Current Projects chat and miscellany

if you're doing it on a budget why not respray the spokk, sell it to some hipster for loads of dowrah and buy a matching front wheel and some 3 piece cranks with the proceeds?

just saying, would make sense.

Agreed...I need to respray it as the paint is looking a bit shit. How much do they go for these days?

I am not really on a tight budget, I am just making it up as I go along & when I see parts I like. I have some black sugino cranks I need to fit yet.

thanks, they appear to be pretty light as well compared to the plug

with hipster tax between £150-200 seems pretty standard spokk fayre i think... you could get a fair few bits and pieces for that.

i was eyeing up the frame in classifieds before thinking it would make a great fun bike, no room for any more bikes though.

It is a nice frame. I like the raw finish on it too.

thanks, they appear to be pretty light as well compared to the plug

Before you decided, go to a bicycle shop, and test ride the Cooper.

Only buy it if you actually like how it ride.

Picked this frame up today..thanks zulu33

This is what i have got so far...

if your not bothered, just ride it, It's just a wheel

Most sensible thing nowhere fast have said in decades.

sometimes "we" spend more time judging others bikes than riding ours.

I'm currently trying to convert an 80s Bianchi I got my girlfriend for her birthday into a fixed gear, it seems to be going pretty well so far considering that I have absolutely no
knowledge of how to do it. I'd managed to get the rear cassette, derallieurs etc off and I've bought a track sprocket. I was talking to a guy I know about it and he said that I wouldn't be able to
Make it fixed without a track hub, I have no idea of that's true or not, if I put the track sprocket onto the original hub will it be fixed or just a single speed? I could always found out for myself but I thought that asking strangers on the Internet would be easier.

I'm currently trying to convert an 80s Bianchi I got my girlfriend for her birthday into a fixed gear, it seems to be going pretty well so far considering that I have absolutely no
knowledge of how to do it. I'd managed to get the rear cassette, derallieurs etc off and I've bought a track sprocket. I was talking to a guy I know about it and he said that I wouldn't be able to
Make it fixed without a track hub, I have no idea of that's true or not, if I put the track sprocket onto the original hub will it be fixed or just a single speed? I could always found out for myself but I thought that asking strangers on the Internet would be easier.

unless you want to kill your gf, read this http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed/index.html carefully

namely this page http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed-conversion.html

Cheers, I'll give it a look, I would ideally like to avoid killing her.

You never know who's watching. Nice cover ;)

If you buy a cheap track hub, id rebuild the wheel for you. Would be infinitely better imo.

tis called suicide hub for a reason

Edit:

maybe get something like this...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/REAR-FIXED-WHEEL-700C-ROAD-BIKE-FIXIE-WHEEL-BLACK-/250840033010?pt=UK_sportsleisure_cycling_bikeparts_SR&hash=item3a673b26f2#ht_2257wt_1195

Most sensible thing nowhere fast have said in decades.

while most people are on here complaining, i'm learning

What have you learned on this forum so far?

• visible welds are anti and a sign of poor quality.
  
• old + Italian = porn, always.
  
• matching colours = anti, non-matching colours = anti too.
  
• if it's not expensive it's anti.
  
  

...more?

I learned your a bit of a dick :P

:o why?

I learned your a bit of a dick :P

I know grammar police are boring, but we should have minimum standards.

u 2

What have bono got to do with grammar?

U2 is a band, silly

What have bono got to do with grammar?

I think that's text speak for 'yure a dick to'

How much do they go for these days?

$50

Well done :)