Brooklyn Machine Works

That's it, I'm gonna put drop on mine.

Go for it. I've done the nds on my V1 a few years ago as well. I'm no expert but I can give you a few tips if you're interested.

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Offering Ed advice? You're new here, aren't you...

New favourite Brooklyn colour scheme. Personally I love the pink/peach base layer with the flakes of blue and white more and would do the whole thing in that...reminds me of the 500k Damien hirst livewrong Madone

Love to see a homemade paintjob on a Gangsta. Good job!

Paint pornnn

Looks great bro, did you finish it today?

Fitted drop, got the v brakes to work fine with road levers and found bar tape.

Your Gangsta is now my new favourite.

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Old Kinesis Pure CX, only one in 405mm length.

thanks!

Looks fantastic, needs bigger tyres

have the same bar stem combo on mine :--)

New favourite Brooklyn colour scheme. Personally I love the pink/peach base layer with the flakes of blue and white more and would do the whole thing in that...reminds me of the 500k Damien hirst livewrong Madone

Thanks @Cheetah. The base layer is actually the green bits that were sprayed over with pink. Then came the peach splatter and finally the white and blue splatter over the whole frame after I unmasked it. If I started from scratch I would have left out the green and probably went for something yellowish, light blue or even gray, idk. That's the downside of not having absolutely any photoshop skills. I took a few pics of the process if you wanna see.

Love to see a homemade paintjob on a Gangsta. Good job!

It's far from perfect but thanks. DIY all the way!

Looks great bro, did you finish it today?

Finished it on Friday i think, put the rest of the decals on on Sunday.

@Heldring

Haha thanks but that's you being waaay too kind.

Ok now I get it. I misunderstood your

I'm gonna put drop on mine.

comment.

I thought that ''drop'' was slang for splattering aka dripping paint on the frame. That's why I offered some painting tips. I totally missed the obvious, doh!
Looking good btw. I liked your build with the Nitto drops as well but that probably wasn't as comfortable.

have the same bar stem combo on mine :--)

It's a good combo, switched it over to my mtb and currently running these

Make sense, I'm just 100% comfortable with drop bar and brake hood no matter how hard I try to like the hybrid flat bar lark, still, I'm gonna try and get it to look more like my old raw V2 with big gumwall.

BTW, V-brakes totally work with road brake levers as long you got compressionless, a bit spongy but much better than with a normal Shimano housing where the levers hit the bar to get full power.

Yeah that would be cool, cheers

how to get the vs too stop squealing on narrow rims though @edscoble :(

When I've ridden with brakes in the past, I've always used the same stuff that I use on cars - copper grease.

When applying power? Shouldn't squeal unless you're riding with Archetypes or similar.

open pros. i know @Borek has had a similar issue with skinny rims with v brakes. unavoidable i think