Current Projects chat and miscellany

Rarely do I get jelly, but now I am, in fact, very jelly. :) Make a project thread for this plz!

Tangerine dream

I will unbolt random stuff from a specialized rockhopper and put on it. Not fancy, not period correct.
@Sig_Arlecchino sounds intriguing, and then find a neon turbo saddle. But will go with the rusty Moto bars plus BMX stem I have.

Can’t go wrong with the bmx/moto setup I reckon. If you change your mind, let me know.

Paint is even better in real life!
Now it gets the rust proof/polish treatment and then the parts from the rockhopper.
Rockhopper never got me excited and has annoying canti boss spacing.

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DIBS Rockhopper ;)

Looking snazzy!

Kottbuser Damm!

Müllerstraße!

Got to do some Berlincosmos beers soon, I'm missing being part of bicycle community:)

🌚

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Very good.

Yes, I would be in.
But on rather on Kottbusser Damm and not Müllerstraße...

So if course it has an ita bottom bracket shell.
Also needs black brakes, and those ugly Bontrager cranks are ugly so I will find black LX stuff.

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I could ship it to you!

awful, its cursed, putting flat bars on drop bar gravel bike screams rapha employee

hell yeah

Slow progress on my Karate Monkey

What's gravel? ;)

Very nice. Will it be 1x1, or with gears?

Damn that's funky af

Singlespeed freewheelin‘

Looks like a lot of fun!

Love it!

My ti Merckx got the short straw and did the bulk of the 3800 autmn/winter miles I rode from September to end of December, so ended the year in a sorry state....

The wheel bearings were done for, as was the cassette, chain, brakes pads and cables so I just grabbed another bike and ignored it for the last 5 months.

There are still some good deals to be had on ebay if you are prepared to collect, and I found a nice set of the new wheels. Ambrosio semi deep Focus rims that look decent with the fat ti tubes, laced to some Campag Chorus hubs, with Chorus skewers and a barely used 29-13 10 speed Campag cassette, all for £56! I did have to go to Hanwell to get them but well worth the trip.

And as that blue tape was just to minging to be allowed to continue any further, I got new tape and saddle and some pedals from my parts bin, and I've Belgium'ed up ti Eddy.



And its taken me 5 years of scanning ebay but I've finally managed to get Merckx cages for all 5 of my Merckx bikes, which now all have Eddy 2 cages each :)

When these GP5000's are done for I'll get some gumwall 28c Vittoria Corsa's I think,