Current Projects chat and miscellany

looks a million bucks (drachma)

Awesome! Matching frame/forks/pedals.

Please tell me you're going to have some bright yellow bar tape or something. It will look amazing.

So he can put it in FGG?

maybe not. ill put it all together and then post a pic and then you can tell me if yellow seems such a good idea.

YouTube- bananaman

My dad used to tell me to eat banana so I can become bananaman and fight the bullies at school.

why can't our bike scheme be bikes like thems?

Yes. I know, because the bikes would get stripped and bastardised in no time - however, one can dream.

I tried to fit the bar to the wheel but it wasn't working :)

You're not trying hard enough.

how low can you get??

You're not trying hard enough.

http://www.yellowjersey.org/NITTO65.JPG

so many unconventional choices here. just curious, why the drop bars with the half tape and cross levers?

Spent most of the day sorting the brake cabling out. Still a bit of work to do, but nearly there.

Apologies for the crap picture, taken on a phone in the kitchen due to shitty weather...

http://edmiston.futura.com/flex/img/temp/IMAG0315_1.jpg

Awesome! Matching frame/forks/pedals.

just picked up an overbury's pioneer MTB
quite highly regarded back in the day
colombus cromor tubing

not the actual bike sadly, but this won bike of the month at retrobikes
i love the rear seat cluster the slightly off set rear stays
heres a thread about the build of the above would like to do something similar
http://www.retrobike.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=105850

bad photo here
can't wait to see it in the flesh

nice find, specially with those welds. have seen a few 531 Overburys, know some guys that are right into their retro MTB, possibly help you with parts there Dicki

so many unconventional choices here. just curious, why the drop bars with the half tape and cross levers?

it's actually decisions made from previous experience, I've had a couple of lo pros before and always used aeros - I just found the position a bit off, stretching forward made it less comfortable keeping my head up to watch the road and takes away from the compact nature of the beast, which is what makes lo pros so quick and agile in the first place.

strange it may seem, my riding position is roughly the same to using aeros, my arms are just at a different angle, and straight as opposed to bent slightly. It's only half tape as i don't tend to put my hands anywhere else on the bars - they're 3t superleggero gimondi's so there isn't really any space to rest your hands elsewhere. And the cross levers because I don't really use brakes much (and again, tough to fit anything else to these bars), just wanted something unobtrusive for emergencies/getting hassled by police.

Working on this neglected lot for my parents. One is a proper Dutch bike and the other is an Italian mixte with Ofmega City cranks and Shimano gears.
Just a general maintenance - new tyres/tubes, lubrication, adjustment etc.
Fun to go shopping or take a shortcut to the town through the fields from the country house.

Latest version of my 2008 Vigorelli. At this time purely built for velodrome.

^ Nice!

This is the state of my Visp at the moment. Just strayed it with a few coats lacquer, and got black planet x track forks, carbon stem and carbon seat post arriving soon. As well as bright pink bar tape.

Fuck me, it was white the other day! You been saving up them stickers for how long?!

Get yourself some proper cranks, Sugino 75's or something. :-)

I had a lot of stickers, and I still have a lot left. I got bored last night and stickered it up. Got the idea from The Lush. Yeah nice cranks would be good, they're next on the list, as well as spinergys or mavic ellipses or something.

I'd get some Ellipses, 75s and lose the brake.

the brakes going when the new forks arrive, they're not even drilled.
Would my Airwing bars be alright to shim from 26mm clamp to 31.8mm? I've got a couple shims but I'm not sure what size they are.