Current Projects chat and miscellany

Henry & Dylan - Out tonight?

changed everything on that bike Max - dunno, didn't think about it until now

Oh yeah, I've got a road bike too now! Cannondale Team Comp '87.

Groupset is a mixture of Shimano 600 tricolor/Ultegra & Shimano 105.
It's even got Biopace chainrings!

Changes in near future:
Black hoods.
Bolt on skewers instead of QR.
Swap the 105 headset for the Chris King on the track bike.
Swap out the crank bolts & dustcaps for 8mm jobbies (got em in my pocket)
Clean up rusty bolts.

Changes in not so near future:
Full DA 7400 group.
STI shifters.
Carbon fork/Ahead stem (got the converter for my CK headset)

I seriously love this bike. Special thanks to Pistoffski for nabbing it off eBay.

max- nah man, spending all of today on an aerojet coming back to blighty.
See you monday- Last drinks for a while for me?

Put Campagnolo non-aero brake levers on my Pinarello. Now ready for L'Eroica. Not that I'm going to do it.

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tighten the downtube lever ? i can see you can do that with your fingers. try it.

Yeah, sorted now, thanks. Bit amateur hour that ;)

All sorted until I go clipless now

Oh yeah, I've got a road bike too now! Cannondale Team Comp '87... I seriously love this bike. Special thanks to Pistoffski for nabbing it off eBay.

Full DA group would be amazing, looks schweet.
was this off the american ebay? If so, did you you have to pay customs?

Thanks. It's off British eBay, item was in Waterlooville (yeah I know... WTF?)

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@maxcrowe: glad to see your c'dale back in the original color!

That's an old photo. :-) It won't be long until its back to that state, though.

but i can see blue :)

Must be one fuck of a reach down to those downtube levers for you max

It's not too bad at all!

Maybe for anyone else, but not him.

That's lovely! Have you ridden it yet? What do you use it for?

Cheers,

Mike

Hey all, new on here, but thought I might throw up a picture of my latest bike just to test the water! It's a mid 80's Peugeot which i bought for £20 in a fine state off ebay for a daft MTB challenge. Got me around Llandegla MTB blue course with gears and now it's resprayed courtesy of Halfords and fixed. Plus I wanted to test whether I could post a pic, so here go's!

good effort, nice to see a bike that didn't cost much and still looks cracking. get some foot retention and maybe some grip near the brake lever (unless you dont really use it), and i'm a fan

looking good

Cheers, it now has toeclips n straps although I can't get used to them again after years of spd's. Found a pic from the challenge below. Cost a bit for parts (ebaytastic) and some new rims and spokes to rebuild the wheels, but good fun all the same.

So you got round on a road bike? The BMX I get, but a road bike?!

Good work.

Pointless, but good.

found this old batavus race frame in dumpster today... the frame is way to big for me, maybe gonna try to sell it (make build than sell it) ? bigger resolution: http://foundbikes.posterous.com/batavus-course-for-sale

measure it.

measure it twice.

then sell it for a tenner or twenty.

a few new addidtions to my collection
a couple of " projects " and some fully finished

my gazelle champion mondial aa special 100th anniversary road bike with athena gruppo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45408566@N05/4973921794/

giant cadex MTB mate found it on the street exage white grouppo nice rear wish bone stay bonded aluminium tubing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45408566@N05/4973921774/

carlton carrera road bike
now breaking full shimano golden arrow gruppo for sale and 531c frame also for sale shortly
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45408566@N05/4973904866/

my viking severn valley beater bit bashed around but nice deep patina to the cherry red paint converting to nice canal path bike with mudguards for wet weather action
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45408566@N05/4973904846/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45408566@N05/4973904840/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45408566@N05/4973277939/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45408566@N05/4973277925/

and finally a very recent purchase of an overbury pioneer MTB full deore XT gruppo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45408566@N05/4973277925/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45408566@N05/4973880380/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45408566@N05/4973876646/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45408566@N05/4973876640/in/photostream/

Put Campagnolo non-aero brake levers on my Pinarello. Now ready for L'Eroica. Not that I'm going to do it.

That looked like Pisti's for a second.
Very nice.