Current Projects chat and miscellany

Best colour!! You know this is extremely close to the original Mercier pink colour? This is what I tried to achieve with Armortex too, and I had my bike just next to another Mercier with original paint work and it's almost spot-on!

That looks sweet, more photos?

Skully lights come with a little V shaped rubber adapter for aero seat posts. I've got a few stashed away from when I had my BMC.

WTF is a rideguard?

Google won't tell me.

But for bikes.

But for bikes.

more along the lines

That looks sweet, more photos?

Thanks! Always a pleasure to show off!

http://www.lfgss.com/post1253753-24329.html

It's still the same now, although I went for Nuknow's recommendation at the time and now have an old 3ttt saddle on it, which was a subtle but nice improvment (saddle on the pictures is a 90s specialized MTB one, that looked OK I thought as not too "fat")

I need to re-do the bar tape. I have white coton at home that I want to try, but would like to finish with shellac. Anybody knows where to find shellac? (I mean, old fashion way, easy, in a shop, in london, otherwise I'll UTFS...)

Both ^ the Mercian and Les's new coats are lovely.

Does make me kinda tempted to do a totally untasteful hot pink and lime green colour scheme on my On One now though... hmmm.

Shinkuu Kiss, whats the pink you've used called?

Looking at a lime green fizik arione cx kium saddle (yes I know its a shop test saddle) on ebay to go with my lime green grips and that pink would look sweet on the frame!

It was RAL 4010, which apparently is called TELEMAGENTA. Which is a fully radical name.

Just have to get that f*in fixed cup off and it should be rolling. Will never buy a frame with an old BB fitted again..

Liking it Shinkuu Kiss.

Unfortunately, they don't seem to do anything approaching lime green (yellow green's closest), which I'd like the decals done in.

Although I suppose if I wanted to, I could get the decals made as transfers in lime to be applied after.

I've just cut down a threaded 1" fork, and managed to miscalculate by about 2mm. Not owning a decent file, would it be easier to try and get hold of one and file it down, or just try and use a 5ml spacer or something (would need to source one)?

I have a variety of 1" spacers kicking around at home some silver some carbon, tell me exactly what you need and I can see if I have it

Just have to get that f*in fixed cup off and it should be rolling. Will never buy a frame with an old BB fitted again..

Unscrewing the correct way?

^ I had the same problem, went to my LBS, they used a vice to unscrew it..

Just have to get that f*in fixed cup off and it should be rolling. Will never buy a frame with an old BB fitted again..

You'll be fine I'm sure! If you havn't looked at it already, check this thread, some tips there might help...
http://www.lfgss.com/thread10659-2.html#post2697790

L

(Oh, and nice bike!!)

Unscrewing the correct way?

Yep. Tried wrench, vise and that Sheldon bolt & nut way. None worked. British bb so should unscrew clockwise.

Will give it one more shot then i'll take it to a welder to have a bar or something welded on.

Mighty annoying.

Are you the new fucking Scoble? How many news threads do you need to post pics of your shit bikes in?

Sheesh.

Ha!
Excellent.

Is everyone on this Forum 6' 6" tall?

Thanks! Always a pleasure to show off!

http://www.lfgss.com/post1253753-24329.html

It's still the same now, although I went for Nuknow's recommendation at the time and now have an old 3ttt saddle on it, which was a subtle but nice improvment (saddle on the pictures is a 90s specialized MTB one, that looked OK I thought as not too "fat")

I need to re-do the bar tape. I have white coton at home that I want to try, but would like to finish with shellac. Anybody knows where to find shellac? (I mean, old fashion way, easy, in a shop, in london, otherwise I'll UTFS...)

There are tools to do this, a bit better than the nut and bold method but using the same method. One of these with a hefty spanner (for leverage)
should do the trick. Welding may blister the paint.

Yep. Tried wrench, vise and that Sheldon bolt & nut way. None worked. British bb so should unscrew clockwise.

Will give it one more shot then i'll take it to a welder to have a bar or something welded on.

Mighty annoying.

changed the forks on my chinese machine. The head tube - fork junction isn't exactly pretty but hopefully it will stiffen up the front end. If not then I'll just put the original ones back on.

Those forks are well ugly on that frame. Straight blades would look better.

that bike looks like liquorice.

Those headtube's are inherently hard to make look nice with most forks I think.

Those forks are well ugly on that frame. Straight blades would look better.

there's not a straight tube on the bike, straight forks would look strange.