Polo Bikes

Oli from Berlin.
He does press ups in between games.

Nice tache

and clearly you have not ridden a bike with a big gear?? maybe you can't accelerate as quick but you can go everywhere, really fast!

Nodder thread >>>>

{woo, right thread}

I've built a new rear wheel for my polo bike so I can give Oz his set back. It seems to be reasonably light and although it's not quite up to the ideal tension yet (the pluck note is a few tones below my MTB's spokes), I've managed to keep it straight to about +/- 0.25mm both horizontally and vertically.

Echo TR 135mm fixed trials hub
DT Swiss E440 32h disc-only rim
DT Competition double butted spokes

About 900g :-)

Wasn't going to share this until it was fully done, but I have that new bike feeling.

The Geometry isn't quite what was ordered (a full degree off) and some of the tolerances are a bit sketchy, but it is fixable. going to be Tigging up a new fork to sort it out and changing the location of all the braze-ons while I'm at it. Will have a proper photo once it's finished. But for now here's a vanity-headcam-photo. Loving it and would get another.

A very obscured "me too" marino. The colour really glows in the light.

Edit:
found another blurry photo.

Hey guys. I'm selling my Volume trasher frame+ fork+ Ns fundamental fork+ gusset crank+ gusset open prison handlbar+ blb stem. For £300!

If someone is interested!
thanks

it's tiny, you'll never fit on that

The Geometry isn't quite what was ordered (a full degree off) and some of the tolerances are a bit sketchy,

That's what I'm worried about. Mine should be here in a few weeks. To be honest I think you can't really expect precision for less than £200, and I'm looking on mine as an experiment anyway.

It wouldn't suprise me if mass-produced bikes were out by a degree or so. I've seen so many dodgy disc mounts/canti mounts and incorrect tube lengths now...

What sketchy tolerances are you talking about?

my dropouts were a little out of line, nothing too bad though

To be honest no problems that aren't either cosmetic or can't be sorted in a well-tooled bike-shop.

and i got a FREE hat with mine!

Seatstays mounted at different heights on the wishbone.
Every bend feels like it's been made by a monkey with a hammer, wrinkles all over the place.
Welds are undercut in spots, though admittedly better than I am capable of myself (I'm a shite weldor)
then it comes down to small stuff like the seatslot being offcentre and the fact that it had unfinished ventholes inside the seattube with sharp bits of metal sticking out.

Most of the issues were with the forks:
dropout on the forks not inline and at different heights, I didn't want to coldset them as they were out by so much. I did take a file to them to get them to the same height. It'll be an axle breaker this bike.
Canti mounts squint relative to each other, though I know that doesn't change the function much.
Oh, and the dropouts on my forks were blatantly intended to be rear vertical dropouts, they've had the derailleur hanger hacksawed off and are roughly filed to shape

and the geometry being slightly (but not unfixably) wrong.

Good points:
perfectly straight
cheap
quick
you can design something bespoke that you won't be able to get elsewhere and get a bike which is close.
I know a lot of folk who are using these as trials bikes so I take that to mean that they are bloody strong.

I don't want to put it down too much because I'm more than happy with mine, especially at the price.
The marino product is definately functional rather than being the moon-on-a-stick custom frame people seem to think.

I'll put a proper review up when I get a bit of mileage on the frame

I love my free hat, it has unravelled a little bit though,
and I'm glad I'm getting ryan to sort my forks if yours ain't great

go do your taxreturn you layabout!

Looks good Colin, very joust-like. Are those 26" 48s?

hang on a second.. is that a 700c rear wheel and a 26" front?!

hang on a second.. is that a 700c rear wheel and a 26" front?!

Geometry correction?

[At work, can't see pic]

hang on a second.. is that a 700c rear wheel and a 26" front?!

Slight fisheye on the lens by the looks of it.

probably worth cleaning it

i love that TT bike max.

dual 26". fisheye. only the front is a 48hole, was a freebie from a bikehire place I worked at briefly.

Looks like you've found a better court Colin?

http://www.trackosaurusrex.com/pblog/images/SosoAero.jpg

goalie bike?

the hole in the wheel cover is a bit big

dunno what this is, but taken from HHSB thread
http://www.citygrounds.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/gen-black-360.gif

It's John Prolly's Volume Generator - http://prollyisnotprobably.com/2012/01/product_review_volume_generato.php

Looke like a lightweight version of the cutter

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