fks Splat's That (some Kuwaharas etc)

Looking great this. I think it's going to age really well as well.

What's the spacer? A piece of lacquered steel tube?

We'll see - literally no idea.

Yeah it's one I borrowed from one of bikes at Stayer HQ (thanks/sorry), it's not laquered so will 'age' too...

How resilient is the copper coating? Can't you just let it do its thing for a bit then break the autosol out?

It's on pretty thick - so yeah, that would probably work

Your bike made it to singletrack homepage.

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Cute! Thanks for the heads up

Typical clickbait putting your bike there. I didn't open the link but it's something about winning a bespoke bike?

Ha yeah - so this bike has been donated to the Ultra Distance Scholarship.

It's being 'not raffled' - can win it for a fiver a ticket.

some of the bespoked studio shots - Adam Gasson took these

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Also - if you were, say, willing and able to chuck in a small donation to the Ultra Distance Scholarship in exchange for a chance to win the thing... the link is here

Kind of hoping someone I know wins it, so I can have a go.

Although at the same time it'd be like bumping into an ex or something.

slightly more humble progress

quick mock up of that old rockhopper

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This is going to be proper fantastic, love this paint job a lot!

It’s perfect 😯

More brown bikes.

Cheers, yeah I'm pretty chuffed with how it came out

Really good already! The first bike I've seen in ages with a colour matched stem that I actually like.

that looks rather splendid.

Looks sick! Where did you find the OEM version (white logos) Maxxis tires?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265886538504

Thanks. :-)
Only 26 x 2.3" unfortunately. I'm looking for the 2.15" version.

also realised after building and binning off both the Big Bro and Singular, not to mention having the Stayer cruelly slip through my grasp, I do probably, definitely want a cheap, fun 29er.

I have it on good authority that, underneath it all, these are quite fun.

It's quite rough, the hub gear is weird, there are a couple of little dings. BB7s are probably fine.

Plan is to strip the paint, maybe leave it raw, build it back up as a slightly better version of itself.

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Plan is to strip the paint

Nooo! Love a green bike.

Same - just nor this green

Always liked these!! Looking forward to it..