Current Projects chat and miscellany

Magic skyhooks? How is it standing up?

Im guessing......

If you can tell not only that it's been photoshopped, but by which EDITION of photoshop; congratulations sir, you have just won the internet.

That scissor is lush though. Out of interest, are they risers with an exceptional low rise, or just flats at a weird angle? It's only because I fucking hate flat bars, they would ruin the bike for me.

Yes, I stood it up using a hammer under the pedal and chopped it out (should be obvious enough as I spent less than a minute doing it!)

And Mechamorgan, I just ruined the bike for you as they are flat bars. I have just changed from a 3 inch rise riser and 50mm stem to a flat bar and a 70mm stem and the bike feels so much easier to ride faster. That sit up and beg position I had before doesn't do anything for performance...

Yes, I stood it up using a hammer under the pedal and chopped it out (should be obvious enough as I spent less than a minute doing it!)

And Mechamorgan, I just ruined the bike for you as they are flat bars. I have just changed from a 3 inch rise riser and 50mm stem to a flat bar and a 70mm stem and the bike feels so much easier to ride faster. That sit up and beg position I had before doesn't do anything for performance...

GOD DAMN YOU KERLEY YOU SON OF A BITCH! YOU'VE GONE AND RUINED IT!

I'm only joking, obviously if it was impairing your comfort or performance then it must be changed, I just don't like them anaesthetically.

I think you should cut the steerer and use risers.

I think you should shut up Max. :P

Probably a good idea... reports andyp, flounces

he is right though :)

Yes, I stood it up using a hammer under the pedal and chopped it out (should be obvious enough as I spent less than a minute doing it!)

And Mechamorgan, I just ruined the bike for you as they are flat bars. I have just changed from a 3 inch rise riser and 50mm stem to a flat bar and a 70mm stem and the bike feels so much easier to ride faster. That sit up and beg position I had before doesn't do anything for performance...

bike is set up wonderfully fun, but doubt yer going very fast with that gear ratio.

nice bike.

i'd stiffen the gear by about ten inches and throw risers, a rear brake, and a freewheel on it for super fast fun times.

just my opinion.

nice bike.

i have mailed columbus and they said i had to mail ceway, so i did, they said i had to mail colnago, havenot done that yet but i saw a 62 colnero bike that has the same tubing so i think i am going to buy that and use the tubes if i can buy the bike for not too much money

damn, bad luck, hope the colnero works out

^ actually the brand is called...

;)

and that would be a first in my book, butchering a bike for the tubes! hope you get it Fruit

Something completely different, and very un -fixie! The anti-dote to the pared-down singlespeed.
1984 Claud butler MTB, one of the very first American-style MTBs built in Britain.
Reconfigured afor countryside explorations in North Yorkshie, and urban use in York and London.

Here's the 'Before'...

and reb uilt but naked...

And almost finished, on a shakedown ride

Mate, you've totally inspired me!
I've got an Overbury's mountain bike at the back of my parents garage, 531 all terrain tubing and about a million braze-ons for racks and guards. It cost the ungodly sum of £425 (in 1985 I think). Original parts are shimano deore, and I've been trying to think of a way to resurrect it.
Vintage MTB cruisers are the future!
Once I finish the Coppi, obviously....

Here is how my Scissor looks now

Nice Kerley, should be fun around the New Forest.

bike is set up wonderfully fun, but doubt yer going very fast with that gear ratio.

I am going as fast as I am fit enough to go as more than half my riding is off road so the gear is a good compromise. I would struggle off road with anything much higher than 62GI as it can be a slog as it is!
And the road sections are just a nice high cadence which I like, 100rpm is over 18mph which does me (the road sections are where I rest up)

Sorry to be dense, but what make are these levers? They're VERY nice . . . .

dia comp.... tektro.... they're all over. basically any schwinn three speed had them back in the day.

sorry to you all but i live in the states and can't really help you (with my bucket of levers).... truth be told when ever i do a bike for someone the first thing i do is shit can those things for something like this.

here's the place dude bought them in your country:
http://www.freshtripe.co.uk/Freshtripe/Brakes%20%26%20Levers.html

and just so you know, they really don't work that well and tend (depending on the specific design) to take up quite a bit of bar space.... if there's a bend in the bar this can be a problem, especially because the levers themselves are so long. you can be forced to have things at awkward angles. some of them cannot clamp on any kind of curve whatsoever. the ones pictured above appear to be more tolerant of such a scenario, however.

I think they suck, personally. Why the hype?

i understand the appeal.... i just don't like dealing with them.

dia comp.... tektro.... they're all over

Those particular ones are Dia Compe, but Weinmann also made something very similar and most sheds will contain a couple of pairs as they were fitted pretty universally to your mum's shopping bike.

^ actually the brand is called...
;)
and that would be a first in my book, butchering a bike for the tubes! hope you get it Fruit

Peter, Fruit may be right.
Cornelo was/is home brand of NL wholesales Henk Kokke, St. Willebrord, NL
Colnero was one of the brands of Siemons, Bekkevoort, BE. Same as Diamant, Gianni Motta (later), Rider, ...

But they have a lot in common: the only exclusive items on their bikes were the stickers...


fruit - damn, as always.
Kerley, as Skully said, ace bike and garden. I hope you've got a BBQ, that would be the icing on the cake.
Borntoolate, it's mad and I love it. Those brake levers are stange. I'll have to check my old MTB in my parents garage to see if it has any rack/guard braze ons now.

when naked, favouritest steed i've seen in a while

that is a great job, well done.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4582044964_b575d14e01_b.jpg

Why the SRAM 2-axis levers?