Current Projects chat and miscellany

oh, and harry do blb sell half links?

The stem is a Titan. I have another one for sale, it needs replating though:
http://212.241.204.188/$sitepreview/wombatwombat.co.uk/benforsale/bikeparts/bikeparts.htm

Tres nice Josh. Bravo.

@Superprecise

Josh- this looks like it will build up way beyond lovely. Great work on the photography, too- although I'd have expected nothing less...

I'd love to see the finished bike in the flesh sometime (if I am ever in London again...)

Mystery road/path frame.
I just need some french threaded pedals, bb nipple, seatpost bolt and white cloth bartape to finish.
If I can find out who made the frame, i'll get it refinished in more period colours.

looks nice, but please rotate your bars slightly upwards.

it looks like it's sad.

Golden Flares...... mark up the bars very accurately with a fine marker, one first, cut with a tensioned, new hacksaw blade, use offcut to mark up other side, file ends for final finish and fine tune.. feint heart never won maiden fair !p
ps use a vice to hold the bars while cutting

I just aquired a frame for a project, does anybody know much about Old Look Carbon frames and what problems I should keep an eye out for.
Do I have to use special paint on Carbon?
This is going to be a slow burning project due to other commitments but I am looking forward to it and having something unique to ride, that hopefully doesn't creak and squeek like my current bike.

ps use a vice to hold the bars while cutting

pps. use a soft jawed vice to hold the bars while cutting.

£385 ??????????
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Single-Speed-Holdsworth-Equipe_W0QQitemZ170395662161QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Bikes_GL?hash=item27ac5f7751#ht_564wt_736

Mystery road/path frame.
I just need some french threaded pedals, bb nipple, seatpost bolt and white cloth bartape to finish.
If I can find out who made the frame, i'll get it refinished in more period colours.

Looks a bit like a Holdsworth - the track ends and forks do anyway, never seen lugs like that on a Holdsworth though(t)...

Looks a bit like a Holdsworth - the track ends and forks do anyway, never seen lugs like that on a Holdsworth though(t)...

That frame acctually is a little similar to my harry quinn track/path frame,

they both have very thin rear stays and similar forks, mine though has the lugs picked out in blue so they are clearer to make out.

The track ends are also the same.

Whatever it is, its a very nice frame.

Check my profile for pictures and see what you think.

It was the bermondsey hacksaw massacre last night, the old girls raleigh frame I posted a few pages back is now ~ 4grams lighter and won't have a derailer anytime soon.

pps. use a soft jawed vice to hold the bars while cutting.

As long as you put the part of the bar you are removing in the vice then it doesn't really matter what vice you use as you will be throwing that part of the bar away. That's my approach anyway.

Why don´t you guys just use s pipe cutter?

I´ve been using this, there´s nothing that can even come close to the result.

They're just bars. If you have a pipe cutter then great, but a hacksaw will do...especially if you have a vice.

i've always cut bars using a hacksaw with them in the stem, get a mate to help if around with stabilising the bike. results aren't exactly always straight or perpendicular but it doesn't really matter when you have bar end plugs in.

For most bars I can get away with just looking at them, and thinking the exact width I want, however I have been known to bring out the Karate Chop for the more tricky customers.

^
YouTube - coconut chop (FAIL version)

ha! what a tool.

here is the completed lady bike - I'm rather please with it, as is she :)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MHmdaX4R_l4/SvGt9RkE87I/AAAAAAAAAN4/q-NbEV599rw/s1600/DSC_0953-copy.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MHmdaX4R_l4/SvGtz2p3bEI/AAAAAAAAANw/otRGuh_wJBs/s1600/DSC_0946-copy.jpg

cuurently working on a vertical dropout dawes tourer, is a pain in the f-a*se, gonna take me another month or so to complete as Iv just run out of funds for this month haha. Am currently riding it to work and its a bloody POS but hey its absolutely thief proof.

why does the site always un-embed my images?

Columbus hexagonal
Chrome lugs
Full campag

Its got a hexagonal BB shell too:-)

And its even nice to ride!

Columbus hexagonal
Chrome lugs
....................
And its even nice to ride!

that's incredible, well done

Don't be shy, give us more photos.

Looks great! And worth the wait.