Bike Mielec

Shed6

well, a lot of the german guys ordered a mielec and i can't remember anything went wrong.

i know one where both angles were fucked up and not acc. to the sent specifications

For £120 (ok the fucker forgot my sparkles) I'm OK with it.
We had some shipping issues on the bulk order. lead times were not what we were told but all in all I think it came good.
I don't have an expensive track frame. I use the Mielec for pretty much everything just with a variety of bars and stems. All my components are transferable to the next build (when I finally come to get one) but I'll always keep the Mielec. Its got my forum name stamped on the BB shell and everything. And its purple.
You get what you pay for at the end of the day. I wouldn't have ordered if it was going to cost me more than £150 all in, and it didn't. Plus its been fun watching what folks have done with theirs. B0n0rs still wins from that order though. I was gutted when I unwrapped the tear drop tubes first. :-(

i know one where both angles were fucked up and not acc. to the sent specifications
so that's one of fifty.

doesn't matter. if it were 1 out of 1000 it would be the same shit.
you are sending a bike building company soem specs to build a frame and they are doing their own core bizz wrong?

so that's one of fifty.

The diagram of Rincewind's polo bike was misinterpreted the first time round. After some arguing in English, a discount on a correctly built frame was offered and accepted, to avoid wasting money on extra shipping.

The first frame will be a fine polo bike for a taller rider, but Rincewind asked for an mtb-style sloping toptube, not a low-prolo.

he meant the 50 that were ordered from germany. we all know that there are more than 1 misbuild mielec out there globally.

Right;

Mielec may be a more accurate builder than Marino, who has built many polo bikes over the last few year and has been building polo bikes to pre-agreed designs for sale under brands such as Hija de la Coneja and Velo Lacuma; There is one Hija frame (shipped direct from Marino in Peru) I've seen where the rear end is misaligned such that the rear V-bosses are useless.

sure, but most of the orders are only copies and this has nothing to do with ordering a custom frame

Ive been quoted £250 for something totally custom not a copy, with my own spec and geo.

Shed6

Thanks for that! I definitely will be looking into this.

Sirbikealot
Is that frame you mentioned earlier still available?
I would PM you but I'm in 'Nursery'

What forks are they?

I would absolutely love a frame like this but I'm very new to the fixed gear world and wouldnt know where to start with the geo.

Do you think if I sent him the pictures of the frame he would be able to recreate something similar?

Oh crap I was meant to quote the original photo apologies.

Hi kmoose, yeah it's still availible, i've written on your profile page with my email

Where did you find your decals ? Love your bike by the way

New happy Mielec only joining the forum.
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7226/uaoq.jpg

Spec

The frame is custom geometry. 59 cm / Str. L m. custom decals. Colour: RAL7026 - granite grey.

Built it up on a low budget with a couple of friend this week.

Where did you find your decals ? Love your bike by the way

why has no one done a Takhion clone?

Because he doesn't do forks (?)

classic but ugly as fuck. yes, hate me.

New drop outs look well. Almost a psx look about that frame. Triangle tubing is defo the way to go. Would love to see more weight comparisons of these and the other alu frames on the market. TM has been pretty scathing in his review of robert's offerings who it seems has had a few slip ups along the way. However I still have not seen anything that resembled a comprehensive review or metrics.

Is the only stock geometry the MASH-geo? I need a cheap frame to try out fixed og SS, which I have not used since in the mid eighties when I raced as a boy here in Denmark.

^Dolan PreCursa

Thx but they are kind of boring even though I might end up with one ;)

Thx but they are kind of boring even though I might end up with one ;)

They grow on you. Tireless, over engineered hunk of Aluminium that you lay your feet on top after a hard ride and you laugh at when you fail to unclip at traffic lights and it collapses in a ringing heap on top of you. Marker thin paint chips off during a hard rain and when you "oops" as you dump it at a stand to lock and it hits the stand (bike) too hard and you realise the stand paint chips off instead because you have none on yours anymore. You throw it about like a happy ragdoll and feel bad as opposed to worried when a closing door hits it.
It's an ugly bastard, but you sure do end up being its mother.
Frankly, even though I can, I don't think I'd need another bike. I miss it.