Names and faces to bikes

Love that Viking.

she's a bit different at the mo, gone SS with 27" wienmanns on large flange malliard hubs, longer stem [120mm] lovely frame. also building a colnago super up [got it from pistofski on here] and a bloody elswick shopper that was dumped out side my house! happy days......

Hi. Can I ask you a question and please be honest: How many offer of 'help' and 'advise' did you get via PM?

15000...... All from lynx

That Viking is well the lush

Can you guess what it Is yet?

Course you can......accuse crap iPhone picture and skillz

That Viking is well the lush

If it was me, the right drop on the handlebar would be hanging by the brake cable and the bike would not roll on the road for over 3 months. Bloody shoulder thingys!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wapwap/6688925619/

^ The face?

thats a friend not me . . . .

You are you friend, you are that guy that did that thing. You are me.

Orange

this is me the face riding the Brooklyn around holloway in a nervous Im just getting used to being fixed kinda way -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wapwap/6725401581/

Nice Naim / Quad rig you have there. Still regret selling my Naim pre-amp :(

Nice Naim / Quad rig you have there. Still regret selling my Naim pre-amp :(

thanks! im on my 3rd naim pre now, started on nac92 then nac 102 and the nac 72 is the prettiest one :-) i love my Naim gear, too much! its why i have a bike and dont have a car ehehehe

Nice Naim / Quad rig you have there. Still regret selling my Naim pre-amp :(

what did you have and why did you sell it?

Here's me and my Ron Cooper Columbus SL and, er, Ron Cooper!

This frame is 25 years old this year and I've decided to get it back in action. May well provide some updates in current projects - it'll be a mixture of old-school (retro paint job, quill stem, lo-pro wheels built by Harry Rowland, gum wall tyres) and new stuff (conversion for STI shifting/10-speed, SRAM groupset?)

Only found out very recently that Ron is working at Colour Tech in Crayford where I'm getting it resprayed, so hopefully it will get some extra loving, care and attention. :)

Looking forward to it :) Any ideas on colour scheme?

Yes, having spent ages picking through various RAL colours and noting down numbers, it has become apparent that what I'm really after is a combination of Ferrari red and Gios blue. It'll be red with blue panels on the down tube and seat tube, "RON COOPER" on each side of the down tube and "COOPER" down the front of the seat tube in white over the blue. (No bottle brazing on the seat tube.) With the panels separated by rainbow-band stickers. Also blue head tube in front of the lugs and COOPER rainbow-band head badge decal.

Apart from the fact I like the colours, it will be a match for VC Londres club colours - this harks back to my teenage days when I was racing for the club. I recently rejoined, with a view to racing at Herne Hill this year. Not that the Ron will see any racing - it'll be strictly a Sunday-best sunny day special. :)

Looking forward to seeing more of this build

Here's me and mine.

Dumpster found Crescent - loaner bike and general don't worry cruiser.

New Sillgey project.

KHS track frame, now with moar wider weels. (590mm = 650A)

The beloved 'ffranck.

Close-up.

Newest project: 1965-ish Flyer. No dead puppies, this one was too far gone for any of you lot to rescue, but on this side of the Atlantic these things are much rarer. I spent too much to bring it back, but I have no regrets. The green isn't as bright as it may seem, more grassy.

Close-up.

And me, mr sunshine.

Sorry for the focus, new P&S Canon, getting used to it.

Tiny photos

Sorry, here's a link.

https://picasaweb.google.com/111985851870010318492/BikeSet?authkey=Gv1sRgCLiMhIXevNWPUA#

Not sure why they're so small.

I see you found a bar style you like

More like my hands/wrists/shoulders/neck made some demands I could no longer ignore.

Main/favourite bike

Lo pro

Sensible bike/"commuter" (that I rarely commute on)

Me engrossed in karaoke selection

Like most of the photos so far, its out of date :)

me:

Feel like it's time I updated this, 5 years on... God knows what bike was in that picture or what my face was.

This is what I look like now, and what I ride:

I got a brompton as well but i guess you don't wanna see that.