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I suspect you've seen the modern Alex Singer bikes? Real knee rubbers.
Yeah, they’re insanely nice.
As were the short lived René Herse reboot made by Mike Kone and Jan Heine.It’s a shame that so much modern componentry is just fucking ugly imho. Chainsets and mechs especially.
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The TA pro vis seemed too easy. I can't claim the Carmina as my own idea, that was straight from those Alex Singer bikes. I like it though, echoes of period stuff, cranks are a bit chunky. I ordered silver SRAM levers but they were black when they arrived, discontinued long ago apparently, just a dodgy ebay seller with the wrong pics. I stripped the ano and polished them. The gum coloured Hudz hoods are discontinued too, I've stashed another set. I haven't checked recently but a lot of the components on the Singer bikes was ~ 2000, from bitd when it was still polished alloy. Jeez, 2000, bitd.
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That is rather nice^
It’s a shame that so much modern componentry is just fucking ugly imho. Chainsets and mechs especially.
This is so true, it annoys the hell out of me.
veloham
Skülly
Thank you. Yep Nitto post, stem and bars. I spent a lot of time oggling stuff on https://www.tracksupermarket.com/ and when I got this frame it seemed too good an opportunity to miss. The bars are the closest bend I could get to the Reynolds "TT Special" bend - I've got one to go on another build in progress.
Bit of an odd one picking parts for a 90s repro - using period parts seemed wrong and using 90s parts just because it was a 90s bike also seemed off.
I suspect you've seen the modern Alex Singer bikes? Real knee rubbers. http://www.cycles-alex-singer.fr/catalogue.html I wanted to do something like that but for a British fixed gear.