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Yeah, it would have been in September. I'd just picked the frame up from the bloke I bought it from off of ebay, at the time it was fitted with a rather sorry looking Ritchey headset and a pair of more aero forks which I swapped with Smeear for a rather lurvely hat. As I said the original plan was to build it up as my road fixie, but then a week later the Soma Rush came along and the week after that I realy screwed my back and didn't realy get back on a bike till the new year. Anyway the Soma's up and running and it's time for this to go to someone who can build it up and ride it :)
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And a retrospective "hello" back. What are you riding at the moment? I'm planning to try my hand at polo once I'm a more confident fixed rider and the steel fork for the Soma has arrived, think mixing an inexperienced rider, a carbon fork and polo would probably be just asking for trouble!
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See you then, then :)
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Doesn't look like anyone's interested in this, so I'll probably bite the bullet, get it powder-coated and stick in on ebay. Ayway, thought I'd have one last attempt at rustling up some interest by posting some pictures of it with some wheels on, the wheels are just for illustration purposes, it's just the frame I'm offering for sale here, as the wheels are already promised to others on the forum.
To recap frame is aluminium, measures 52cm C-C, 56cm C-T and is a track frame, with no drilling for a brake in the rear brake bridge. The bottom bracket is 68mm with English threading.
As you can see the frame needs repainting/powder coating, it was in a pretty tatty state when I got it and I started taking the decals off in preparation for getting it powder coated. Also the forks steerer is on the short side, it has 45mm showing when fitted to the frame with this Miche Primato headset, so it's plenty long enough to properly fit a stem but too short to fit any spacers, unless it's a flatish stem like the Cinelli Alter, see the lower picture.
The frame comes fitted with it's original Fort seat tube collar, a 1" Miche Primato headset, a carbon Profile fork (with 1" aluminium steerer). It's also fitted with a 25.4 mm USE Alien seat pin, fitted in a 25.4mm to 27.2mm shim that sits nicely just below the rim of the seat collar. The seat pin's been painted white as the original plan was to powder coat the frame white. The frame is currently fitted with a plain 100mm aluminium 2 bolt stem, that could easily be powder-coated the same colour as the frame at seat pin. For this lot I'm looking for £150, I'll throw in the sealed Shimano bottom bracket it came fitted with if you want it, though it's not in great shape and is 110mm wide, which I'm not sure is the right size for any of the track chainsets I know of. See picture below;
Another option that just occurred to me is to fit it with this Cinelli integrated stem and bars, again the finish on these is a bit ropey and unless you like the flourescent yellow, they'd need powder-coating to, but I reckon these powder-coated to match the frame and seat pin could look pretty neat. For this lot I'd want £180, I also have a 100mm red and yellow Cinelli Alter stem that you could have this fitted with, for that combo I'd want £170. See pic below
In case no-one is interested anyone got any suggestions about what colour to powder-coat this? I was originally thinking white but then thought either powder blue or a pale cloud grey, or I could just powder-coat it red to match the Cinelli Alter stem. Let me know what you think. -
Yeah, several times, you heat the frame to 400 degrees to powder-coat it, this is still 200 degrees below Aluminium's melting point. I know there are issues about heat affecting the mechanical properties of aluminium alloys, but I always understood this was at tempretures higher than that required for powder-coating.
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I'm guessing the problem is it's aluminium not steel, needs painting and it's the wrong time of year, all of which is fair enough.
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powder coating aluminium is fine, I would go for a pale green with a blue pearl top coat.
something like this base coat:
and this top coat:
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every thing black, put black rims, black hub black spokes and white spoke nipples, all components black.
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I've the same in British Racing Green and it looks lovely, gold rims and brown leather saddle and bar tape, classy bird!
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every thing black, put black rims, black hub black spokes and white spoke nipples, all components black.
racist.
And, whats all this paranoia about powdercoating aluminium? All modern mtb frames are aluminium and come powder coated. The curing oven is a max of 400c and the frame is only in there for 15 minutes or less.
People even powdercoat thin walled rims.
In term of colour, for a sale. Black is indeed a popular inoffensive choice. But id be tempted to do something bold, like the flouro to match those bars!
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paint it pink - it will sell for hundreds
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Battleship grey
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+1 for battleship grey. preferably matt.
Marxist_fixie, your name cracks me up a treat.
Polybikeuser, did you get your bag back by any chance?
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actually i agree with roberto... neon pink, as bright as you can get.
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For Sale: Fort frame, but what colour should I paint it if no-one wants it?
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I originaly intended to build this up as a fixed gear road bike, but I then got my hands on the Soma Rush frame, so this project got shelved. The frame is aluminium and measures 52cm C-C, 56cm C-T. It's a proper track frame, the rear brake bridge isn't drilled for a brake. The bottom bracket is 68mm with English threading. The fork has carbon legs and a metal (I think aluminium not cromo) steerer.
Getting the bad bits out of the way first, the frame needs repainting/powder coating, it was in a pretty tatty state when I got it and I started taking the decals off in preparation for getting it powder coated. Also the forks steerer is on the short side, it has 45mm showing when fitted to the frame with this Miche Primato headset, so it's plenty long enough to properly fit a stem but too short to fit any spacers if you want a more upright position.
The frame came with it's original Fort seat tube collar and as well as mating it with the 1" Profile fork I fitted it with the aforementioned 1" Miche Primato headset. I've also fitted it with this 25.4 mm USE Alien seat pin, this is fitted in an alloy 25.4mm to 27.2mm shim that sits nicely just below the rim of the seat collar, all rather neat. The reason for fitting the narrower bore seat pin was that as an oversized aluminium frame it's quite rigid and the plan was that, for road riding, the narrower bore seat pin would go some way to ironing out some of the ride harshness you might otherwise encounter. The seat pin's been painted white as the original plan was to powder coat the frame this colour. The stem is a plain aluminium, 2 bolt affair and is 10cm long.
Putting this lot together cost me around £165, so I'm looking for £150 for it. It came fitted with a Shimano 110mm sealed bottom bracket, which isn't in great shape but is okay, if you want it with the frame, you're welcome to it. If you want a front brake for it we can probably work something out.