First glimpse of the Mercian

the-smiling-buddha campagnolo record hubs, with 'super competition rims, and tubs

Classy - I remember the hubs and rims that you posted actually. It's gonna be a nice build!

what size/length of tube protector are you looking for?

Yanco pads do a short one now, in ANY (almost) pattern or colour. Freshtripe imports them

Yanco

Freshtripe

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Ahhh who am I kidding that is one beautiful frame.

Nice !

That's paul lever will go further inboard (towards the stem) if you want, you just have to ream some material off the inside of the clamp section, there is enough there to not weaken it.

Looking excellent, when do you get the orange arrospoks ?

Momentum
Just one thing - you generally shouldn't clamp the frame tubes as they can be quite fragile and get dented. Bst thing is to pop a seatpost in and clamp on that.

first rule of workstand:

You DO NOT clamp the top-tube

second rule of workstand:

you DO NOT clamp the top-tube.

I cringed when Kevin Bacon did that to his bike in Quicksilver, for me it was the worst bit of cycling related bullshit in the whole film.

don't clamp any of the bike's tubes, that's what seatposts are for, and if you have a carbon one, use an old alloy one or at least put some wadding round it!

RPM [quote]Momentum
I cringed when Kevin Bacon did that to his bike in Quicksilver, for me it was the worst bit of cycling related bullshit in the whole film.

the worst bit? well I suppose you have to pick something. I still sadistically like that film though. "VOOOODOOOOOOO!!!"

first rule of workstand:

you do not talk about workstand.

And that paint might still be soft.
Let it cuuuuure.

Purrty!

Look Ergostem (they do new ones these days with carbon and sizing for OS bars and stuff)

can you tell me paint names/numbers? it will help me choose the colours for mine, i like the french blue but the colour chart on the site isn't very good. and not as good as your pictures

you can never have too many baby-blue bikes, eh Smiffy?

i don't know what colour(s) it will be but chocolate brown, claret/vermillion, pistachio,purple, cream and mid-blue are all possibles. a combination of a 3 with head tube, barbers pole and lug lining.
then i need to decide on the decal colours :-)

the-smiling-buddha its a LOOK ajustable stem for dialing in TT riding position, on the bareknuckle I suffer with numb hands anything over twenty miles, this set up is designed to find a riding position to eliminate that, also I like these stems, i think they are kinda cool

I just want to say that this forum and the people who post here are an absolute inspiration to me, this bike will look the bollox and *that is thanks to you lot *,so I suppose I owe you lot a pint...;)

the button for that is over there <---- Does that make up for all the stuff i did VB?

kick ass bike, im getting simalar bars, and we can hang out with our blue out

MrSmith i don't know what colour(s) it will be but chocolate brown, claret/vermillion, pistachio,purple, cream and mid-blue are all possibles. a combination of a 3 with head tube, barbers pole and lug lining.
then i need to decide on the decal colours :-)

which tubeset will sir be choosing?

it's nellys crashed damaged frame from when he was a courier, it's 531 but i expect the top/down tubes i get replaced wil be 631.
all a long way off as i am about to sign a lease on a studio so no frivolous spending for a while.

ah, i see.

was looking a their gallery, Paul smiths is interesting, would like to see a proper shot of it ;

Amazing. Im a massive fan of Mercian. You don't get quality like it anywhere else in the country. Plus I'm from Derby ;)

Glad to see your running tubs aswell

nimhbus ah, i see.

was looking a their gallery, Paul smiths is interesting, would like to see a proper shot of it ;

Hers the link I think your after. They've got one in the shop. It looks amazing. Over £2000 :( http://www.merciancycles.com/psmith_track.asp?pk_pic=33#33 it looks great:

no, that's not it.

the one Paul is holding up, is his own personal custom built one-off mercian -all black with specially anoidized components and gloss back lettering. it's in the gallery section.

can't you tell it's not the same bike? :)

I can't wait for the end of the month, then it's off to mercian for a respray and freshen up of the frame i bought off ebay for £35.
Had it authenticated by Mercian before christmas and it's a nice one too.

Was thinking black with white lining but i'm not sure now. Colours look good.

Chris

MrSmith can you tell me paint names/numbers? it will help me choose the colours for mine, i like the french blue but the colour chart on the site isn't very good. and not as good as your pictures

41 French Blue Enamel
28 Royal Blue Enamel
22 White Enamel

It is very, very difficult to get the colours right, I went through endless combinations,
in the end I was drawn to the French blue because I live in Paris
and the Royal blue because I am English,
English/French had a nice feel about it...!!
In other words I made my choice intuitively as much as aesthetically
One thing to note is that the range of decal options is much more limited than paint options
You need to start with a base colour and a decal colour before adding a third colour and other options
With mercians it is very easy to go too far and then you end up with the Paul Smith bike
Which may suit some people but for me has a bit to much going on
It is very easy to get it wrong...;)

cool thanks for that it gives me some idea of what colours what.
i am thinking of a deep burgundy/liver/purple colour too but anything that dark just looks black on the mercian colour chart
if i lived near Derby i would photograph the samples myself :-)

"It is very easy to get it wrong...;)" i think you got it right

nimhbus ah, i see.
was looking a their gallery, Paul smiths is interesting, would like to see a proper shot of it ;

Why the hell has this designermonkey got the all-black frame and sells those bloody candy cane twirly things to other rich baboon felchers? It maketh no sense.