Framebuilding II - Enigma Ti travel bike

levitronix

The two sockets which join the frame how tight do you have to get them or what way is it joined ?

Lumen

levitronix wrote: »

The two sockets which join the frame how tight do you have to get them or what way is it joined ?

They came with a special spanner. Not sure how much force, have used anti-seize but don't want to gall the threads. Under the threaded section are sets of meshing teeth so the threads are not taking the strain.

levitronix

Necessity breeds great invention !! such a nice bike never thought a split bike could still look classic

manwithaplan

I am seriously impressed. Don't know where you get the time but the results are superb. +1 on the matte finish. I think it looks fantastic.

In more ways than one, I suspect this project was more about the journey than the destination.

doozerie

@Lumen, Given the rarity of Enigma bikes around here (well, that I've seen anyway), and in particular the rarity of those that dismantle, I presume that was you cycling near Rathfarnham yesterday evening?

The question you directed at me shook me out of my train of thought which consisted of wondering how I could swap my rusting commute bike for your very nice bike without you noticing, to the accompaniment of something loud and vaguely musical pumping through my headphones, so my answer at the time was a bit non-commital. Having given the question some thought since then though (...and double-checking the street signs again this morning) I can now give you a very definitive "Yes, yes you were on Rathfarnham Road". ...tough questions deserve some lengthy thought and consideration, and I am now spent...

Lumen

Ha, boardsies are everywhere! You were right anyway, I think.

I spent that entire journey cursing whoever is responsible for Dublin street signage. Along my route from central Dublin to Rathfarnham (ish) there were only about 20% of major junctions with the street name on them. WTF? How the hell is anyone supposed to navigate without satnav in this city?

doozerie

Due to lack of visual clues such as name signs I gave up a long time ago on trying to remember street names in and around Dublin, hence my not being sure of the name of a road that I travel every day. Street name signs are strategically placed far enough away from every major junction to make them next to useless, and they are spaced far enough apart along each road to make you wonder whether you are still on the same road several minutes later (answer: invariably you aren't!).

And then there are the "real and proper" road names, as opposed to the official road names - one stretch of road near me seems to be named locally according to whichever of the two connecting roads that you use to approach it! A bit like Dublin post/area codes the road names are meant to confuse and confound non-Dubliners and certainly in my case they succeed regularly.

DualFrontDiscs

Gentlemen,

Any difficulty you may have navigating the streets of Dublin pales into insignificance compared with trying to get a timetable for a bus journey outside the capital.

On the buseireann website you can buy a ticket between any two points, but you can't get a timetable! For that, you need to look through the PDFs. You'll also need to know the start and end towns for the route you are interested in and possibly also the location within the start/ end town.

I recently needed to get a bus from Navan to Cavan, both areas I am unfamiliar with. I am entirely unwilling to repeat the process again now for accuracy, but I basically had to go through endless PDFs until I found the relevant one. Had I known that the route starts at Lamb's Corner and ended at Doyle's Cross (picking up and dropping off in Navan and Cavan along the route), then I'd have at least had less difficulty.

I may have the place names mixed up now, but I am frankly too traumatised by process to repeat for accuracy here.

How a complete stranger is meant to plan anything using the bus service is beyond me.

DFD.

Lumen

DualFrontDiscs wrote: »

Any difficulty you may have navigating the streets of Dublin pales into insignificance compared with trying to get a timetable for a bus journey outside the capital.

This is why Bus Aras is full of apparently drunk homeless people.

They popped in to plan an impromptu bus trip in early 2004 but the utter futility of the situation robbed them of their self-esteem and set them on a course of bitter self-destruction.

ROK ON

Signage is significantly worse in the countryside.

doozerie

Is it really worse than the sign in Dublin (out towards Lucan, I think) that says "The West"? It has signs for some specific places beside it so "The West" is a sort of "Well, if you're not going to any of these other places you can just feck off to here instead and see if we care!". I think someone in the sign department was having on off day that day.

...and how did we get from perving over an Enigma bike to here? Lack of bleedin' online signposts, that's how!

Bunnyhopper

doozerie wrote: »

Is it really worse than the sign in Dublin (out towards Lucan, I think) that says "The West"?

I think they made them take down the original one: "The Bog".


Back on topic: very nice bike, and impressive packing skillz.