Current Projects chat and miscellany

Bought this off the forum a few months ago. 2nd coat.light sanding between.

Changed Crank and pedals.Oh, and changed saddle for Cinelli Unicanitor.
Gonna change bar tape at some point, any suggestions?

Bar tape - Black. Job done.

Really lovely bike chancertime.

@ Wingedangel

Lovely Zeus and Benotto.
That's the right head tube sticker on the Benotto?

this is so good. i am putting this in porn thread right now despite the front brake

hey man, is this powder coat or some sort of wet/acrylic paint? I am asking cause i had some frames powder coated and i don't like the way it covers it in a thick layer. although it's defntly more reliable and scratch resistant than acryl...

Bought this off the forum a few months ago. 2nd coat.light sanding between.

My mess of a current project is a couple steps closer to being less of a mess.

Slack chain - wheel not in properly. Only noticed after I took the photo.
Bars at a shit angle too.

Saw this on the Ride East, really nice dude!

Its just rattlecan paint, what's that ? Acrylic ? I don't know.
Anyway even after a few coats its really thin but the lug work shows well. I am gonna laquer spray -sand- laquer spray-sand 3 or 4 times.

I know rattle can chips quite easy but I don't mind it looking abit weathered. and besides a professional respray was abit much to be honest. Gotta try stuff 'aint
ya ?

hey man, is this powder coat or some sort of wet/acrylic paint? I am asking cause i had some frames powder coated and i don't like the way it covers it in a thick layer. although it's defntly more reliable and scratch resistant than acryl...

I like this bike edscoble, particularly the lugwork. It's nice.[

QUOTE=edscoble;1378000]The wheelset only cost me £135 from Freshtripe, great value for a lightweight wheelset.

check out Velo Orange rims, that's the one I'm using.

Holdsworth's perfect now, it's only the stem that was a bit off.

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh167/edscoble/Holdsworth-6.jpg?t=1273067589[/QUOTE]

Finished!

chainline's not perfect but it'll be OK until I get round to redishing the wheel or getting someone to put a dimple in my chainstay.

^ that i like
how come you need a dimple - innit a track frame?

thanks.

it's a track frame but the back of the chainring bolts contact the chainstay with the correct length of BB; it's a few millimeters out with the longer BB and a bit noisy. It's also a new chain and chainring too so things will (hopefully) bed down a little in time.

Finally finished my Roberts - took it to the Isle of Wight at the weekend and it rides like a dream. Full DA 7700 groupset. Apologies for the iphoto.

Pics of my condor to come...

Is that^ one of the new colts?

it's a track frame but the back of the*** chainring bolts contact the chainstay*** with the correct length of BB...

Shorter bolts?

Sorter bolts may not work. I guess the heads of the nuts touch the stays.
Drill the spider of the crank for sunken heads or dimple the stay.

finally found most of the parts needed to build up my used mercian vigorelli...

panaracer paselas... of course... (on advice from Mr. C & reading Ed's posts) on silver mavic open pros laced to suzue promax sb. They have a special place in my heart since I used them on my first ever wheelset, which got destroyed when I was hit by a car.

Not sure about handlebars yet, either going for bullhorns or some raleigh northroad type bars, like ones ed posted a few hundred pages back (which appear as one of the top results when googling raleigh north road.. haha).

well excited!

this just arrived in the post anonymously

it is not the stussy version

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A white brooks? whoever sent you that obviously thinks you're a screaming homosexual, i think you need some white cowboy sidis and a big sparkly hat to top off the look...

Assless 3/4 bib chaps?

ha ha

just picked this up complete for around £250. very happy with it but i'll be changing the stem/bars, the seatpost, the saddle and maybe the forks.

Aha, nice work james. More limited than the 'limited edition'! Fantastic.

Assless 3/4 bib chaps?

HA!

Saw this on the Ride East, really nice dude!

Thanks. I'm glad it's not just me who likes it.

@ DJ
PS. don't ride it in jeans...

... or crotchless panties and chaps