Current Projects chat and miscellany

Does this count on this thread?

Ok probs not, but it just moved today for the first time in 5 years.

Don't suppose you rent out to forumungers do you? Would be handy at the odd festival i've lined up with the missus!

just got this for my mate and i'm going to change the stem, bar and lever combo. the rest is dura ace and campag record.

terrible news though, shes not keeping the paintwork, which is perfect*. and instead shes powdercoating it mint green. im tempted to tell her the sale fell through just so i dont have to destroy this beauty.

dont judge me, i'm just following orders.

*except for chainstay scratch

who is it? Ill punch her in the mouth if she paints that.

just get the decals back on it. takes some real planning to make a bike look good without decals.

Well its a hack, but its finished and I love it...

Mavic ellipses, 15t cog, new tyres / tubes ordered and red flite all coming my way. My BJ is going to get a bit faster! Pics to follow...

OrganisedViolence, Id like to buy that Romet.

What size is the Romet anyway? This is ridiculous but I'm going to second dibs it anyway. :)

Funnily enough i may be selling it in a couple of weeks, the toe overlap is really annoying, although i'm gonna keep trying for a little while

noice

Glad to see she's gone to a good home... Tho' I don't think you needed another bike, James... ;x

Dont think I'll do a Jammy and post every photo but here's the headtube of my custom feather. Pretty stoked so far...

terrible news though, shes not keeping the paintwork, which is perfect*. and instead shes powdercoating it mint green. im tempted to tell her the sale fell through just so i dont have to destroy this beauty.

she and every girls in London, every now and then I see pastel green bike.

Trip is kinda glad her got stolen in a way.

That's crazy talk, Edward...

who is it? Ill punch her in the mouth if she paints that.

it's hannah j, muppet

just get the decals back on it. takes some real planning to make a bike look good without decals.

yeah i was thinking that, but i remember someone (fruit? maybe, cant remember) rebuilding a diamant and having real trouble finding decals. if anyone remembers who it was i'd love to ask them about it

Decal-less bikes are therefore cooler. if a bike is so gorgeous it still looks good without them, it raises the bar for everyone else.
A now-dead mate used to polish the decals of components, black them out on tyres, and even ordered a Carradice bag sans label. That was more a political gesture than an aesthetic one though, cos he painted his Flying gate yellow!
I'm gradually cutting down on decals, and no longer add them on resprays - cept the old "Guaranteed built with..." of course! No-brand is the new brand.

Centaur short cage derailieur, 10spd cassette, amboriso hubs and Araya track rims for the Colnago, it's the skinnest and lightest box section rims I can find frankly;

yeah i was thinking that, but i remember someone (fruit? maybe, cant remember) rebuilding a diamant and having real trouble finding decals. if anyone remembers who it was i'd love to ask them about it

superprecise has/had one
http://www.lfgss.com/thread22159-2.html#post779742

i d love to get new decals as well, mine is now stickered up as a colnago (because it has colnagocloverlugs) but i d like some black diamant decals on it.

Centaur short cage derailieur, 10spd cassette, amboriso hubs and Araya track rims for the Colnago, it's the skinnest and lightest box section rims I can find frankly;

Track rim and you will be using brakes?

Presumably they have no braking surface and are not built for brakes (wall thickness) which may be why they are light, in the same way MTB disc rims are lighter than the version for rim brakes.

Just make sure you don't use your brakes much :-)

Track rim and you will be using brakes?

Presumably they have no braking surface and are not built for brakes (wall thickness) which may be why they are light, in the same way MTB disc rims are lighter than the version for rim brakes.

Just make sure you don't use your brakes much :-)

ed, the araya track rims is a stupid idea.
just as kerley says.

ed know's all!!

They are road racing rims.

Some people buy them because they vaguely resemble Araya NJS tubular rims.

I got hold of a pair of wheels with Mavic CXP 10 rims that are built up onto road hubs with gears (i.e. running brakes on them). Does anyone know if they are meant to be run with brakes on them? They don't have an obvious braking rim and aren't machined at all. Also, Mavic don't make them anymore so I'm finding it a little hard to find out info about them.

http://static.lfgss.com/attachments/22332d1268314354-picture-039.jpg
(This isn't a pic of one of the actual rims, but this is what they look like - worn from braking.)

*sorry about the massive picture

They don't have an obvious braking rim and aren't machined at all.

That's how all rims were back in the olden days. Machined brake tracks are a relatively modern invention.

My Colnago is finished (thanks, Jimbilly), just ridden it into work...

Fucking... Amazing...

I'll post a pic in a minute...

Hurry up you cunt, the suspense is killin me!

Congrats!