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@jonnym
After a 6 month build, due to laziness and not a huge amount of free cash - I've eventually complete my first SS track type bike. I put together a blog for my brother who lived (now returned to the UK) overseas. So here is a run through of the build, comment/critism all welcome. I'm happy with the final outcome, can't wait to turn a wheel in anger in the next few days.
Hope the formatting pastes across OK. And click thumbnails for larger images.
Cheers
Jonny
The Starting Point
I'm going to document the build of my track bike, I've collected a few parts already and I'll run through them in each post and the reasons why I specced them.
The long term plan is to build a multi-purpose bike, sharing a base frame - for commuting, triathlon and track riding. Using a few purpose specific swappable parts.
We will start at the beginning:
Picked this up from E(vil)Bay for a very good price, and so the project was born.
Its a Kona 'The Rat' track frame, double butted steel, 120mm dropout spacing, finished in an OK deep purple finish, with retro-esque graphics - finished off with vintage looking steel forks (1" steerer).
I'll post the full geometry in one of the next post - super tight, super steep and very few of them around !
**Miche Headset **
Now this was a tricky find without blowing £60+ on a Campagnolo Record 1" threadless headset. Most options are either modern 1.125" or old-school threaded 1".
I picked this up from the LFGSS forum, unused 2nd hand - lovely piece of kit. With angular contact bearings top and bottom, cool satin silver finish and a 'betterthanstartflangenut' expander plug. Miche quality.
I'm a function over form kind of biker, but from my BikeCAD mock up (see next post), silver looked so much better than a black.
**BikeCAD.ca **
Using the great BikeCAD.ca program/website, I mocked up a "tentative" finished product.
Kind of what I'm aiming for:
**Project's sneakers **
I believe these are NOS stock (from box colour scheme) seem very narrow for claimed 25c, but fulfils my brief perfectly - file tread, amber skin wall, not weighing 400g+ ! Need some wheels first.