Mystery Track Lopro Strip & Rebuild

do you mean width between dropouts (l-r) or actual cut-out height (top-bottom)? sounds a bit of a pain :( but don't worry, because I need to get some orange touch-up from the man anyway. scrape away! / wait a little while for everything to harden...

Cut out height, should be 10mm but it's more like 9.5ish I reckon...

That looks amazing!

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Also just ordered a seatpost - might be a bit marmite for some but I think it will suit the fixed TT look ongoing for.

Also I might give my stronglight cranks a super spit and polish tomorrow and fit them. I've bottled it a bit on the campag cranks as it's going to come to the best part of £350 (with BB) and it just seems a bit excessive given I already have a perfectly good set sitting in the cupboard. So that just leaves stem really...

Silver or black for the stem? Headset is silver, seatpost will be black, bars are black, hmmmm

Merci! How did your custom frame turn out?

Silver.

Also, what seatpost? Need something long and silver for the Dave...

It's going to be black - Profile fast forward - have a google ;-)

looks awesome.

Tough call, if the cranks are silver - I presume - then silver.

A fucking gaston post! No! Black stem then.

Gaston?!

Silver with black chainring for now...

To make the stem work in black I reckon everything else must be black right.

Gaston?!

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Thanks for clearing that up - this one, however, is by design. It may look a bit fugly, not sure yet but it matches the airwings I already have and will make it comfy to ride, especially in the aero bars

Spokes picked up from the work post room today, time to get these bad boys laced up!

I have a forward seatpost (profile design) on LES...
Been flamed for it...

I expect to get flamed but hey, let's play a game... Heeeere we go!

At least I might make it rideable...

Also another question of opinion for the wider group - @6pt 's Serotta thread got me think as there was some mention of people wanting to see all black components. What is the general consensus on all black miche advanced cranks? They can be had for about a third of what campags would cost and come in all black... I also used to have a set and loved them, although the alloy cups got suck in the frame and I ended up having to use the caustic soda method to dissolve them. This was undoubtably due to all weather riding and lack of maintenance however.

I had miche cranks and bb and never had an issue with either. The BB was fine, despite lots of other people having issues with it.

But how would they look?! Aesthetics is king ya know!

Buy some record cranks and I'll swap my black primaries for them.

But tbh you might as well get some black omniums in from Germany for not much more.

Too late, I got excited and might have purchased a set, plus BB, plus cog and rimtape.

Don't like the idea of external bb cranks in steel frames for some reason.

Shopping list of tyres, tubes, stem and aerobars remaining...