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• #1402
thinking that my stuff wasn’t going to fit in
not fitting in is the dream
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• #1403
The track bike looks incredible! Really nice work :)
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• #1404
Was looking at pictures of jazzy bicycles earlier (obviously) & just noticed who the owner of the candle-holder equipped bike is, uncle John & whitelock remain one of my all time favourite bands, had a right few cracking nights out at their gigs! Probably a natural progression from riding a coffin mounted with skateboard hardware on stage actually now I think about it.
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• #1405
Some snaps of my track bike.
Got a ride on it today and I'm very happy with it.
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• #1406
More photos...
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• #1407
Last few for now...
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• #1408
Wow. Love it
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• #1409
Amazing work!
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• #1410
awesome, did you buy the surly ends from somewhere? or cut them out of a frame?
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• #1411
Found them on ebay, hadn't been built before. Same deal on the lugs and fork crown. Doubt Cinelli or Surly ever intended these parts to make it to the hands of third party builders but here we are.
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• #1412
Yasss amazing
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• #1413
Skinny is the new OS, looks great.
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• #1414
ah nice one ok was wondering
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• #1415
Mentioned on The Radavist. You've made it
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• #1416
All the bikes on the booth were painted in ‘Spray.bike’
I thought montana was your jam Ande?
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• #1417
Montana is my Jam too...Spray bike is too thicc and powdercoaty. Ew.
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• #1418
Meh, I wasn't too happy with the write up, seemed like it was pretty full of backhanded compliments if you know what I mean, "shoddy charms" and "not here to win any brazing contests" etc.
It was exactly that kind of snobbery I expected to be far more rife at Bespoked.
Also yeah, as @MCamb says, there wasn't a drop of Spray.bike in my booth, Montana all round.
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• #1419
Agreed. I wasn’t best impressed.
Easily some of the best bikes at the show.
Spray bike is terrible powdery stuff
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• #1420
Love those handlebars! Great work!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7W1NpG-LgI
Any updates on your own builds or maybe some new projects?
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• #1421
Just watched that. My ears pricked up when he mentioned you.
Infamy!
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• #1422
Doing bespoked this year?
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• #1423
Hey, thanks. Been looking forward to that video coming out.
I’m terrible at updating this thread.
I’ve been mostly doing repairs and disc tabs and stuff recently.
Umm…
I brought my raw steel track bike home from living at the velodrome, built it some nice new wheels with DT Swiss hubs and rims and put it together for summer road use.
It started rusting a little so I painted it.
I have to admit though that I’ve barely ridden it. Maybe three or four times.
I’m not sure if it’s too small for me or just too aggressive a drop (which won’t get any better when I take it back to the track and have to ride it in the drops).
I did 30 miles on it the other week there and it killed me.
I have a frame to repair that might replace it…
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• #1425
I’ve been chopping and changing my mtb a bit.
I had the Kona Unit which I then tried fixed but decided soon after that to sell it, probably a poor decision thinking about it now.
I built a retro GT Pantera and enjoyed having a mtb with gears but got frustrated at the poor tyre clearance at the back so it’s gone too now.
Currently I have a Genesis Latitude that I’ve given a klunker style 2nd top tube and a funky crackle paint job but I dunno about it.
I think I’m going to build something which I’ll talk about it in a minute that will make the Genesis pretty redundant.
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Cheers all for the kind comments.
I was stressing a bit on the run up to the show thinking that my stuff wasn’t going to fit in and it hasn’t but in such a good way!
It’s been interesting talking to people. Someone thought I’d invented a new kind of super skinny headtube, I was like, nah that’s just 1”! They were so used to looking at the tapered headtubes on like 95% of bikes at the show that 1” looked tiny in comparison.