Bike porn

it means gtfo

... in the politest of terms possible of course! :D

Needs a DA crankset and it's poifect

That cooper is beautiful, WANT!

Lee Cooper is very reasonable on frame building prices. He does some great work, and is even experienced with fixie skidder/tarck bikes due to building for 14bikeco.

He is based in your town if I am not mistaken.

Yeah based in Coventry now, i see him now and then on a nice Raleigh Ti racer.

Perfect?

needs a crankset and it's poifect

ftfy

Does that Merckx have century finish Chorus monoplanes? If so, STYLE!!

^^Dat close up

A few up to date full pics, still tweaking the road bars/levers, but here with the track drops.
Still a seat clamp to find, and then the wheel build....but so far,

this, all of this

Without shadow. The nicest bike of anyone on this forum.

I like this, but i'm curious, can anyone tell me what the advantage is of having the divided seat tube?

The best engineering reason for it is thus (or least the only one I can fathom) - "it makes the bike statistically more likely to make it into the prOn thread"

My very first post and I've gone and F'd it up.
I was trying to comment on this... I'll get the hang of it....

more pics but no seat cluster closeup

Shorter chainstays without bending the seat tube.

Ah, thanks mr brickman that is what my independent scientific research turned up, I just wanted to put it to peer review.

Are shorter chainstays better? Less flex? less chain links? I like to learn.

shorter wheelbase, more responsive.

but I assume that there is a noticeable weight saving too?

at least your first post in porn was actually related to a nice bike, mine taste back then was horrendous...

Thanks...

I think I might get it now. Quicker turning makes sense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiLzf72Jtrw