Names and faces to bikes

dogsballs did you buy it off 'Build - username' on this site? ;)

ah i see, misunderstood sorry, i'm new here.
nope, i got it from my dad, it was sort of going spare.

well, there is an identical twin of yours on here ;) (the frame anyway)

dogsballs well, there is an identical twin of yours on here ;) (the frame anyway)

really?? what frame is it? and where can i see a pic of it?

on this thread somewhere, a couple pages up

ah, found it Jake

dogsballs ah, found it Jake

yeh, kind of similar, alot of old british track frames seem to look alike, looks very nice tho. the seat stays and fork crown look different but then there were plenty of options on these sort of things. do you know who built this? i've been trying to find out who built mine but with no luch so far.

IRLeo [quote]dogsballs ah, found it Jake

yeh, kind of similar, alot of old british track frames seem to look alike, looks very nice tho. the seat stays and fork crown look different but then there were plenty of options on these sort of things. do you know who built this? i've been trying to find out who built mine but with no luch so far.[/quote]
Hey hey, think it's a Roberts, but thats pretty rough really, don't really know whose it is. Are your TT/Downtube/seat stays lugged and brazed directly to the seat stays? I dunno what thats called, where theres no join between the lug and tube... I wanna say fillet...

I'm not sure that mine is a Roberts, the bike just above could well be. i suspect mine was built somewhere more northern, my Dad got it in Leicester and was told it was a Mercian, but it isn't. Anyway, I'm not too fussed who built it, its a pretty sweet frame, still it would be cool to know for sure.
The seat stays are wrap around or half wrap around. Here is a link to fgg when my Dad listed it, he put up some close ups of the lugs and seat cluster.

http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2005/july/Andy.Polakowski@Virgin.Net.htm#image_1

Right, recently (yesterday) finished my new bike. Will post a picture of that at a sensible time tomorrow. Here is a picture of me and the Armstrong. this was the closest it got to being finished. :(

Mum's shoes?

Dad's pants?

Tommy Cooper's hat?

what happened to the armstrong?
oh and someones something!

That's some clearance on the front wheel....

What's the rim?

deep v with fatlace vinyl came from mush

nice leg

Platini That's some clearance on the front wheel....

Mudguard clearance. Great things, mudguards. Shame the bike never got finished. Why not, asm?

They're my hat and my pants! But my flatmate's shoes.

The bike never got finished because I found a 120 mm spaced phil wood rear hub really cheap, and that bike has 110 rear dropouts. and the frame only cost me £20 to start off with. Also i don't think it'd suit deep Vs and fatlaced cxp33's!

Still have the frame though, with a freshly re-greased headset. :) Oh yeah, photo of the bike...

Picture taken with my macbook webcam, hence quality. Need to raise seatpost half an inch and chop an inch or so off the steerer.

big daddy wayne do they taste like golden grahams?

grahams showers do taste golden, yes, lovely and golden

what frame is that asm?

alf webb cowers

did it come with this crank?

that makes me sick.

I bought the frame and forks only, mainly for the insane finish. Didn't really look that hard at the parts, are they shit? Mine has sugino RDs in black.

finally got round to chopping and taping the bars,
so here she is in her more or less target form, give or
take some messing about with the wheels.
sadly the matching back tyre popped a few weeks
ago so I'm on a (much cheaper) conti giro until I
can get a clincher rim sorted out.