• 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.

  • thinking that my stuff wasn’t going to fit in

    not fitting in is the dream

  • The track bike looks incredible! Really nice work :)

  • 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.

  • Some snaps of my track bike.

    Got a ride on it today and I'm very happy with it.


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  • Wow. Love it

  • Amazing work!

  • awesome, did you buy the surly ends from somewhere? or cut them out of a frame?

  • 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.

  • Yasss amazing

  • Skinny is the new OS, looks great.

  • ah nice one ok was wondering

  • Mentioned on The Radavist. You've made it

    https://theradavist.com/2021/11/2021-bespoked-uk-2/

  • All the bikes on the booth were painted in ‘Spray.bike’

    I thought montana was your jam Ande?

  • Montana is my Jam too...Spray bike is too thicc and powdercoaty. Ew.

  • 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.

  • Agreed. I wasn’t best impressed.

    Easily some of the best bikes at the show.

    Spray bike is terrible powdery stuff

  • Love those handlebars! Great work!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7W1NpG-LgI

    Any updates on your own builds or maybe some new projects?

  • Just watched that. My ears pricked up when he mentioned you.

    Infamy!

  • Doing bespoked this year?

  • 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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  • Hey @M_V if I recall correctly, you were once thinking of drilling out the canti studs on your old pompino and replacing with the removable type studs. Did you ever try this and if so how did it go? I was thinking about doing the same thing.

  • 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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