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Looking nice dude and quick!

All my parts have arrived for my niner rlt9! Bar the wheels (loaners) which I'll pick up from a mate some time next week as I'm away from Wednesday for a week!

Build will be done then.

Girly chainring and manly paint job.

Built and first ride complete. Did not dissapoint. Shimano know how to make brakes too, even for bog standard Deore. Wheelset will be first to be upgraded but I just want to enjoy riding it first.

Mismatched 3rd bottle cage will go too. Heres a pic of the massive clearance:

I hope you're not planning on doing any long rides with those bars..

;-)

But... one hand position!

Fear not, drops and spyres planned for any PROPER rides

Should have expected this really

jheeze this looks sick.
whats the frame?

You twisted fucker.

Stealth decals doing the job then. Its my orlowski custom. Heres a better pic of the dt

And the ht

Pics on pedalroom

Good work Turk

great orlo!

Nice one

Any updates on your rychtarski?

sooo on point

It's now in Tenderloin's custody.

Oh no way! That bike was awesome, you have something else on the way?,

great orlo!!

Great Orlo

a stable should be two parts imho,
cavalry and infantry,

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I would like S.Record Aero + Drilled 40cm Giro D'italia's but overall I'm very happy with this build. Very comfortable and fast. Wheels are holdin up well, Mavic G.E.L 280's + db spokes & 75-80kgs worth of human.

Mavic G.E.L 280's + db spokes & 75-80kgs worth of human.

Keep a look out for a GL330 or GP4 in the appropriate drilling so that you have something to turn to when the rear rim starts cracking around the spoke holes.

Been riding my beaten up Lejeune as a commuter steed, and a small crack on the top tube has caught my eye.. Didn't look great and since I've seen it I can swear I hear a grinding sound going up hills or really cranking it... Definitely just being paranoid though.

I took it round to Winston Vaz who agrees it's certainly suspect. He's offered to replace the top tube in the same tubing (653 o.s) for a good price.

Debating whether it's worth it, and if I did get it done should I have the whole thing repainted? Or just varnish over the repair.

On a side note getting the top tube replaced will also fix a big dent, which isn't worth fixing on its own.

Anyway, not sure what to do. Any opinions? May just leave it and see if it propogates further round the tube.

Sand back paint and inspect?