Current Projects chat and miscellany

Cheers, taking your time is key I think, I did it over two weeks.

I sprayed a frame over a month, tried to get it a metallic white... prepped loads, had it cure in a heated area...

still chipped really easily, and spent about the same on rattle cans in the end as a cheap powder coat would've been. Worth doing it for the experience though.

Did you clear coat too? This has had 3/4* coats of primer, 3/4* coats of colour & 2 of clear coat. Thankfully its cost me much less than it should have as I have a friend who works in Halfords.

*I did a few more in areas I knew would be more prone to chipping

Yeah clear coated it 3 or 4 times, primed it silver then took a shit load of coats of white to cover the silver! Didn't really work out the silver pearly white flip I had in mind... but it was ok.

not a great picture but this was the bike, built up for my sister as something practical and reliable.. not a great photo either.

everytime i look at it I wish had gone for big apple tyres!

Ah well if it chips it chips. Nothing I can do about it, It was nice to have something practical to do after I finished work everyday. Big fat tyres would have looked good yeah, schwalbe hookworm's or something.

when she wears these out will get her some fatter tyres innit.

very keen on your colour scheme.

Cheers, the colour are Ford* 'Purple Velvet' *(Ford code: F & 828B.) and Ford 'Mercury Grey' (Ford code: 3, 3YP, MN, Q & 2076C.) if anyone wants to get some.

New front wheel for my Moser. More photos here

Schwalbe hookworm's

Is that a hybrid tyre?

Also, greengrocers' apostrophe.

ah yes, i see what i did there. It was because i was thinking about big apples' and typing.

New front wheel for my Moser. More photos

Beautiful photos. Jealous!

I sprayed a frame over a month, tried to get it a metallic white... prepped loads, had it cure in a heated area...

still chipped really easily, and spent about the same on rattle cans in the end as a cheap powder coat would've been. Worth doing it for the experience though.

i'll say it again.

the key in rattle can is to leave the original paint on, and just lightly sand it with 200+ grit, followed by 000 steel wool. finish will be nearly as durable as the posdercoat.

i get very durable results.

i'll say it again.

the** key **in rattle can is to leave the original paint on, and just lightly sand it with 200+ grit, followed by 000 steel wool. finish will be nearly as durable as the posdercoat.

i get very durable results.

doffs cap

Suddeny turned into....

Sweeeet as Cokacola.

Though not sure about the levers...

My ScobleBike®.

Van Nicholas Pioneer Rohloff
Rigida 26" on Shimano/Quando hubs + Shimano 16T freewheel
Brooks
Midge bars
Thomson stem
Tektro RL340 levers
Chris King Devolution headset
Conti slick 32mm tyres
FroggsBollocks canti brakes
SPD touring pedals
DiaCompe cables
VNT touring forks

http://oi53.tinypic.com/25rz22u.jpg

I had to sent the carbon VNT SLX forks back. Pity - they're pretty.
Still need a seatpost, proper ti seat clamp, racks.
Tripple MTB chainset for that 54mm chainline, so I can run it single speed (SLX or FSA Afterburner)

looks great, are you getting the same forks again or something new?

Finished my Leader about a week ago, but finally got around to putting up some snaps.

Just got to switch the 17t cog for a 15t then I'm ready for my first tarck day at Herne Hill this Saturday...

just got this today on the "Deutsche Rennradbörse" (german bike jumble)
big custom 1994 Merckx MXL frameset ... only sporadicly used
going to change saddle, stem and handlebars asap
(better pics when this is done)

Paintjob looks sweet, placing of the Reynolds sticker looks shit. :)
What's wrong with you!?

i know i know i know, i did it at whilst standing at a slight angle didn't notice till i stood back. the sticker was so sticky i knew it would just rip the paint right off if i tried to re place it.

That's lovely schnitter - That's a huge head tube - 65cm? You get a bargain?

Have finished building up the Basso frame I bought from the forum. Thanks to Dooks for the stem and bars, the final pieces of the puzzle.

take a better photo and that'll be right off to porn

looks great, are you getting the same forks again or something new?

Those gash brown alloy ones with scarification welds. I will probably upgrade to 26" carbon ones when I find something suitable. This way I will have one pair for touring and the other for pootling around Shoreditch.

that's nice.
full c-record?