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What headset is it @Gaston_Fr

Yes. They're great!
Tester is wrong about the rims though. A319 has a brake track, the XM319 is disc specific and doesn't, not even underneath the paint (not anodized).

@Gaston_Fr inverse chainset, sugino arms + omnom chainring :)

Mavic if my eyes are still good

I'm pretty sure that's what he was implying.

Putting together an all-rounder functional bike this week:

Interesting selection of square cogs by the front wheel.

I prefer the simple SRAM ring.

The grey ring echos the rims.

needs a Record Ti seatpost, or something shiny at least :)
not long enough

that's the point of my indecision

Malou is right it's a Mavic headset.

Tester is wrong

If we take your word for it that the XM319 is painted, that just makes it an even worse choice, unless @kjlem has disc brakes on his fixie biek, in which case the XM319 will be fine.

Sram or Sugino ?

Sugino, because it's bigger :-)

sram!

Sugiram!

The bigger the better. twyms.

Change the Omnom cranks!

BLB pedals? :x

No brakes on the sweet fixie. That's why I was looking at disc specific rims. Thanks for your help.

The Omnom is stiff and light! steel is real and wite is the new pink...
The BLB pedals are comfortable, the bearing are fluids and the all is so light, no bunny up so no problems.
Need a big 51 gray sram ring a Zen or a 44rn...

Looks good! Post some more photos when it's finished please.

@Gaston_Fr and @ghostface

I don’t have any indications on what tubing it’s built from. The label says it’s specially constructed for Gios but doesn’t mention a constructor.

There were carbon forks on it (aerobladed; not the Mizuno for Gios) but I didn’t like them. I found chromed Gios Team forks on Ebay but the seller isn’t answering my mails. So I’m looking for some original Gios forks or “slim” carbon forks.

NEW BIKE DAY!!!

Finally my 'beater' bike has been built by lmnh. First impression is the ride so comfortable and handles really well! Unfortunately because of the ratio I got sent the chain had to be replaced with a half link and as I prefer the traditional brake set up (right=front and left=rear) I had to replace the bar tape with some fizik so touch:

(Sorry about the shitty iPhone picture btw)

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Unfortunately because of the ratio I got sent the chain had to be replaced with a half link

Wut? Sticking a halflink into a proper chain, or changing the ratio might be preferable.

Sorry maybe a little clarification would help I guess.

The drop out are very short and with a normal chain the wheel was either sitting too close to the end of the drop out or it was hitting the callipers.

I am happy with the current set up atm, but I will probably end up upgrading parts (as I usually do) and probably change chainset and rear rub to fixed which will hopefully allow me to put pack a normal chain back on.

cant you just add a single half link to a normal chain?

^ this

Lose the gold chain