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Hi

Sure is won't look like one when it finished though,going to put some nice bits in.

Thought so, there are loads of them around lately, bought one myself but seen a few being ridden. Must be something to do with ribble closing or something.

budda that looks like a decent tricking bike. Looks very tidy ! Nice job.

Is it the same colour, or very similar to your old one ?

budda that looks like a decent tricking bike. Looks very tidy ! Nice job.

Is it the same colour, or very similar to your old one ?

haha, yep same colour as the old one (RAL 5015 I think) but this one's got a metallic flake...i hadn't intended this build as trick-type bike at all but it does kinda look that way! now, just need to learn some tricks ;-)

Thought so, there are loads of them around lately, bought one myself but seen a few being ridden. Must be something to do with ribble closing or something.

Not hears that Ribble are closing.

I just need to cut down the forks now not to sure about the saddle i think a nice honey brooks or charge may look better.

not sure about the "campy" sticker, cutter

Lovely TJ coppiThat! So nice that you have attatchment to it. Now I need to find an early '80s Phil Corley to match my recollections of the local decent bikeshop (in Milton Keynes, in my case).

.... if i did anything it would be getting the lugs lined...

Line fancy lugs, not plain ones. You know it makes sense.

not sure about the "campy" sticker, cutter

It need some sort of graphic don't want to put a dolan one on and i don't want to put Bianchi as it it is not one.

it's 'Campag' murtle!

Colour co-ordination fail

Not hears that Ribble are closing.

Closing the shop but not the online bit.

Colour co-ordination fail

+1

it's 'Campag' murtle!

p1ssoff! never heard of campy oldy?? huh??

Campy oldy :-)

camp oldy

ahhh, don't be hard on yourself Jason!

i was bloody waiting for that. :)

ha!

i was bloody waiting for that. :)

Thanks for making look a cunt by editing your post. Go and change it back while apologising

Campy oldy :-)

That reminds me, I've got some Quavers in the cupboard

Thanks for making me look a cunt by editing your post. Go and change it back while apologising

WTF?? Huh?? etc.......

Quavers are shit.

I'm currently working on this...

it is my first conversion, bought the bike for £25 at a local market, just sourcing parts and trying to get my head around how to actuallyput the thing together.

putting a brake cable on the rear and sorting your chain out. job done

more details to follow, i am happy though.

and these are the campagnolo and cinelli bits i have been collecting from here and there in anticipation of a frame like this. it was coincidental that the bar tape was yellow :-) i have a pista chainset also but it has gone missing :-( not lost forever,,,, just missing temporarily. the blue is slightly darker than in the picture. a respray maybe one day but i'm in no hurry to do that.

Many years ago (more than ten) when i lived in forest hill on my way home from school i would sometimes walk along stanstead road and stop in TJQ cycles and look at the pictures on the walls and the handbuilt frames and wheels hanging awaiting collection and marvel at how smart they all looked. tommy quick the owner always had time to say hello and with braizing/welding googles or mask still perched on his forehead would take a break and pass away ten minutes or so telling cycling stories and litte problems he had with builds or things he was going to do to frames. i didnt for a second ever think that i would own one of his frames only because i was young and benotto and colnago and gios frames were more attractive with their colours and transfers and winning riders in the cycling weekly. the shop had a double front as i remember it with large knee to ceiling windows. the frame building was done out the back in his workshop down maybe three of four steps.
the old shop closed down many years ago and became a few things maybe a junk shop and a hairdressers and something else before the entire block was totally redeveloped. the other shops in the block were a news agent and on the very corner there was a petrol station, there was another shop but i cannot for the life of me remember what that was. suprise suprise it's now a new build block of flats. looking at it you would not know that a cycle shop or a shop of any kind was ever there. even though this frame wasnt made specifically for me dimension wise i think and hope its going to be alright bordering on perfect(so i can tick that box) but mostly it feels good having one of his frames and thinking back to being in the shop as a kid and hearing his stories.

you make me cry....