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box section touring rims, 48H, eyeletted

Here's the article on those wheels/rims: http://prollyisnotprobably.com/2008/12/laced.php

box section touring rims, 48H, eyeletted

The rigida's are yes.

different wheels
http://nocassettes.blogspot.com/2009/03/sad-day-for-terry-b.html

they are the first pair of profile 48H hubs

geekhouse belt drive

Ah ok, it was the similar looking bike that threw me, still they are sunn rims not rigidas, if you zoom in and stare closely you can just about make out the logo on the closeup pic of the wheel. Hopefully the rigida's will be better, I never liked sun rims when I used to bmx, my mate wrecked loads, I stuck with odysseys.

@dopeB, they're still using the crappy paul's though.

swapping out soon

Monsieur Balls, I've always wondered, what frame is that you use on your polo bike, it looks quite beefy and tough.

BLB iro copy

ahhhh ok, cheers. I'll keep you updated on the wheels, if you see me riding around on a battered set of blue deep V's all teary eyed, you'll know whats happened.

Either there's a photographic artefact going on or he has a really, really efficient gas fluxer - that's a strikingly green flame. Interesting torch he's using too...

isn't that just an old oxy torch?

I tried posting this yesterday, but Tomity has a few short videos up on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcXrSCp6_A8&feature=channel_page

There's two vids of Mr.Tanabe Tomity put up in his velodromes in japan thread.. He's got connections

Very fast, and a really hot-sounding flame. Looks like there is a gas fluxer involved too, as the flame is green there as well. Interesting point of technique - looks as if he gets the whole area he wants brazed right up to temperature (that's a pretty bright orange glow) and then adds all the brass almost in one shot. Obviously works, but a bit different from what I learned with Dave Yates, which was more like whole area up close to temperature (dull glow if any) and add brass under heating, then use the flame to lead the molten brass just where you want it (it follows the combination of heat and flux).

Also, I really really want to do some more brazing now.

paint scheme - porn or not?

^^anti anti anti

definitely anti in my humble opinion. top marks for effort mind.

horrible horrible

Nope, I love it. Not my tea... but it's got something quite good about it.

Anti in a big, massive, huge way!

anyone know anything more about these style frames, bars coming from top of forks?
is the style called anything in particular? any frame builder specialise in them? would like to look into picking one up but not sure where to start

1980's Russian TT bike, the Cyrillic translates to Takhion.

more info here : http://www.bikecult.com/works/archive/03bicycles/takhionVV.html