Current Projects chat and miscellany

I could make it look nice in the meantime just taken this on the track first ime I have ever ridden a disc felt great I need a tri spoke now and think I will chop the steerer now it feels about right height.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/kingcutter/BIKES/004-1.jpg

Such a sweet frame I likey. Tri spoke or one if those chunk mavic ones?

You worked out how to get the frame to fit comfortably?

A boasting thread? Or the one about foot retention.

It was my first fixed gear and I very quickly realised I needed toe clips. Just after the pic was taken I went and got some.

Don't understand your boasting dig.

@Tenderloin as it is it feels fine rode it for an hour on the track last night and feels ok/
@ Pisstofski cheers james they feel nice on the tops drop is not to deep but I may need to get wider ones .
@malaysian would love a chunk mega money though

Don't understand your boasting dig.

"ooh ooh I got a shiny new bit, must show the world!"

(yes I'm being a hypocrite saying that but you can see my point).

Here's one of my current projects.
I'm building up a fakie for a friend of mine.
Her favourite coulour is blue.. :)

egerognippler by Axelgrinder, on Flickr

kranksæt by Axelgrinder, on Flickr

frempind+kronrør by Axelgrinder, on Flickr

saddelpind by Axelgrinder, on Flickr

Blue hubshell by Axelgrinder, on Flickr

uhhhh Lord, what a project you got there.. what's with the old chainstay??

It had a dent and and I think it was acctually raced with and then cracked...

that BMC is fucking awful. proper fail.

No, but it would be even better to hook it up to a rear calliper since it's there anyway.

Fixed with two brakes is a most underrated set up.

Fixed with two brakes is a most underrated set up.

underrate this - drilled by Nagasawa-san himself

(i goodle-translated it later and realised you might have meant that fixed with two brakes is actually good, but decided to post this pic anyway, as i like it lots =))

yes, he meant that fixed with two brakes is a good setup. i think

It is.

Made it so much easier on the legs.

It is.

Made it so much easier on the legs.

what do you mean?
forgive me but i dont really understand.

Well, some people ride fixed with no brake, or only a front brake. Obviously, you are doing a lot of rear wheel braking with your legs. By fitting a rear brake, you are taking the pressure of the braking off your legs.

oh okay, fair enough.

(i goodle-translated it later and realised you might have meant that fixed with two brakes is actually good

Yep.
It's versatile and a real leg-saver

phew! feel much nicer about my soon to be finished holdsworth special comfy fixed roady with F&R brakes. Spokes come next week and then it will finally be allowed to stay indoors (girlfriend doesn't like bits hanging about).
photos to follow

Couple of low quality pics of lotarckdem which is plodding along slowly and expensively. Still need to do the research to find who made the frame so i can get it refinished at argos.
All the TA parts are polished and ready to go, still need to decide on saddles and hopefully swap the 3ttt bars for cinelli to match stems.
Wheels are campy/summit, pro3s wont be staying and logos need polishing off the cheap as chips seatposts.

if anyone knows anything about the frame please let me know, when i know the builder it'll be repainted a couple of shades darker, more a phonebox red as its a bit orangy at the mo.

How come it has bmx type front bb? Is that common on tandem?

It's an eccentric bottom bracket.

Ah that makes sense.

Should have the Dolan CX finished mid-week when the last couple of parts arrive. Pix will follow.

Should be picking up the Le Roi next weekend too. Thinking of some aerospokes and riser bars, and possibly a Raleigh Chopper/Grifter saddle, as an homage. What do folk think?

phew! feel much nicer about my soon to be finished holdsworth special comfy fixed roady with F&R brakes. Spokes come next week and then it will finally be allowed to stay indoors (girlfriend doesn't like bits hanging about).
photos to follow

fnar fnar

That is some pub bike! Very nice. Mine is nearly done now cost about £180 less but looks like it cost £500 less...

Converted Hardrock mtb frame to accept 700c wheels. As beater as I could make it. Tyres are a bit good though but; odd wheels, odd brakes (inc rust), odd crank arms, bodged ss conversion, really tatty Concor and bars with hardly any tape and old levers.

Be doing quite a bit of night riding so intend to wrap some reflective tape around stays and forks and of course fit some lights.

Some sort of mudguard would also be good.

Thing is my daughter likes it! That wasn't the idea!!!

He work in Evans, he get a discount for the frame, I doubt he's loaded with lots of spare money.

those frames still arent cheap with a discount £900 ish

New build very slowly getting there. Early 90's Terry Dolan built Ribble.

Money situation majorly holding things up at the minute as ever, not helped by impending trip to Berlin but thinking black San Marco concor, campagnolo aero seatpost and cinelli criteriums (or maybe nitto b123's). Sugino cranks will be upgraded later I guess.