Current Projects chat and miscellany

A cheaply sourced fixie, total cash expenditure so far.......£32.00 the rest either bartered, donated, or already lying around the garage!!

I like it, but how the fuck is it standing up?

That was meant for the griffin btw

it is standing up by the magic of photoshop I would imagine

Ah, yes i see the blurred cobbles now!

A cheaply sourced fixie, total cash expenditure so far.......£32.00 the rest either bartered, donated, or already lying around the garage!!

For £32 that pretty damn awesome.
I'd recommend new rear wheel though

i'd recomend some sort of chain tug, that wheel axel is dangerously close to the end of the dropouts

not quite finished in fact, still need a lock ring for the sprocket, and a couple of spacers to improve chainline, plus a couple of links in the chain.

that thing looks like a deathtrap

are those unicrack cranks/chain along with the rear wheel?

yes.

A cheaply sourced fixie, total cash expenditure so far.......£32.00 the rest either bartered, donated, or already lying around the garage!!

If you care about your kid get a proper back wheel, the front one would have been OK at the back. Sort out the lever and get him some foot retention.
For that price, its worth it!

Methinks your brake needs some attention too and for the love of god and all that is holy align your labels with your valve caps* (and burn the contis).

*bikesnob loves this

http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=600&pictureid=6864

shimano ht2 cranks look great! They should make some track cranks like that

Old Falcon frame paint stripped, prep'd, rattle canned and laquered. Seems tough enough. Built for a friend.

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The shimano HT2 cranks are amazing, I am 16..5 stone, I have destroyed many square taper crank arm's, maybe through poor maintenance, not really possible with SHt2, the 105 it 140 quid

whats the chainline like and what exact chainline does a spok give?

I'm 99% sure spoks go for standard 42mm chainline.

The shimano HT2 cranks are amazing, I am 16..5 stone, I have destroyed many square taper crank arm's, maybe through poor maintenance, not really possible with SHt2, the 105 it 140 quid

I paid £170 for a DA crankset like that.

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i like lo pros. I like the look of them. I particularly like them when they've got tubing that curves somewhere on them. I wanted to build one and ride it and see what it was like. I did. The frame i eventually found in my size was flourescent pink, in columbus slx, and i got it for fifty quid. I got it set up right and with some good stuff and it rides great, really fast, really nippy, so much so that it's a fuckin blast and on top of that i think it looks absolutely awesome. It's great around town and good for thirty miles at least.

I suppose in a way i'm riding it to be on the money and in that sense for every person that thinks it's dope there are probably twenty that think i'm a fashion victim or whatever.. It's a shame cos for me it's about how cool the bike looks, i'm even aware i probably sell it short, with my age and lumbering size.

But what i'm not going to do for a good while is get bogged down in plain, purely functional fair and lust after the kinds of bikes that a section of this forum's old men from the south and west seem to deem worthier and more admirable than the ones being ridden round the east. Give me a choice right now between riding round town on a lo pro and riding round town on two grand's worth of a bike i consider boring and far beyond my needs - well, the latter for me is far more of an affectation.

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http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=600&pictureid=6864

oh my.....

Almost finished. So good to ride.

@ shibbylibertine a change of saddle to a better looking black one and it'll look lush.

Hi I'm new to lfgss, I have just finished building up a new fixie so I figure why not show it here. It's an old Holdsworth Monsoon frame that was really rusty so I got it resprayed. I've built it up with basic components mainly stuff off my previous fixie. I tried to keep it old school racer looking.

I have another bike, it's not fixed but it's kinda unusual as it's a low pro. I've just finished getting it up and running as well. So here are some photos of that as well.