New Bike

Apologies if I have put this in the wrong place.

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Also if anyone could give me a steer on how to post a decent picture that would be good- I clearly do not have the hang of the search function...

all that shinyness may attract thieves.. and the headshock may attract scorn. ;-)
Ride it and love it.

Looks like a tough motherfucker.

You should insert the link to the actual image, not the thumbnail.
I clicked on your thumbnail, then saw the big pic, then right-clickde on the big pick, seelected properties, copied the image URL, then came bacck here, and pasted the copied url between the 'img' and '/img' tags, where the apostrophes are replaced by [ and the other closing one thta looks the same.
OK?

Ready to race!

Is it a Cannondale, right?

Headshock= it's the frame I happened to have when fixed seemed like a good idea...

Thanks Provenrad, I'll hopefully do better next time when I post a picture.

It is/was a Cannondale, not quite standard anymore though.
It still has the same stem that it came with, everything else has been changed.

i like it...
is it just down to bare aluminium & polished up? what rear hub?

is that a 26" disc wheel front and 700c fixed on a magic ratio?
What front tyre if it's 26"?

can't tell what's going on at the dropouts from the picture...verticle with x ?

It looks like a stripped down 'Badboy Ultra'. I used to have one, frighteningly quick

It was a 1FG Ultra, which was designed to be a singlespeed- vertical dropouts with an eccentric bottom bracket to put tension on the chain.

Both wheels are 700C- my camera/shooting angle have made the front look smaller.
The tyres are both Conti GP4000's.
I bought the front wheel off a member of this forum, sadly I do not know his handle- he rides a Mercian if that helps?

The rear hub is a 135mm surly, now with a 13 tooth dura-ace sprocket as the 18 tooth surly in the picture was a little too "spinney".

The frame is bare polished alloy that has been clear lacquered to prevent oxidisation.

Frighteningly quick

Not quite that quick!
As I've ridden a fixed wheel a grand total of three times now the speed is noticably absent....

Liking the Cannondale... were you inspired by the radiator?

How did you polish it? I heard from a unreliable source that yo shouldn't sand blast an aluminum Cannondale frame because they are so thin.

3inch black rise bars with white OURY grips

The frame was originally finished in brushed alloy with a clear lacquer. When I got it off fleabay it had been sandblasted, undercoated, then painted black.
The finish was pretty knacked- the ebay advert said that it "could do with a respray", I got bored one day and went to the local DIY shop for some nitromors...
Obviously my inspiration was the radiator- well spotted "me"!

The polishing was done once I had taken all the paint off, I used a little two man band called AC Metal FInishers down in South Bermondsey.
Total cost to have the frame polished and lacquered was £100.

The new one with the rest of the stable