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Long story short, my little brother Scoot and my mate Jack both need to do more cycling, only problem is that Scoot is a tad unfit and has a terrible bike to cycle on, putting him off somewhat (My crappy old full sus) and Jack is also riding a mountain bike and maintains the argument that he would ride more if he had a more road oriented bike.
The solution on a budget? Build two bikes, one fixie for my Jack's birthday and a SS for Scoot to ride to school and to band practice on.
I was given some old frames through work and decided they'd do, so down to the the powder coaters with the instructions of 'make mine blue' from Scoot and 'British racing green' from Jack, and here they are, wonderful job for £20 I reckon, including the head badge for Jack's green bike.
I'll me mostly using parts from the second hand corner of work, but I'm aiming it get some decent riding and looking bikes, so probably sticking to silver as a colour for all the parts if I can, Scoot's bike is having both brakes, Jack's is having a front and fixed as he's been practicing on mine already and got a fair hang of it.
Next job, build some wheels!
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