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that hunch back looks odd, now it does disturb me, not sex anymore
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Headset spacer/stem combo fail
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Doesn't really deserve to be here; it's within a few small changes of being quite nice.
Very porn, if you ask me. Which of course you didn't.
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Doesn't really deserve to be here; it's within a few small changes of being quite nice.
Thats the whole point of 'anti-porn'
most of the best examples (original pengy) are loaded with expensive high end gear but through the owners complete lack of taste and/or logic + usually too much money they create a franken bike that is difficult to even look at.
The bike you mention could be completely changed by taking the black decals off and changing the blue handlebars.
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Thats the whole point of 'anti-porn'
most of the best examples (original pengy) are loaded with expensive high end gear but through the owners complete lack of taste and/or logic + usually too much money they create a franken bike that is difficult to even look at.
The bike you mention could be completely changed by taking the black decals off and changing the blue handlebars.
+1
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mate, it IS a franken bike. its a mongrel of bits I had layin about. the blue tape has already been changed to black. decals are stayin as they conceal porosity in the ali that couldn't be polished out.
i love it and its fuckin fast. it was never ment to be pretty, however i reckon it looks tough and purposeful. i have other bikes that populate the 'pretty' section of my collection
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Another tricktrack treat
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Another tricktrack treat
really hope that isn't the spok with the hole in it...
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thank fuck this isn't londonoffspring&girlfriend
lolz :D
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Who said anything about sticking a 130mm hub in there? If its 126 then it was designed for 6/7 speed cassettes so stick one of them instead. As you say you can 're-purpose' it to 8 or above speeds by stretching to 130mm if you so wished.
Likewise if its 120mm and was intended to be a road bike then stick a 5 speed or ultra-6 speed cassette in there. If its intended for a track hub (then it'd likely have track ends) by all means fit one of them.
Of course this is all in an ideal world where we all have the luxury of not having to use old geared road bikes as single speed road/track bikes. But as its not that world I don't have a problem with ppl doing it. Just saying it'd be nice if bikes were kept as their original purpose. Just a personal opinion though.
I say all this despite having recently considered respacing (by cold setting) a 531 Raleigh road frame I have to 120mm for a single speed project I had in mind. As I say its not a perfect world.
NB. For the record I've decided (for now) not to mess with the frame and just get a 126mm single speed hub (or put some spacers on a 120mm seeing as I have a few spares).Nowt wrong with running a 120mm spaced road frame as fixed/single speed, been done by club riders as a winter trainer for years now
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Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong
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I know this will sound weird coming from me, but I hope people don't get too up in arms about this thread...
If that really is your bike Delta, I'm glad you changed the seatpost from the one that was on it earlier (saw photos elsewhere)... it looks much better with the current post (not that you asked).