Current Projects chat and miscellany

@glockhart - classy build. very classy build.

all people who do not like photographs of bikes made at a proper distance,
please do not pay attention to the following:

PUCH mistral
columbus slx tubing fully chromed under paint
seat tube size 60cm c-c
top tube size 58cm c-c
daccordi fork
miche - mavic ma3 cd rear wheel
velocity - rigida dp18 (powdercoated RAL 4006) front wheel
shimano 600ax aero crankset (1" threaded pedals with huge bearings instead of axles)
rhino seatpost
3ttt stem 120mm
halflink chain
'cocoa' bar 31cm (powdercoated RAL 8016)

before anyone asks:
the bar did not break in a crash and needed to be taped...

lovely, my only but are the bars, but you may love them, so all good.

For a Puch that's simply lovely, not sure why you need to take the full bike shot far away! it's current project, not some kind of Flickr GIF award-giving group.

Anyhow since my father getting his new Bob Jackson soon, I'm going to turn his old commute bike into a road bike, althought I have been dying to own a road bike I still need to make a lots of change on his old Genesis Day01 bike, particularly the bar, the brake and gear levers, and quite likely the inept groupset, I rather like the frame and it handle really nice for a cheap bicycle.

I know groupset are usually expensive, and this one is the bottom-of-the-line Shimano, while it work, it's a little dodgy to shift and are quite temperamentive like a dog on heat, do anyone have any suggestion to replace the current groupset? or any tweak/part to improve the current one? after all the last thing I want to do is spend a lots of money on it.

p.s. a lots of the part is rust to fuck, epsecially the pedals, can't fucking removed them.

is that a 'current projects'-ish photograph edscoble? or shall i crop it a bit more to waste less space? (i think i read too many magazines about architecturephotography. maybe this is a reason for these unsuitable aesthetics.)

i forgot to mention that i plan to change the straight bar to some kind of drop bars. but they will also be 'cocoarized'.

Almost there, just in search of an affordable C-Record crank but that might be a while.

Tried to stay true to the Raleigh track tradition with full Campag, and this is my very first Brooks saddle.

your chain & pedals appear to be fitted incorectly.

is that a 'current projects'-ish photograph edscoble? or shall i crop it a bit more to waste less space? (i think i read too many magazines about architecturephotography. maybe this is a reason for these unsuitable aesthetics.)

yes.

stop wasting money on photog magazines.

Almost there, just in search of an affordable C-Record crank but that might be a while.

Tried to stay true to the Raleigh track tradition with full Campag, and this is my very first Brooks saddle.

please tell me you are not going to put her on the road.

look likely to be a on/off track bike.

please tell me you are not going to put her on the road.

Track only, if I keep it.

It's tighter and steeper than everything else I have.

very nice dwez.

this might sting, but im not sure that Brooks quite cuts the mustard on a track raleigh

They've always gone hand in hand. Same company for quite a while.

@dwayne love it. Eddie might have a point re-the saddle. Put the brooks on the Stratton?

@jonny I wondered what had happened to that Chesini. I like that frame. You got new forks? Look noice.

will do captain. though have just realised i need some grips on there. i wish Fizik made grips.

if fizik did make grips....oh boy.

What the fuck is it with you two and fizik? Start a fucking NOS fizik forum or something.

Period correct though

@Eddie - I'm not sure dmc will value your opinion enough for it to sting ;)

Almost there, just in search of an affordable C-Record crank but that might be a while.

Tried to stay true to the Raleigh track tradition with full Campag, and this is my very first Brooks saddle.

this is really fucking nice

That, my friends, is professional or a team professional, not a swallow. Heh.

Almost there, just in search of an affordable C-Record crank but that might be a while.

Tried to stay true to the Raleigh track tradition with full Campag, and this is my very first Brooks saddle.

Very nice!

My Goff (coming to a current projects near you soon) is full campag too. Which bars did you go with?

I have cinelli 65's with a 1a for the full Italian build thing, but have some nitto 123's and a jaguar stem cause they work better.

Polished Cinelli 65-42s which came with the frame, and a 130mm 2A stem from eBay.

dwayne - you have knocked my socks off.

^^ and he has preeeettty long socks

That, my friends, is professional or a team professional, not a swallow. Heh.

Could be a sprinter

[although most likely a team pro]