Current Projects chat and miscellany

This*

*Although Joe did say they're only temporary

My comment wasn't a pop at Joe (I've done that elsewhere) but more for the benefit of Borntoolate, scorch and Mr Smyth.

Joey baby, your Colnago is top, you do need some proper gumwall action to complete the package, the tyres look fat without the gumwall!

TNRC soon.

You're doing a LFGSS ride?!??!?!

Joe if you do a TNRC with shit old tyres and puncture I'll laugh and ride on :blowsraspberry:

New old bitsa beater finally finished. Thanks to hartxander for the frame, number6 for the sprog, and a gent in abbots for welding the fork. All other bits salvaged from the garage.

Beaters are supposed to look rubbish!

+1, a chrome beater? you're making us look bad

definitely one of the nicest beaters i've seen!

Rode the Mercian to work today thinking I'd finished it only for the jokers I work with to add the final part while I was having a cuppa.

Makes a great noise however so will at least ride home with it and use it to scare peds and nodders. If you see me this evening give me a wave and I'll give you a toot!

that so called "beater" is awesome! top marks

almost there!

Ha! Yeah, get ride of the horn and the silly top tube protector and it'll be lovely.

@ Rob

This is the Holdsworth I'm working on.

Spec is:
1967 shop special Holdsworth frame
System ex hubs laced to destickered Open Sports
Campag headset
Campag GS crankset
Laprade fluted seatpost
Brooks b17
GB chromed stem
Sakae road bars

Need to ditch the modern brake hood wrap the bars in leather
Got some Panaracer tyres coming later

Should look nice.
Watch the classifieds, I haven't got enough money to keep hold of this one :(

almost there!

Has the groupset arrived? :]

New thing nearly finished.
Wheels. bars, chainset and other junk is straight off the roberts. Early 70's Wes Mason frame courtesy of TheBonk.
Just waiting for some brown cloth velox tape to arrive and change the tyres so something more appropriate and it's done until I can afford some harden hubs and maybe replace brak with an old mafac.

haconb ... great... except for the suicide lever.

Upstart... lovely Mercian! Please take that bike inside where it will be safe, or get another U lock not that crappy cable. Or use tynan's paste (tm) when locking up.

That's pretty nice ed.^^

Scorch is roght.
@skully, the naswer to your logo question is of course, the scourge of the West End... wankers who work in marketing!

Haha I knew that would get you going. I liked the old typography of the the Veloflex. If that makes me a cunt then so be it.

Upstart... lovely Mercian! Please take that bike inside where it will be safe, or get another U lock not that crappy cable. Or use tynan's paste (tm) when locking up.

Thanks! Was only briefly outside my office - tucked up inside now :)

Cheers guys, was the first frame I could find that would take 27s when my old vindec frame and forks snapped.
Haha sorry about the suicide lever but it ain't coming off unless i find one in a skip!

That Romulus is gorgeous. I absolutely LOVE Rivendells! look on Flickr.com/groups/rivenedll_bicycles

Stupidly happy with the Mason, goes like fuck, looks a little crude up close but weighs nothing, position feels nice and only about half an inch of toe overlap to worry about. Think im gonna keep the goldbrak for the time being as it matches the decal. Will hopefully get another set of bars/stem and finally go to HH.

New old bitsa beater finally finished. Thanks to hartxander for the frame, number6 for the sprog, and a gent in abbots for welding the fork. All other bits salvaged from the garage.

what frame is that?

would rather have a black tyre that gripped well, had decent puncture protection and good ride quality than one with sidewalls the colour of a 70 year old naturists withered penis.

I'd rather stretch my foreskin around the rim than get all black Contis.

uh-huh