Readers Wives Anti Porn

How do you stop?

By undoing the quick release.

looks like its all ready undone

I built the bike up to look ugly, never actually rode it like that.

I built the bike up to look ugly, and then rode it like that.
a man after my own heart!

bossugly style ;-)

Oh mmccarthy, what haz you done?

^ Just how long is your spine?!

I know, I know.

But now it has bar tabe and cable outers!

I might need to invest in a slightly shorter stem. I was hoping it'd be easy to swap from the Midges to the Marys (hence the cables running outside of the bar tape), though the reach is a little longer with these.

Still, it's fucking awesome fun! Will post a proper pic on the 29er thread soon.

gross

Found an old pic of my first fixed bike, which I humbly offer up here. In hindsight, it may have been a *little *too small for me, but it did a year's commuting without skipping a beat and got me into the whole fixed gear thing, so it served a purpose.

Did you need an oxygen tank to breath up there. Useful for looking over the top of buses, I suppose.

Paging flickwg

again. this is not a current project. if you want to "show off", go to pedalroom.

the idea behind these thread is to track ongoing projects, get advice from people, and have a thread that commemorates that process.

its quite a nice hiphop conversion, but not the above..

disclaimer: im no forum police or anything, but find these threads a waste of cyberspace

does one get a popup like now with the classifieds with the rules and some possible interesting wanted threads when you want to start a cp thread with something along the lines of my humble opinion above?

i guess not and i should get this to the tips and suggestions thread..

sorry for the rant op. i suggest next time say hi in this:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread708-263.html
or
http://www.lfgss.com/thread6261-1624.html
or i even believe there is a welcome newbies thread.

maybe even an introductory pm with links to these threads as a welcome message?

please don't. enjoy your bike!

rs

I can see why it was criticized... but I think its fricking awesome. Close ups on how you did it? Is it just paint?

Does this really count as a current project?

if you report it it gets merged with readers wives anti-porn.

harsh but fair.

i have to say, totally not my cuppa, but appreciate the workmanship that went into the painting.

of course its polishing a turd, but oh my how much hours spent polishing..!

http://imageshack.us/a/img542/3294/z4yr.jpg

thats not paint though. this is printed vinyl with a clear cat on top. clear coat shrunk the vinyl in places(can see around the lugs), but nothing too bad..

Does this really count as a current project?

sort of yes, as i still have to sort out the headset bearings, as theyre different top and bottom for some reason...

It's horrible.

http://imageshack.us/a/img545/1859/hnwt.jpg

^ that saddle is definitely wonky

http://www.kalavinka-bikes.com/index_j.htm

Brick Lane BLK TRK

Blends nicely into racks of bikes to keep unwanted attention away.

Ignore the crap stem and bars, I'm just trying something different out