White and gold Brother, white and gold.

Have you finished building your white and gold bicycle yet.

Paul Comp cross levers from the custom anodising thing last year... http://www.avt.bike/WebStore/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=AVT&Category_Code=PAUL-ANODIZED-COMPONENTS

Very nice. Well tempted by that.

No.

Awaiting spokes.

Urgh. Gold bars. Such an anti.

;)

Silver stem. Urgh.

Gold 'spoke. Urgh.

Don't worry... mine will be on the fine line between anti and urgh!.. yet just about nice that it'll be fun to ride in the summer.

I don't know what's going on here, I like the trousers of the man on the right.

Future Tory mps?

Resolved!

At least... it's finished, and I shall collect later. LMNH did the build, which is just as well as my skill at lacing wheels is basically non-existent.

Pictures?

subbed...

Later on when I collect.

I should've done the pics of the before stack of boxes and parts, but meh... I didn't.

I'm hoping the final build turns out OK and isn't as gash as it has the potential to be. Looking forward to riding it though, I really do miss having a fixed gear bike that is just pure joy to ride around on.

Riding home?

I'm excited for you!

Rode home.

It's a blast.

There's little things I forgot about riding fixed. I hadn't actually ridden fixed for about 20 months... been on the Robin Mather (with a Rohloff) or the Serotta (with gears) or the Cielo (singlespeed).

The best little thing... the silence. The blissful silence. No freewheel, no ratchets of the planetary gears, no whir of the derailleur. Just silence.

I also missed the one gear thing... want to go faster? Pedal faster. Want to slow down? Pedal slower. It's weird how immediately peaceful it is, and I'm so glad it's only 74 gear inches this time as the Bob Jackson used to be 79 and always felt a bit much. I just cruised around like it was 2007. Rolled home in the sun.

It's a great bike, responsive, snappy, and I think the colour works.

Photos tomorrow... I failed to take any, I was riding.

Photos tomorrow... I failed to take any, I was riding.

This says it all!

Curious to see how it turned out.

Diacompe Tech lever is available gold coloured..

I was ridic happy to get back on fixed..
Still am - woo!

Took a while for enough traffic lights to be encountered that I will now sometimes successfully manage a trackpause.

Photo one

damn the slow internet and upload speed

COME ON

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