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  • it's all the rage.
    it'll be all about the penny farthings this time next year.

  • 750 front FTW...

  • I found this pic on FGG and I would like us to have a frank and upfront discussion folks: Is having deep V's on one wheel and not the other a bit off or does it give the bike a bit of pizzazz?

  • Very pengy

  • That bike has far too slack geometry to carry off any deep section rims, let alone just one. Fugly

  • it's just a shit conversion with generic hipster parts.

  • That bike has far too slack geometry to carry off any deep section rims, let alone just one. Fugly

    Mercifulhour sure if t'was any longer it'd be late... bedad!

  • It's here!
    Just switched the bar tape.
    Not sure about the tyres either.
    Master Olympic Decor with full DA. (On a Colnago!!!?)
    :-)))))))))

  • If you're really worried about rust, just do an oxalic acid bath...and framesave it. that will remove 99.99% of the rust and prevent rust from happening again...and be 10x cheaper and probably offer more protection than powdercoating since powdercoating doesnt actually treat/remove the rust...it just covers up the problem. you wont have to tarck up your vintage frame and ruin a sweet, original paint job...

    http://www.vintagebmx.com/community/index.php?showtopic=4004702
    http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=538284&highlight=oxalic+acid

    on old steel wheels:

    before

    after

    OLO, have you used an oxalic acid bath? any tips? were these your rims? the results of the first link were very impressive. how do i get my hands on some oxalic acid?

  • Eddie[/quote]

    very nice classy build, Eddie, are you not putting on original seat or chain guard? or were they damaged?

  • It's here!
    Just switched the bar tape.
    Not sure about the tyres either.
    Master Olympic Decor with full DA. (On a Colnago!!!?)
    :-)))))))))

    My fucking god. Awsome.

  • what the fuck henry! you're mental.

    no, just bored and can't visualise things without actually building them.
    So thought it was the best way around things.
    Waiting for Planet X to confirm my order.
    apparently they've got some issues, but i'm in no rush.
    Got the omega 19s in the front room (thanks Jammy- lovely)
    FIR SG30s are via hilarystone
    Omega V via campyoldy
    spokes arrived today, even though I ordered them yesterday from Cyclebasket.
    just gotta wait now, and the Geek might reappear in the front room (workshop space) soon.
    Thinking- nitto stem, and new pursuit bars- build it up as a TT monster.
    (after selling the wheelsets I'm not going to use).

    @ TODD, lovely.
    leave it DA, much cooler that way.

  • [quote=Superprecise;686912]from this...

    ...to this...

    a crime

  • why does your artists impression have a buttplug hanging from the seat stays?

  • Now THAT is beautiful!

  • Nice, Todd!!!

  • There's a girl in Dublin who Currys on a conversion one of these, it's so beautiful!!

  • very nice classy build, Eddie, are you not putting on original seat or chain guard? or were they damaged?
    ive put the original saddle back now (you can see it in the b+w photos. The chainguard was pretty damaged, bent and cracked.

  • the colnago looks lovely. don't like the anatomics, a set of trad bend bars would look 'right' but everything else looks lush.

    actually thinking about it some white bar tape and the lariest pair of brightly coloured disco slippers would really finish it off :-)

    how much £wedge was it?

  • For some reason this conversion appeals to me. Not because of the aesthetics mind. I like to think of it as a gestural statement on the notion of classics or old masters, like when the Chapman brothers drew clown faces on a stack of Goya drawings, rather than just plain vandalism.

  • i don't think they can be compared.

  • As soon as you compare a bike to an entry for the Turner prize it instantly becomes bullshit.. The fact that the conversion in question was bullshit to begin with is besides my point.

  • For some reason this conversion appeals to me. Not because of the aesthetics mind. I like to think of it as a gestural statement on the notion of classics or old masters, like when the Chapman brothers drew clown faces on a stack of Goya drawings, rather than just plain vandalism.

    u on drugzies ?

  • [quote=ummar01;690178]

    For some reason this conversion appeals to me. Not because of the aesthetics mind. I like to think of it as a gestural statement on the notion of classics or old masters, like when the Chapman brothers drew clown faces on a stack of Goya drawings, rather than just plain vandalism.

    Ummar your augment if flawed. they destroyed art that was all ready challenging descriptions of hell, to make work that will no longer have relevance in 100 years time, unlike the original Goyas, that will still have power.
    the Chapman brothers are just average sensationalists sucking on the teat of Saatchi. the bike was beautiful.........it is now a unipac wannabe.

  • I just think that if someone is going to rape an old frame like that they either don't know / value what they have, or they do and they just don't give a fuck.

    It's much more interesting to think that they don't give a fuck. By completely disregarding norms of good taste and lacking any desire to preserve something for prosperity; the owner is saying something about his own mortality. Just a thought.

    Or he's just an idiot, and I should stop trying to find someway of justifying him......

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