You are reading a single comment by @Wingedangel and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@Wingedangel
these are the from the last 4 weeks,..though the lemond took ages as my mate was faffing as to what he wanted, which is all irrelevent as it got pinched 4 days after I delivered it too him,..if anyone sees it...please let me know the approx area (it was stolen in waterloo) and my friend who is rather large will try and get it back, he's not a happy man. I know the chain is horrible..I just build them! though I do get to advise...to no avail...;D
next up an easy single speed for LTR on here, has andel cranks (48/17), flite saddle, ambrosio stem, mks pedals, rides nice, looks pretty reasonable and no puppies were killed...he was riding a fucking horrible creaky hybrid, so now when he peddles, he can stop and rollll....he's over the moon..
thirdly a 50's claud butler gran sport with Gs cranks, bb, and other period bits on for a friend of aleksander on here. it would have had gs brakes...but for the brake drop...which didn't want to play, so it had centre pulls which look good with the drop (thanks to Retro di corsa for last minute brake spares!!). As she is little I geared it really low (42/20) and found a beautiful 50's regina freewheel, with really loud ratchets and springs so sounded lush. its reasonably small though tracked like it was on rails, a really lovely ride.
this week is condor...it came with a dura ace headset (needed grease and balls) the njs 7400 bottom bracket had been fitted without the plastic sleeve, so was seized with rusty dead races and chewed bearings, the shaft also as pitted as fuck...wihch was a shaaamme..looked healthy from outside...oh well, it now has ultegra cups and a sugino strong 103 shaft.
and can't wait to finish it...it will be wearing some not soo nice components as she gathers more money/momentum, though so far it has nitto risers and stem, zenith cranks and will be rideable tmorrow, though i going for a spin tonight, its a nice frame.