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This week I are mostly been doin' cycle speedway...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16282281@N04/7462433874/in/photostream
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Yessssssss! I'm so jealous! Let us know how you get on!
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Been awesome so far Ricky.
Brakeless, singlespeed, 4 riders, 4 laps, on shale, all shoulders and elbows, keep turning left.
Did I mention it's brakeless?
Just feckin' awesome!Check some of this shit out....
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Excellent. With time and money, I'd be so tempted to get a Archie Wilkinson setup and give it a go. The bikes look pretty comfortable to ride. Could you double one up as a nip-to-the-shops kind of bike too?
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Yeah, Ricky. I've seen them used as a road bike with a road fork. Less toe overlap than with the dead-straight speedway fork. Quite a handy all-rounder really for the price. £99 for f+f, cant go wrong! The 26x1-3/8 wheels give the bike a vintagey kinda feel too.
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Word of warning though children. Cycle-speedway is as dangerous as it looks. I'm currently nursing a slightly dislocated shoulder with a sprinkle of ligament damage thrown in for good measure. Among the other recent injuries within the club are a fractured/dislocated thumb or two, broken collar-bones and some broken ribs.
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Niiiiiceeeeee!
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finished.
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whats that thing attached to the rear hub for?
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Stealth bike looks stealthy! When I get a road bike, thats what it's gonna look like!
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whats that thing attached to the rear hub for?
hitting 45mph on the flat ;)
;-)
not as expensive as you might think....
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No bottle cages?
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My bike now, pretty much gonna stay that way for a while now.
Big picture is big, lazy Andy is lazy.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/4878824675
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/4910899869
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/4911856986
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/5111750251Heya, not really been involved in the scene in Newcastle as didn't really realise there was one! But Anywho, I'm Jamie, been at uni here the last 5 years and now working in Durham (living in Newcastle). The above are a few of many of my many past bikes (the ones I still have photos of!) I will try and get photos of the new ones I'm working on at the moment! Hopefully coming down to this Wednesday ride if I get away from work in time so may see you there!
Ps: I know that the seat mount on the checkered bike is on back to front, just threw it all together for the photo! Oops! The checkered frame is the only thing I still have left from those bikes tho. Pretty Impressed with myself that I sprayed it all myself! Took bloody ages lol! -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7863867052
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7863868054
My absolute baby that I built up from scratch over around 6 months period. Pretty much any part that can be carbon is carbon and it comes in at a few grams over 7kg :) probably made the cost back in saved petrol already, especially as for a while I was using it to commute the 70 mile round trip to work each day, 5 days a week! -
hello. how did you do the checker paint?
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7864028386
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7864029096
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7864029840
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7864030410
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7864031378These are my current projects. First two are pretty much done, just waiting on an order of brake levers and then the blue/white one will get some white bar tape (although I like it with the bare bars myself) and the yellow one will get some brown leather bar tape to match the leather seat :) the other two are a bit behind, still need to build the blue rims up etc, the blue one - the paint is pretty bad so thinking I may do a paint strip and try my hand again at spraying, quite exciting too as it seems like the entire bike may have been chromed before they painted it so may be able to have a predominantly chrome frame with some paint effects where the chrome is poor... We shall see! Any suggestions would be welcome.
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Stripped it down completely, then payed on a few primer coats. Then did a full couple of layers of white over the whole frame. Once hat was dry, I bought thin tape (you can get it in any width on eBay as they use it when they spray cars to outline designs and tape off boarders etc) and I ran tape in strips along each tube, leaving a gap between strips of the same width as the strip. I then ran loops of tape around the tubes, again, leaving a tape's width between each strip. This then crated the basis. Next I took a scalpel/sharp Stanley knife and cut the squares where the tape met along each side of the square and then used small tweezers to peel off those squares. This left me with a checker pattern of tape. Layed on a few layers of black, waited til it was dry, and then tweezered off the tape, revealing the white underneath and hey presto it was very checkered! And quite cool I think, although it's not for everyone haha! Bit hypnotic! but given that the tape was around 1cm wide, you can imagine how long it took to do! The frame is back in london at the mo but I'll bring it up next time I'm down there, definitely be good to build it up again!
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Just incase that wasn't very clear, I drew a diagram: http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7864286508
As you can see if you remove the pink squares, ie where the tape overlaps, you are left with a checkered pattern of tape.
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i will wrapped it all black with metal cap