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Here's my current project, or rather the bike I have been upgrading (and riding, for that matter) for over two years now. I'd pigeonhole it as recreational/commuter fixed.
I am sorry for all the crappy pictures that I had to dig up from all over my pc and the internet to post the bike here. These two years ago I didn't even know of LFGSS at all.
Some friend of mine bought the frame in a fit of fashion-and-NJS appreciation, but it was way too small for him, and after a year of lying with other rubble under his bed it found me. I understood sh-te about the stuff at the time and, borrowing half the bits, rigged this up. (With nightmarish and extra flimsy Fuji stock wheels, godbless not mine).
Still, after two previous years of riding a Soviet mass-production water-pipe-grade steel single speed conversion -- this was bliss, even though very uncomfortable (you seen the pic).
I tinkered with it quite a lot, actually, but few of the changes are documented. Here is last year's snap. The frame is a few cm small for me, as well, but within reasonable range, it's just hugely distorted by the perspective in this one.
It's just that this photo shows off the matching cap.
Now comes the blasphemous part.
I got that bee to mount a front brake, mainly because our city is all hills. Besides, it is divided in two by a river. I'll post a photo with the downhill to one of the bridges, where the gradient is the mildest; well, it simply looks somewhat more decent than the others.
After tons of research I dared make up my mind that this would be best for the purposes.
It also meant rearranging the cockpit, plus I recently drummed up nice clip-ins. This white crankset has bothered me since day one, and I am looking into changing it next.
P.S.: haven't bought the brake yet
and no, I don't mind the wallpaper