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GideonPARANOID
I bought this frame when I first moved to London, and I'm ashamed to say it's had a hard life. Steel road frames in London during the mid 2000's often got butchered and converted into fixie whipskidders, carelessly locked up around the mean streets of Shoreditch - this one was no different. Skids all over the place, so many skids in fact, that I actually broke one of the chainstays. It got fixed by Ted at some point, respaced for track hubs, and when asked if I wanted all the braze-ons removed, thankfully my conscience got the better of me and I said no.
Thank fuck. Because I've decided to mangle it into another horrible bastardisation of a bike, this time at least slightly closer to what its creator originally intended. The plan is as modern a groupset I can get my hands on for as little money as possible, the more incongruous the better, and the widest alloy wheels the chainstays will allow.