all.

No doubt you've seen Blue Lug's build party with a SS purple and 2 or 4 speed mustard. The 2 young guys doing the builds seem to be having a lot of fun building them and , most importantly, riding them. I really like the minimalist purple. The tensioner on the mustard sure looks like a deraiileur to me. What is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADPaX6T-BO4
 

[Jeffery S]

@Ryan pretty sure that's a Rohloff chain tensioner

[Doug Van Cleve]

Hey Bill (or anyone with an informed opinion),

Can cloth tape wrapped over padded tape still be shellacked?  I'm going to be wrapping a Chocomoose forward of the brake levers, and a bit more girth and some cush would be nice but I do want to shellac to match a honey Brooks...

Thanks, Doug

Going thru some oldish Gmail in Chandler, AZ

[Shoji Takahashi]

Hi Doug,

Yes, you can shellac cloth tape wrapped over padded tape. 

Good luck,

shoji

Arlington MA