On One Pompino owners...

Ah that's annoying. They work for me, but they're directly linked from my Google Photos account. Hang on...

better?

It's you.

Works fine for me.

I just rehosted them on imgur!

All good now

But they worked for me before then.

Ah cheers - that's curious though.

@fizzy.bleach I like the colour is it stock? On one seem to make leary colours like my hi vis glow in the dark green

Nah it's a powder coat. The decals I got cheeps off the bay. I've half a mind to do a home made sunset fade on it, but that's probably all I need.

Planning to finish my blue V4 build with Alfine 11 hub this weekend. I am an old bloke so rather traditional components, and all metal parts but the front light, stem and brakes are silver. I got the frame early last year when they were £99, it arrived with a 1cm chip on the back of one fork leg, sent photo and negotiated a £20 refund. Got a reasonable match with car paint touch up- a Rover colour which I can check if anyone needs it. It is just ever so slightly darker, but the position of the chip means it is not easy to spot.

Frame: Pompino V4 blue, medium- rear spread with care to 135mm using Sheldon Brown method, track ends carefully re-aligned with help of 18" adjustable spanner.

FSA Orbit MX headset installed

Token 103mm carbon square taper JIS BB installed

Front wheel stress relieved tensioned and trued: Shimano DH-3n80 dynamo hub, 32h, ACI Alpina DB spokes (could not get my usually preferred Sapim Race in right length)
Rear wheel needs final truing and tensioning: Alfine 11 hub, 36h, Sapim Race DB spokes.
Rims: Exal LX17 (17mm internal width)
Rim tape: Schwalbe HP
Tyres: Vittoria Voyager Hyper 32mm
Tubes: Conti race 28-32mm
Valve caps: tarty blue anodised from Fleabay
Mudguards: Dia Compe ENE silver alloy
Brakes: Front Shimano Sora 90mm v-brake, SwissStop GHP pads in BBB shoes; Rear old LX low profile canti, Surley cable hanger hung on seatpost clamp bolt
Brake cables: 'We The People' BMX linnear outers, Shimano SS road inners
Gear cable Shimano SIS/ Shimano stainless inner.
Bars Planet X Strada Compact Lite 7050 400mm
Bar tape: Vavert blue cork gel, cheap from Fleabay
Stem: On One Hot Box 90mm
Shift/brake levers: used Versa 11 from Fleabay
Saddle: Spa Cycles Wharfe leather (like B17 narrow)
Seat post: something silver from back of garage
Crankset: Spa Cycles TD2 double 165mm
Crank bolts and chainring bolts: Jtek stainless
Chainring: Surly stainless 34T
Sprocket: Sturmey Archer 1/8" 22T
Chain: KMC B1S
Rear rack: Tortec Ultralite, used from Fleabay
Rack bolts: Ti Grade 5 mushroom head
Brake bolts: stainless mushroom head
Mudguard & bottle cage bolts: alloy.
Lights: Front: Hermann H-One S 90lux dynamo LED lamp; rear Spanninga Solo XDS dynamo rack light.

What have I forgotten??

Pics to follow when it is done

EDIT: SA rear sprocket is 21T

Disgusting lack of detail on the bottle/mudguard bolts. Would not read again.

Apologies:

Mudguard and bottle cage bolts M5 15mm caphead alloy screws in silver, may need cutting to length.

Also silver Tortec alloy bottle cages x 2, silver Shimano M520 SPD pedals, Shimano SM-PD 22 pedal reflectors, am I forgiven now? ;-)

If you take the pedal reflectors off, yes x

Never!

Or not until the clocks change, lots of dark commuting at the moment and I am a bit paranoid about being totally legal, worried that if hit by a car and I or my survivors want compensation some clever legal eagle will try to reduce compensation on any technicality.

One last thing: seatpost clamp: could not find a reasonably priced silver one so bought a black one to swap with the silver one from my Claud Butler Dalkesman touring bike, which has a black headset anyway.

I love how thorough this is

Pompino V4 blue, medium- rear spread with care to 135mm using Sheldon Brown method, track ends carefully re-aligned with help of 18" adjustable spanner.

I'd like to express caution as the Pompino while being a great value singlespeed bicycle, they aren't known for being strong, particularly in the BB area;

Having the frame respaced may increase the likelihood of it cracking, however it could well be a small number of Pompino that have cracked and there have been a lots of people who ridden it to death and it's still running as true as the day the vastly underpaid worker build it.

Are any of those from polo? All the hopping killed a couple of pompinos like that.

No idea, this is what I found via google image, however good point as they were a popular choice for polo.

Caution was and will be applied in spades, I am fairly light (though not as light as I should be...) and this will be road use only, with around 10kg max on the rack. For loaded touring I have my CB Dalesman which is super tough if not that light at 14.4kg. I have also seen pics of Inbreds with similar damage and the common theme was serious off road use, plus in my opinion a weak point where the chainstays are heavily dimpled.

Anyway the main advice regarding re-spacing is do it gradually in steps so you do not over correct and have to bring it back the other way, and only do it once.

BTW I weighed the bare frame (size medium) and uncut fork at 2210g and 950g respectively.

I coldest one of my Pomp frames to 135. Not a v4. Still going strong. Wasn't used for polo til I sold it to Newcastle Dave. Was coldest 5years ago.

2012 was a chilly year.

It was no 2010.

Yeah in 2010 the cold set in for a couple of months ;-)

Meanwhile I have to confess to not quite finishing the project yet, one excuse is that the mudguards have not arrived yet from Singletrack Bikes, and the weather forecast for today was grim down here in 'Sunny Cornwall'. Commuting in on a mudguard equipped tourer was preferable to on a new mudguard-less bike. This meant less motivation to get it done quickly, though if the guards come today I may well finish it off tonight.

Jobs done over weekend:

Final tensioning and truing of rear wheel
Assemble and fit chainset
Fit pedals
Fit front brake
Fit levers
Fit brake cables
Wrap bars
Fit rear rack

Jobs remaining:

Fit rear brake
Fit and adjust gear cable
Check saddle position, bars position
Cut stem
Fit mudguards

If you're anything like me, the bike will take about 6 months to "build" (translation: be rideable) and another 18 months to "finish" (translation: dick about with).