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• #27277
That is fugly! Looks like plain sheet metal.
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• #27278
I'm curious. How do you inflate a HED3 with a track pump?
Do you use a special vale to allow you to fix the large head of a track pump on that or what.
I realise this is a numpty question, but I've not owned a tri-spoke before and that hole just looks too small. My only ever experience of riding a disc or tri-spoke was borrowing someone else's for a TT and being blown all over the place.
You need a "crack pipe". First one is a Silca, second is a Hirame which I stumbled upon when searching for Hirame frames, $70 from http://www.benscycle.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=4576&zenid=d2556c588ccf1861385021468b98236e WANT!!!
Could use one of those fabric extension things you get on the old cheap frame pumps.
On my HED3 the valve is actually angled out slightly so the attachment on my track pump has more than enough room to fit on the valve.
Will see if I can find a photo...
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• #27279
I retract my previous comment, this is actually much nicer looking than that VO chain case
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• #27282
Halfords special at £1.99
Doesn't work with a track pump, which was the original stipulation.
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• #27283
Doesn't work with a track pump, which was the original stipulation.
Fair enough, works with my track pump but then it's a bit of a blast from the past with a screw adaptor.
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• #27284
ok i disgree with you, but i can see how the flatness of it is sort of.... well, flat... but i like it.
anyone know of a better retrofitting full chaincase? or even just another one?
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• #27285
Crap photo, lovely bike:
all concorde frames i've seen so far (including my own) look nice, simple and straight,
but they didn't seem to have someone who could pull off a nice paintjob,
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• #27286
Congratulations, Dwayne. Looks amazing.
Beautiful, bar the black stem. ;-)
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• #27287
That might be how the owner has been riding it, but it isn't porn with the stem hanging that far out of the steerer. Maybe even an extended head tube would look better if he insisted on a classical horizontal top tube + horizontal stem extension. I'm not in love with the Brooks on what is ostensibly a racing bike, either. Potentially tasty bike ruined by poor presentation.
ha! i literarily thought the same in that case, pfff!
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• #27288
Beautiful, bar the black stem. ;-)
or black bartape, fizik or even leather could do the same.
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• #27289
Beautiful, bar the black stem. ;-)
+1
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• #27291
^Geometry Fail. (not epic fail, but its not porn).
Heres a few WINs from the guys that bring us Honjo fenders:
more: http://www.jitensha.com/eng/varella_toei.html
more: http://www.jitensha.com/eng/Watanabe-demont.htmlIf they are a re-post then I think its deserved. If its not, then, yay.
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• #27292
I don't like the fork rake but this is awesome:
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• #27293
altogether a little odd.
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• #27294
I wouldn't have the eyelets myself but the frame was custom and the customer wanted them there so they could use steel mudguards.
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• #27295
That shade of pink looks so good with all black parts. Great looking off road machine, I think.
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• #27296
I know it's the angle of the photo, but it bug me that it look like the fork is bent.
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• #27297
Normally a Surly frameset wouldn't be seen here, but that colour is simply lovely;
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• #27298
That Allure is the bike of one of my friends. Paint jobs need to get a little used to, but overall the frame is really well finished. Nice details, great geometry, sweet materials (Columbus Nemo).
He got it from Kor himself indeed ;)
Do you know more about Henk Paas btw? Allurefietsen.nl doesn't seem to work anymore...
Yes, I know Henk Paas.
Raced with him since 1979. When I rode my first crit, he was so kind to lend me his track pump.
He raced a couple of years (not too successful) and after that he became a mechanic for the Dutch national federation. Later (or at the same time) he built road frames. I think the last frames carried the name Allure, but he built quite some frames without names or names of dealers.
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• #27299
i dont get all this embeding of photos and that. but heres a website and i erge all to view it
just ammend that
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• #27300
Congratulations, Dwayne. Looks amazing.