Porklyn Gangsta Track

Anyone who's spent any time in the Brooklyn thread will know that I've been gagging to get my hands on one of these for eons.

@DoktorPepe had one which was ideal and when I picked up some wheels from him a while back, I asked him for first refusal if he ever decided to sell. At the time he assured that his was a keeper and would never be sold, but a couple of years later I received a PM stating that the time had come. Monies changed hands and he kindly looked after it for me until I was back in the UK (March '15) and it's been sat in storage ever since.

As a result of being backwards and forwards for the next six months, I've been able to look at a new assembly project - purely because the slow acquisition of bicycle parts is something that I've come to miss over the past few years.

So, down to business: I have a Brooklyn Gangsta Track V2 with V1 forks in a Medium.

I've found the painter already and as a result of @hoops suggestion, I'll be using Ali at Fat Creations. I've had a chat with him and sent some images about what I was looking for and he's replied quickly and seems keen to get started.

As a result of my add travel/work between here and the Middle East, it's not something I need turned around in a 7-10 days. Ali understands that this is something that he can take his time on.

I narrowed the choice of custom painting down to two choices - inspiration from the Porsche Pink Pig 917 development car from 1971 (shown below, along with a Specialized SWorks) OR a humble watermelon - largely taken from @Paramounted and his recently for sale forks.

Ali looked at both ideas and of the two, the Pink Pig would cost less as a result of the watermelon requiring significantly more work. I'm going with the Pink Pig, clearly...

Now I await the slow but steady sensation of parts buying.

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S-Works:

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S-Works built up:

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In keeping with the car, I'll be sourcing all black components where possible. Despite the car dating from 1971, I'll have the number 74 as opposed to 23.

Dark grey instead of black?

Matt or gloss?

Gloss.

And black, not grey.

Bingo. Will the names of the cuts be in English? I dig it lotz.

Not entirely sure, but I'm leaning towards calling it the "Porklyn".

It is porky after all.

Yeah, or Boarklyn?

Ha! This is all to be decided.

I miss my bike. Glad to see it's getting this sort of treatment.

heh, BUTT END, you should put that right on the top tube/seat tube junction.

Painter's gonna have to be pretty talented for this to not be anti

I'm fairly confident:

https://www.instagram.com/p/-CsEUouk8v/?taken-by=fatcreations

Ali knows his stuff, truly awesome stuff. If rob can't do you, he's the go to..

BMW ham-sta track?

Liking the Ham-sta vibe.

Wow they do stunning work. Can't wait to see how yours works out. Giving me unnecessary ideas for some of my bikes ;)!

Sorry I wasn't up for this... It,s just not really my kinda thing, and I wouldn't of had the motivation to do it properly. It's not a massively complicated job to be honest, and will look much better than your watermelon idea in my opinion. Ali will do a great job for you. He's a much better painter than me, one of the best in the country for sure.
Hope it all turns out the way you want.

No worries man.

who comes up with these paint schemes...

https://www.instagram.com/p/-zs0Heuk6l/?taken-by=fatcreations

Like I said - I'm fairly confident in Ali.

Are you going to ride this non-halal bike in the Middle East?