[girlonbike]

That's not too close to the levers for you?

 

[DoubleCentury]

Nice work Frog!

I prefer a bit more room for riding on the hoods.

 

[1 cog frog]

This is the initial mount up, haven't even put them on a bike yet. Personally, I don't like the Gary bars, the drop extension is way too short. These will be destined for the Woodchipper bars on my DB Overdrive.

I only mounted them up to these bars to see what they looked like. The position will take some tweaking, but I didn't want to unwrap the other bars until I was sure they would work.

I will have to fiddle with them quite a bit before I am satisfied.:thumbsup:

frog

 

[1 cog frog]

I like it! That may be the ticket to making them feel right. Luckily, that's an easy mod!

Are those the original DKG mounts? I assume you made the extensions? I would love to see the plans for those. I think the hole pattern for the shifters I have is different than the XT/XTR. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason to it while I was reverse engineering it!:madman:

Glad to see I'm not the only one who is constantly tinkering w/bike parts!

BTW DoubleCentury, what do you do for a living? Just curious how you got into machining?

frog

 

[xy9ine]

it's a maker thread! love the diy projects. the cunningham ghetto-fab thumbies are awesome.

 

[Williwoods]

seriously, awesome to see some modern cunning-fabbed parts.

 

[Austin Dave]

seriously, awesome to see some modern cunning-fabbed parts.

Yeah, isn't that great? Of course, Charlie Cunningham still makes incredibly well-finished bike parts too, like the lever-link brake on BMC Mike's bike:

https://blackmountaincycles.blogspot.com/2010/08/if-it-gets-any-better-than-this.html

More pics:
https://flic.kr/p/4866334206
But CC's MacGyver parts are inspirational, for sure.

 

[Williwoods]

Sick

 

[DoubleCentury]

Small parts in stainless

Can anyone that doesn't already know guess what these were made for?

 

[Austin Dave]

ninja robot-assassins?

Can anyone that doesn't already know guess what these were made for?

View attachment 596907

 

[1 cog frog]

Look like cable stops for the XT thumbie dirt drop shifter mounts? Wait, am I allowed to guess?

BTW, very nice work as usual!:thumbsup:

frog

 

[DoubleCentury]

Yes, good guess.

 

[1 cog frog]

Wait!

Did you cast those too?

Holy crap, you have quite the setup!

Now I am jealous, and my shop has a HAAS CNC Mill and Mori Seiki dual spindle CNC Lathe!

More info and pics please!

 

[DoubleCentury]

Sorry, no these are some WTB leftovers.

I have no CNC machines.

 

[DoubleCentury]

No CNC

I suppose a CNC would have been really helpful for this 15 years ago,

 

[Williwoods]

what the hell is that contraption? no front brake and looks like no cassette...........I need more info please.

 

[DoubleCentury]

More when the project is finished.

 

[Williwoods]

ah ok. looks like a long term project for sure. looks like homemade derailleurs and brakes etc....

you own hubs too?

 

[DoubleCentury]

Yes, as much as I could make myself. But then I started riding lots and life got in the way.

 

[Williwoods]

awesome. hopefully it functions as nice as it looks.