Current Projects chat and miscellany

Were those custom decals?

No, they came with it. I assume that when Evian (who brought these into the UK in the early/mid 80s) went shopping, Kuwahara offered them a choice of branding and they went with the fish because proper cyclists here looked down on BMX and would probably have avoided anything co-branded with what were regarded as children's bikes. I had a couple of Sumas from Rotrax in Southampton before I got the Osaka Pro from Whiskers in Kilburn.

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HHSRB

^it's the spirit yes let's have fun now ! U like it ?

16 spoke rear 🤔

16 spoke rear

That's just Gaston being over cautious, the 16s work on tandems, for a solo you only really need the 12s

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oui, bien sur, c'est genial

My current project. Fixed gear road conversion rebuild from a 1987 columbus slx frame I bought on here in 2011! Haven't ridden for a while, got lazy with motorcycling and dog walking, I can't wait. ebay used deda bars creaking like mad so need replacement bars. They creak on their own without anything attached. Going to get old school curved ones too not anatomic.

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Needs a better picture, but just finished putting together a Surly Karate Monkey with 60mm tyres and a belt drive bodged in there.

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Drive side would be a good start. How did you split the frame?

Also what is the other bike?

Looks like a repainted All-City Big Block with a condor disc fork.

New cassette (SRAM XG-1150), chain (SRAM X1) & cables (Nokon) today, now hopefully my CX bike should shift reliably. The old cassette was bent & the derailleur cable was routed incorrectly, don't think the previous owner was super careful.

Next on the cards is a new crankset to replace this Samox set which is also not exactly perfect (ring isn't totally round). Maybe SRAM Rival 1 to match the rest of the groupset. Tomorrow is payday, but I'm hoping to book flights for a bike tour instead of blowing more money on this.

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Please make your pics great again ! So dull !

New Gipiemme Cranks

Hé ben voilà !

Samox set which is also not exactly perfect (ring isn't totally round).

I had exactly the same experience, which was more annoying on a single speed

Finally finished this up the other day having spent months trying to get stuff sorted for it, the frame is a '69 Special CNC built for the USSR track team with original Campag pista bb and Stronglight headset which I then built up mostly with njs bits to hopefully avoid breaking anything as I have a habit of doing, layback bars are Mavic tt bars flipped round for when I wanna see where I'm going

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Ha! Oh dear. Typical build cheaping out on a crankset. Couldn't even figure out what they were until I looked up the shop spec.

650b'd my Equilibrium. 38mm G-One Speeds, tubeless on Crests. Hope RX4 calipers are new too, and an 11-32 cassette.

Nice

Alain Michel lopro

As always: beautiful, interesting bikes Gaston.

What sort of front brake are you putting on it?

Looks great! How's the ride?

Nimble and sprightly, the road really comes alive.

At least that's what I got from going up and down the road, proper test over the weekend.

Very nice.