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Titan stem/bar from Tour De Ville, cost something like £45 I think.

they're rare so you won't find the same bar again with the gold centre, but you can just get some riser with sweep, chop it a bit and flip it upside down if it's your thing.

Yes, it's Titan handlebar/stem combination. VO Milan handlebar has pretty much similar geometry.

wow the head tube badge from the peugot sticker sheet are lovely too

My latest find - a 1985 Claud Butler Canyon MTB, one of the first mountain bikes to be built in the UK. Just loving the antler bars :)

I used clear waterslide decal paper. Maybe you could simply use plain white decal paper and just cut the stripes out.

Ahhh, ok.
I'm finishing up a Holdsworth road bike conversion today in a similar metalic grey to yours (it's just to sell on, I'm doing up another bike to ride). Going down to Halfords so might get a few tester cans to try out on some tubing I have and see if I can do it well with masking tape.

It does look really nice, but have you moved the back hub so far forward in the dropout just for the picture? I wouldn't feel very comfortable riding around like that...
Monsta

Claud Butler look awesome, I love old MTB geo, look like your is almost original, good find!

Stick some fat tyres FTW! Big Apple/Fat Frank 2.35.

My latest find - a 1985 Claud Butler Canyon MTB, one of the first mountain bikes to be built in the UK. Just loving the antler bars :)

just so you know, that cage on the back is upside down. i'd just remove it all together, though.

Haha, good spot.

Indeed, as someone said it's handy that way to bring back the paper on a Sunday morning :)
Picture taken just as I'd got it out of car so no time to change to guard :(

it's a neat bike. supah fat boardwalk tires all the way. has potential.

it's a neat bike. supah fat boardwalk tires all the way. has potential.

like this 80's Stumpjumper;

that exactly what i was thinking. just didn't feel like digging somethign up as example.

I wonder if it's worth simply putting geared on mine, the downside is that it's design for internal gear only (got EBB).

I picked up this Condor Alu Pista frame and fork from Ev the other day and spent an entire evening peeling off duct tape and cleaning up what was beneath. Other than the cable stops having been crudely hacked off from the underside of the top tube the paint job by 'Winter' is in relatively good condition.

Earlier today I took a dremel to the ragged edges of what were the cable stops and I'm about to chuck a tin of Nitromoors over it and proceed to wet sand and polish. I've ordered a new set of decals and head badge from Belinda at Condor and depending on how I feel about the polished finish I may or may not dabble with a DIY spray job. I have some left over rattle cans from paint I had mixed up for a car related project so it would be cost effective. It would mean I'd have a matching colour scheme with the vehicle which could either look marvellous or wank. Decision time is not yet upon me. Alternatively I may just drop it off to Armourtex for black powdercoat. (Decals have been ordered in white).

As it was the other day

And currently

I can see why he wanted to cover up the Winter decals, but that penguin is badass

The penguin does kinda rock but Winter font and colour way disagrees with me.

general question;
i need to get a rear derailleur hanger for the mercian cause it doesnt have one on the dropouts. i am getting the frame refurnished with vaz, so what would be best.
id like to get a grand sport on it

latest find, this one is going to be easier than the last few,
again, remove basket and advert, but it already has fixed hub and brooks saddle,
just gonna get a njs nitto stem and bars and she will be done

indi folk rock nonsence and a butchers, is there nothing they can't do?

Peugeot frame from the early 50's. It was never been used or even painted.
It took more time than I expected but now it's finished.

That really is very very nice.

like this 80's Stumpjumper;

Is that the original fork?

general question;
i need to get a rear derailleur hanger for the mercian cause it doesnt have one on the dropouts. i am getting the frame refurnished with vaz, so what would be best.
id like to get a grand sport on it

http://www.rememberdelaware.com/p-85473-index-derailleur-hanger-plate-with-nut-and-bolt-shimano-compatible.aspx?gdftrk=gdfV21133_a_7c351_a_7c2656_a_7c85473

or something similar?

I picked this up this week,

Holdsworth Mistral, i'll make it my SS
full 531 and campag dropouts it seems, so not to bad a bike for the doller.

will also mean i have a match (kinda) to my other holdsworth

one question, i was gonna run straight bars on this, has anyone had any experience of short front brake cables when running to a center pull style break?

omgwtf?!

one question, i was gonna run straight bars on this, has anyone had any experience of short front brake cables when running to a center pull style break?

The cable run will be no worse than a modern cyclocross bike, but if it were mine I'd still put Tektro dual pivot callipers on it. Just make sure you get levers designed for road brakes, as MTB levers for V-brakes don't combine well with road callipers.

The cable run will be no worse than a modern cyclocross bike, but if it were mine I'd still put Tektro dual pivot callipers on it. Just make sure you get levers designed for road brakes, as MTB levers for V-brakes don't combine well with road callipers.

ahh cool i'm sure i can find something, the brakes are nice and powerful for teh rain up her so rather not replace whats not broken,

i'll fine some reasonable levers then

got wheels and brake wooop.

omgwtf?!

itmakesperfectsense

itmakesperfectsense

To somebody who doesn't know how wheels work