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very nice bikes indeed.

Reposting the original because I want to.

^^ I sometimes tire of the identikit HHSB orthodoxy - there's something quite nice about the more eccentric builds with vintage steel frames and dubious chainset or wheel choices

^ wicked - is that an OLED wrap or something on the seatpost

el

OG lightsabre seatpost.

Tynan was/is a creative genius.

One of the nicest GT's i've seen...

EL

interesting - starts to consider possibilities....

sorry for shit NDS photo. Spotted in the wild in Bordeaux just now

Wow!

^^ Bonus points for the I-Spy book of HHSB
It's the classier twin of one posted on here a while back...

If I hadn't been having lunch at the time I would have asked the guy to take it out for a spin.

interesting - starts to consider possibilities....

yep...believe it or not, those pic's of tynan's bike are about 4 years old. he was pretty on it. EL has it's place but comes with its own headaches...power supplies, inverters, etc. OLED's are the future but just aren't quite ready yet...they offer low power/no inverter possibilities. however, the cost of EL makes it very accessible if one is creative and knows a thing or two about practical electronics, which i don't. EL also 'flickers' (i.e. the inverter) but obviously at a frequency too high for the eye to detect. the upside being that 'lightsabre' look.

I am so in two minds about riding disc in the city

Me too, then I rode over waterloo bridge, now I'm sure.

yep...believe it or not, those pic's of tynan's bike are about 4 years old. he was pretty on it. EL has it's place but comes with its own headaches...power supplies, inverters, etc. OLED's are the future but just aren't quite ready yet...they offer low power/no inverter possibilities. however, the cost of EL makes it very accessible if one is creative and knows a thing or two about practical electronics, which i don't. EL also 'flickers' (i.e. the inverter) but obviously at a frequency too high for the eye to detect. the upside being that 'lightsabre' look.

I've been out of the loop on this for a while, I did a little bit of work with Osram on OLEDs back in 2007, certainly looked like the future then, I like the idea of OLED ceilings for gentle diffused daylight - I'd always dismissed EL as being purely for Cyberdog jackets.... but that got me thinking. The link I posted had AAA battery powered inverters too so it doesn't need to be too nerdy a project!

pink gt

The pink panther was the reason I signed up to this forum. Ace paintjob & build

Me too, then I rode over waterloo bridge, now I'm sure.

impracticality is swallowable, its just the fact that you are riding a disc wheel on the street

I think we need an expert opinion, how does 'polo feel about it? :P

<40GI has no say.

^^ Bonus points for the I-Spy book of HHSB
It's the classier twin of one posted on here a while back...

The only things classier are the wheels.

I am so in two minds about riding disc in the city

You're in the wrong topic then.

hey I am still on the fence