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Polo bike with new design on the wheel cover

^thought I was reading the Classifieds thread for a second - worried you'd given up prematurely. Your ice stuff came in useful again this morning, thanks!

My Raleigh Phantom (circa 1980?) purchased off the eBay for some Polo abuse,

Now SOLD in favour of ANYTHING else.. which for a while was my borther's Townsend with Alu wheel disks..which in turn has been religated in favour of a Punk Pink SE Draft Lite which looked like this:

and now looks like this (now fitted with Shimano flats, waiting for lower gearing, a shorter stem and a better saddle).

Simple - Did the punk pink SE get any action today?

Danwentsking - glad the ice melt was with you..still having polo withdrawal...no polo until next Sunday...

Yep Lucas - it's pretty nice as it goes actually. Gearing + shorter stem = sorted.

My klunkers!

My first conversion! Now gone to be converted back to geared by its original owner!!

I sold him the frame back to purchase this OLMO From sprockets any Info on this bike warmly appreciated I know nothing of it or its history bought as a single speed frame has no braze ons.
Currently being stripped for a repaint and alloy polish session!!

This is my girlfriends Kalkhoff I rescued lovely old shopping bike and saved me having to repaint her last bike Green!

My daily Commuter! Yes she has gears but to be frank all I have done over the winter is squirt oil at them and no problems thus far despite the much mallingned Helicomatic rear hub!

And finally my latest little project I picked up this old Dawes frame for next to nothing on evil Bay Hop to make a nice little cruiser... Think Moustach bars and Whitewalls!!

Cheers.
Stu!

You cant really polish up steel you know...

Im gonna paint the steel frame and repolish to alloy parts.

I did a similar thing with a brand new DT swiss rim. It was a very good rim but I didnt like the grey powder coat colour, so I nitromors, sanded and then polished it up to a mirror like shine with the aid of Brasso.

But as one might expect, it quickly oxidised again. I buffed it a couple more times, but eventually got fed up. Now I just have an ugly wheel with no resale value.

@Dub - If you are after some NOS moustache bars I have a pair of Nittos that I bought a couple years ago and never fitted. They're to fit a mtb stem.

@SprintKing - I think it would be inadvisable for you to buy a car, because, with lessons insurance etc, it will cost you about £5k before you drive it anywhere with a further £2k a year insurance until you're about 20 - so about £13k without any driving. If you have that kind of money, or your parents put you on their insurance and the car is free (etc.) knock yourself out, but you'd stay in better race shape (q.v. the Cannibal) and save an enourmous amount of money by not driving. Why not buy/fix a folder and multi-mode?

@anyone - I'd post my bikes, but can't figure how to do it from flickr because I am far too stupid.

^ choose your pic, click all sizes, choose size, open in new tab, copy url, post

^ choose your pic, click all sizes, choose size, open in new tab, copy url, post

my ride!

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My camera skills are second only to my computer skills...
A totally inappropriate track bike - tubs, toe overlap and all:

Pompino, winter tyres (from last winter)

Revolution Courier Race (emergency bike)

I'll post the 70yo "lightweight" when i have an "after" picture to compare the "before" with.

nice pompino i think ive seen this around cotteridge is that you?

my ride!

nice whip dude,
swap the tyres round (skid thorugh the rubino), and watch out for unclipping if you're riding breakless with spds, happened to me once, lost a lot of skin.

my ride!

Wow. How are you finding that on the emaciated, pitted Birmingham roads....?

@Belgian. Thanks for the offer, I have some north road bars i picked up off ebay... Infact im off to the powder coaters right now!
Nice Carlton!

The scrap man cometh!!!!!

Spent the day stripping the Dawes and the OLMO.... Gutted I have to go back to work next week.....

Took The dawes up the road to get powder coated so that should be back next week OLMO of to Mercian for a posh Job!!!
Such a delicate frame.

If only one was any good at photography.

Anyhow while driving home daydreaming thinking I had best clear the garage out as my Missus is running out of patience with "our" Bike collection, Turning into the grove I almost crashed into the rag and bone man... As he pulled out I noticed a destinctive shape sticking out of his pick up!! So I had to give chase hopping that distinctive shape would just be some gas pipe abomination..... It was'nt...
Twas this!

Reynolds 531 tubing to boot.

Shame about this...

Now residing unceromoniously in my 1973 saabs engine bay in the Garage.

Sadly my old Saab is to rusty to repair so shall be going to the big car graveyard in the sky anytime soon.
allowing me to have my own dedicated Bicycle workshop.
My missus says i can have as many bikes as one can fit in the Garage.

exclamation mark! more exclamation mark!

nice whip dude,
swap the tyres round (skid thorugh the rubino), and watch out for unclipping if you're riding breakless with spds, happened to me once, lost a lot of skin.

ha! just got hardshell tyre so lol nice sweet

nice pompino i think ive seen this around cotteridge is that you?

Possibly, as there are a couple random other Pompino riders about, but I do the cotteridge double roundabout twice a day.

@Belgian.
Nice Carlton!

I forgot to add that I removed the freewheel (yes, with no rear brake) and replaced the front brake which had too long a reach to brake at the front. It's purely for sentimental value, used to belong to Shane - the late owner of the late Selly Cycles.

@dubmaster how much did you give him for it?

I saw an old road bike on a scrap lorry in Small Heath yesterday but he was too fast and heading the wrong way.

@dubmaster how much did you give him for it?

I saw an old road bike on a scrap lorry in Small Heath yesterday but I was too slow and heading the wrong way.

Sorry, had to...

@dubmaster how much did you give him for it?

I saw an old road bike on a scrap lorry in Small Heath yesterday but he was too fast and heading the wrong way.

I was gonna offer him a Bluey but only had a ten pound note! not a bad deal though really?!? I got the feeling he Knew what I was up too!!

I was gonna offer him a Bluey but only had a ten pound note! not a bad deal though really?!? I got the feeling he Knew what I was up too!!

You overpaid! Ive had bikes off scrap men before and they were chuffed with £5 per bike AND they dropped them off to my 'yard. They only collect them for scrap metal you know.