MBK road bike

i inherited an MBK frame and am not keen on the standard 80s double fluro fade they have. i stripped it and nanocoated it:

and i basically want it to look a bit like this.

i've got the mavic wheelset it came with, plus forks as shown above, chainset and quill stem.

i want to replace the forks & stem with straight carbon 1" a head setup, get some bars and sort the brakes and gears - laner mentioned getting bosses that sit where the current shifters are (downtube) to guide them up to be with the brake levers as normal. then just a black wheelset (anyone selling? talk ta me). i'm keeping the original seatpost because the MBK frames have a frankly awful mechanism where the bolt screws straight into the seatpost and leaves notches and as it's my old ratbike i'm not too bothered about putting anything too fancy on it and potentially ruining it.

i'm supposed to be going away on this bike in a couple of weeks so fingers crossed i get things together!

Cooool, any ideas on the groupset?

105 everything, some second hand, plus old 1" bianchi forks for stem transformation thanks to cycle ps. everything done either at home or at seabass cycles in camberwell & peckham, plus the nanocoat. shimano rs31 wheels, should be fine to get me around hungary next week!

happy.

I used to have one of those mbk's and they surprisingly decent. The raw finish is live! Ps. You need to get these when out in hungary, they so so good -

what is this and how common are they to get. i can see sugar and what looks like a baked good, definitely relevant to my interests.

i'm not going til next sat so i have from now til then to enjoy laner sending me pictures of pizza every day from macedonia/albania/montenegro/wherever he and malayz are now. distinct lack of baked goods in the tour de instagram

Kürtőskalács , I remember them being sold from stalls all around the balaton lake and in the centre of budapest in general. You can get them dipped in various flavours, cinnamon, sugar etc. I was addicted to them when I went last. Also check out http://www.szimpla.hu/ if you pass through budapest, beers like 80p I pint from what I remember. Also just remembered and highly recommend the Széchenyi Thermal Baths, they do like weekly or monthly pool partys which are kinda cringe in a way but are a good laugh still

Nanocoat? Please explain...

Here's a proper paint for motobecane:

Mine is from the 90' I quess though as it's with campy ergos already

Looks like a fun project. I like the inspiration bike.

What is nanocoating? And if it's beater, why replace the fork?

I've got one of these myself, lovely ride!! My MBK runs 26.4 seatpost, and trying to find a decent one is quite hard in the first place, so I didn't changed mine either. Is yours a Trainer or a Champion model?

Here is one I did for my brother a while back. Columbus Aelle with ovalised tubing, lovely rear brake cable routing.
I ended up selling the frameset here on the forum, I would be interested in knowing where it's at now. #csb

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