Current Projects chat and miscellany

Just match the spacer colour to the stem and I think it'll look right (fwiw I'd go with black stem/spacers and silver bars).

Yeah, i'm not sure I am a fan of the layback post.. all of the stuff is just what I have to hand, rather than building with parts I want.

Thing will get replaced, i'd like a CK h/s but it's 1" threadless and I don't wanna pay £90!
Previous owner also ovalised the bars by tightening it to like 10NM rather than 5 :-(

He doesn't ride bikes! silly...

;)

This is me not riding my bike the 5gold I have not ridden yet so can't say

Customer at work decided to throw away his average road bike without a back wheel after buying a new one.

Already started building it up, rear wheel is a Tiagra/Open Sport which going to have an 8 speed 11-28 cassette (8x1), Tiagra rear long derailleur, indexed downtube shifter and a TA Cyclotouriste 44t crankset.

Handlebar's a Nitto Moustache.

going to be a 'semi-beater' bicycle.

that is not nice :(

It's given me a semi.

^ crap joke.

Yes. Where did you get the stem and handlebars from?

Got the stem on flEa-bay and the handlebars are NOS from a dutch website http://defietsenmaker.nl/, not cheap but they are perfect, bought the new Pinarello decals there too.

^^^^^^saddle's too high.

ed what happened to your british light weight and portuer projects?

Sold the Porteur due to needing the fund, and the British Lightweight still exist, just on hold at the moment.

Looks nice ed.

The colours remind me of classic windbreakers from addidas.

These colours:

can not say i see too much in common in terms of colors to be honest

did you swap the front tyres with the rear?

didnt, front has always been front, I know the dangers involved. Looks really skidded but actually it has some paint on it from a bicycle lane paint art happening thing last summer.

Got now thight road fork and 26" front wheel on the muddy. Cheesylopro. He he, dunno what I am gonna do with it. Already got a steamroller for daily riding so this one should be somewhat stupid.

@ed - always nice to make 'something from nothing'. the things people throw away...

Also in the 'blue' theme: My C4 classic carbon is almost ready for the road (wheels will be black though)

can not say i see too much in common in terms of colors to be honest

Thanks for your honesty. I'd say it has 2 things in common. Blue. And White.

i ahve looked into it and trying to find a second hand set
but there seem to be none
cant afford a new set :(

too bad you missed on the pair I've just sold :(

Are you trying to get the whole of LFGSS onto Cyclotouristes? You keep recommending them, and people rightly keep ignoring you. They are not very good, they are pretty much obsolete, and there are plenty of better, cheaper, modern cranks to do anything Cyclotouristes can do.

That CB should have Williams or Chater-Lea to be 'correct', although a classic Record or one of the modern clones would also look better than the Miche

I wish that would stop him...

:-|

[it's] going to be a 'semi-beater'

Whatever floats your boat...

This going to be built up as a my comfy bike. Ignore the wheels. im going to have some black H+son TB14's put on when funds allow.

Been thinking about saving this old useless frame that will probably be scrap and making some sort of fixed mtb/freestyle f-g/cruiser/beater

Almost done, a lots lighter than originally, just need to get the unused Marathon Plus tyre I have lying around at home (original were too worn) flat pedal, bar tape and the 8 speed indexed downtube shifter to arrived in the post;

hehe, soon this ratty barwagon is ready:

622/40mm back, 559/47mm front. Barspins if timed correctly with pedals.

Now we're talking.

that is not nice :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjwaqZfjIY