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After the purchase I learned that black French threaded headsets are quite hard to come by. For example, there are NONE on ebay right now!
Are you totally sure threading is actually french?
Given that it did have a black headset before (hard to find as you say), and a cartridge BB too (of which there's only a few that are available with french threads - such as VO which are shit, and Phil Wood which cost a bunch).
[edit] ignore the black headset remark as it's obviously a different fork in use there, though BB remarks still stand.
Tychom
kaaaaaaandries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It8ktK-oZQQ
Let me start with the basis of this build, my aims and also my first hurdle...
I know jack shit about the frame, frankly, and unfortunately I cant find anything apart from the name "Yves Lagalisse" suggests that the guy was a cyclist in France circa 2010. @Breso also found;
More info, stolen from sale thread:
Anyway, I've always wanted a cool steel track bike as that's what I'm into. I did have a Langster and most of my fixie mates are more Dosnoventa/Planet X types but this time I wanted something that stands out a bit and has more of a cool factor to it. My Graham build was supposed to cover that but it was always a losing battle really. Mainly being a road frame, too big, timing not right etc etc.
I like black components, so my initial thoughts were to murder Yves out completely. Literally everything black, right down to the spokes and chainring bolts. I would then prolly decide to break the colour up a bit by fitting some gumwales tyres - atleast then something matches the Mavic decals!
But, and this brings me to my first dilema...
After the purchase I learned that black French threaded headsets are quite hard to come by. For example, there are NONE on ebay right now!
Edit: there's actually one, but at £45 WTF
This means then that I may have to play around with a mix and match between silver and black parts. I'm sure the aesthetists amongst us can agree that silver throughout on this hue of pink wont quite look right... Plus silver is not slave in nature no? Happy for you to prove me wrong.
That's the first hurdle. If I decide to go silver headset then I'm thinking...
Silver:
Black:
Using a different fork is out of the question and so is spray painting a silver headset once fitted (for now anyway)
:)
Here are some pics I stole from the sale thread - sorry but the frame is still up in London and the only one I have is the one at the very top.