Names and faces to bikes

That's what my girlfriend said that time I nearly drowned in the bath.

Yep, rattle canned at home - the original rim was a DT Swiss RR 1.1 - which was sort of black but I am not sure whether it was anodized or paint ?

Anyhow you need to sand the surface to give the primer a mechanical grip.

Looks like you did the whole thing - eyelets and all? Was that a problem when building it up? Did you mask anything?

It’s a Dave Yates with Joe Waugh decals on it. Proper Geordie like, if a bit of a puppy killing conversion, still not convinced by the bull horns, but I am liking the way they have a bit of flex to ‘em - but I can see the plug comparisons. S’going to go back to geared if I ever sort out the Mercian cycle to work scheme thing.

It’s a Dave Yates with Joe Waugh decals on it. Proper Geordie like, if a bit of a puppy killing conversion

:D

a PKC then.

Looks like you did the whole thing - eyelets and all? Was that a problem when building it up? Did you mask anything?

Masked nowt. But I do photograph everything.

Strung the bastard up and sprayed it - I got Condor's monkies to lace it up to the hub - there was a little bit of microscopic chipping around a few of the eyelets.

I did consider masking the eyelets, but couldn't come up with any clever way of doing them - so I didn't bother.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/4787/flurorimzf9.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwzhoMSA_jo

Pull up to the bumper, baby!!!

Voila....plenty brown...:)
I know you think brklyns are ugly....but i love this bike...:)

Thats much much better ! No, what I said was that KW bike was boring (which it is - I just had the pictures tested) - that Brown BMW is infinitely better, gold + brown + black works.

KW's green+black looks boring.

You lose points though for having the rims the same colour. :)

looked better with the gold risers, what da heck are the new ones?

I love my matching brown rims too...:)

Ear rims ?

murtle you made my day posting Slave to the Rhythm. Bonkers.

I love that bike!

turd-tastic!

BMW Gangstas are the absolute shizznit!

Masked nowt. But I do photograph everything.

Strung the bastard up and sprayed it - I got Condor's monkies to lace it up to the hub - there was a little bit of microscopic chipping around a few of the eyelets.

I did consider masking the eyelets, but couldn't come up with any clever way of doing them - so I didn't bother.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/4787/flurorimzf9.jpg

could you have blu tacked the eyelet and then run a scalpel round the bottom? my brainless effort.

could you have blu tacked the eyelet and then run a scalpel round the bottom? my brainless effort.

That's about as good as my ideas got too ! :)

Scapel through blu-tack = messy !

tynan has no face.

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That's about as good as my ideas got too ! :)

Scapel through blu-tack = messy !

I'd consider getting some of those little coloured dot stickers, theres probably a size that would sit on top of the eyelet and stop paint getting inside to the contact surface. It wouldnt be perfect though.

tynan has no face.

edit. Oops, slightly out of context now...

Come on Tynan show us a pic of your face???

Hi everyone
I try to get out as much as I can but a rarer spot on the streets of London than most of you i'm sure.
North London at the mo, be moving to Dalston soon (by summer i hope).
Hope you like my bike as much as I do!
http://www.londonfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=27&pictureid=81
http://www.londonfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=25&pictureid=69

nice bike
you have shorter legs than sano

yep, cool as a motherfncker.

I'm the stupid looking one on the left

J4mmd, I love your Mercian dude... The paintwork is beautiful...
BTW Is that a tube protector on your downtube? Do you need it there? If not, I'll have it off ya! :)