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Here it is,
Garden was lookin nice that day, so was hard to avoid getting a few blossoms in shot, plus my brothers scooter was in the way.
If I remember correctly, I got the frame, forks, stem, bars, 105 headset, stronglight cranks, and a beaten up 5 speed rear wheel for £30
I was quite pleased at the time, but then a couple of weeks later I saw a guy buy a record with 100% of the original flashy gold parts, for £15 so I was pretty annoyed!
I got the fixed 27" rear wheel on a different ocassion, it was pretty expensive finding a decent tyre for it.
I was running a dented "egg" shaped front wheel ffor a while which I got for £5!
Then I got a pair of really solid mavic hybrid wheels, which I swapped for a suspension fork with a friend. So im running one of those up front.
Anyway, I was recently toying with the idea of getting a fuji track. But ive decided this is way better, and lugged forks just look class.
My chain tension & gear ratio is perfect and Ive switched the QR for a "safer" bolted axle too.
It makes me happy it does. Ive named it "the duke"