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White would be perfect then...

#Tijs ? help ?

If you consider the storage and the sellability I'm not so sure withered_preacher...

I just find beyond contact points (which are already great on the CHPT3) there’s no point meddling with Bromptons.

Dreading seeing this in 2 months time with deep carbon wheels, disc brakes, carbon Seatpost and bars, ti everything else..... just doesn’t really make sense to me.

I have an unused Soma Hwy One, high polish, 42 cm, 26.0 mm diameter, drop 130 mm, reach 75 mm that would look and fit well if you want a modern compact bar.

I'll gladly take that if @LeMesjeu doesn't want it

Been giving my Donohue a bit of a spruce up after winter. It got an absolute battering when I was using it for work last winter, I put off sorting out the bare metal until now. Got all the rust off and gave it a few coats of clear coat. Should hopefully protect the steel a little bit.
Needs a new chain as well. What's the go to 1 1/8" chain?

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What's the go to 1 1/8" chain

I always go for Wippermann or kmc, whichever is cheapest

Nothing I do makes sense on this forum. Just watch and enjoy the rollercoaster ride.

Cheap kmc has done me well for last few years ,kmc 510 I think

First ride out on this today, still some fettling to do with saddle and bars but i’m super-pleased with it. Bought the frame at the start of last year but have moved the family up north and had 3 jobs since then... also it’s the first time i’ve put a drive-train together without resorting to outside help.

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What's the go to 1/8" chain?

If it's going to be rode hard and put up wet Wippermann 1Z1 or one of the RB coated KMC chains.

All finished!

Red and white all the way.

Hitting the classified shortly

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Ignoring the saddle-bogey, that's restrained and easy on the eye.

No gratuitous champagne in the background either...

Red and white

Some adjustments and automatic pedals

Yikes. A 23mm Conti 4000 actually touches the seat tube on my Joe Waugh frame.

Any ideas for a 20mm tyre? I’d wanted to put gumwalls on this but now looks unlikely.

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A 23mm Conti 4000 actually touches the seat tube on my Joe Waugh frame.

Is the wheel all the way in the back of the dropouts? If the frame has any, perhaps remove the wheel alignment screws in the dropouts.

Dimple with a dimpler?

There are no alignment screws. It's got vertical dropouts and it's properly in there - I've double checked and triple checked.

Looks like I might be ordering some 20mm Supersonics.

Sure that's not a classic TT frame? Angles look pretty steep.

You might get a bit more clearance with a 19mm internal rim.

It's an option but I think I'd rather run lower volumes than start deforming a 25 year old bike.

Presumably it'd have to go off to a frame builder for that?

It possibly is a TT frame. The seller didn't give much info and I was blinded by the lovely colours.

That tyre is on a 17mm internal/23mm external rim so it may be that a wider rim spreads it a bit more. Even then, as soon as you pick up any grit, it'll start to eat the paint.

Thankfully this was always going to be a bike for sunny cafe rides.

Bravo - that is absolutely lovely.

Conti come up big. Worth trying a 22mm from another brand before jumping down to 20mm (which is getting hard to find now). e.g. or this