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Thought I'd start a place just to catalogue my bikes really. Some of them are already finished, so will be more of a retrospective look at whats happened with them.
Project 1: Inbred 29er single speed.
Ive had this frame for ages and was about to sell it before I realised I need a ratty bike that I can use for cycling around with my 6 year old daughter. Something that I could leave outside a cafe or shop and not worry too much about it. Right now it's just a frame and a front wheel. I'm thinking very easy gear for potentially doing a bit of ssmtb riding. Will probably get it powder coated a new colour since there is a place near me in Glasgow that does it cheap-ish. Thought about maybe going with drop bars? Since I have a set of 50cm flared bars doing nothing.
Will add photos as I go.
Project 2: S-Works Tarmac SL6 disc cheap* superbike
Ok so cheap might not be the word but compared to the mental 9-12k rrp on the builds its cheap compared to that. Always loved the Tarmac, I had an sl3 years ago but sold it because disc brakes.
Had been looking for a bargain sl6 frameset but I seemed to have missed the boat since they were all sold out on uk/euro sites. Eventually found one with a substantial reduction via a Specialized dealer in Italy.
Still waiting on the frame to arrive. Its in the Chameleon Supernova colour scheme.
Continuing the cheap/bargain theme I have a set of Zipp 303 NSW wheels that I got via the TriUK sale.
Groupset will likely be 11 speed Red Etap that I have from my old bike. This was another bargain bought from bike24 in the sale just before Red axs launched. Tempted to sell the groupset and go 12 speed but thats hard to justify and trying to keep this in the cheap* bracket.
Not sure on finishing kit yet, I have a 3t stem I'll use but probably going to remove the decals.
Project 3: Build a bike around a seatpost?
Bought an S-works seatpost from @snoops thinking I'd use it on a second hand tarmac. Was gonna sell it on but I like it so much I think its worthy of building a bike around it. Suggestions welcome. This will likely be a very long term project...
Project 4: Santa Cruz Nomad 4
This bike is already finished, the plan was to have all raw alu finishing kit. This is largely the case but I need a silver Thomson post and I'm going to remove the anodising from the black cranks and then polish them up to a mirror finish.
The canecreek headset top bearing cover/spacer thing was black and it annoyed me that it clashed with the raw alu stem and spacers. I took a dremel to it last night and polished it up. Pretty rough job on the polishing but satisfying non the less.
Again, I'll get up some photos of the polishing and I'll document the process of polishing the crank arms.
I've done a bit of polishing before, I striped and polished the lowers on a set of mountain bike forks to a pretty decent mirror finish - that was part of project 5.
Project 5: Downhill bike
Another retrospective of my Propain Rage cf bike I bought a couple years ago from the manager of the Propain world cup race team.
Its had a fair bit done to it. will go into more detail later. Not sure there will be much interest in a downhill bike here? But you're getting it anyway.
This thread will just be an evolution of all my bikes. Theres more I'll add in the future.
Photos coming tonight. stay tuned folks...