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Some things never change!
Reading all this shit talk about the 'sacrilegious' po-lopro is hilarious!To all you folks getting your panties in a bunch over what has happened to the Orrell...It's one of fucking hundreds of lo-pros that would have gone the same way as the majority of other lo-pros which have been bought and sold through ebay and this very forum.
Everybody wets their pants when they see curvy tubes and a garish 8O's paintjob which is still intact and they have dreams of owning one...so they buy one, spend months searching for a perfect 24" or 65Oc front wheel...usually make do with an old box section wolber which doesn't match their rear H+son, but oh well, the 4" rise bars will help...then they ride them to the pub a few times before deciding that their backs hurt too much, and then they re-sell them to another forum member with dreams of owning one to fully rebuild to it's former glory....they then spend months hunting down the period correct parts and disc wheels....then they ride it to the pub a few times before deciding their backs hurt too much and the cycle continues.At least this time somebody has decided to put one to good use. All this talk of blasphemy is bollocks.
What's more blasphemous...having an old pink lo-pro sitting in your hallway being ridden to the pub once or twice each summer, or having the balls to chop one to pieces and make something else out of it that will actually get used regularly?Well done I say. Beats the hell out of seeing another boring old track bike built back up with vintage campag and brooks saddle and tape which will also only get ridden a few times because it's 'too nice' to ride in the rain!
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Everybody wets their pants when they see curvy tubes and a garish 8O's paintjob which is still intact and they have dreams of owning one..
now hang on a minute, i piss my pants when i see one, especially when the cretin riding it to the pub has his cap at a jaunty angle and saddle far to high doing the monkey fucking a chicken dance.
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Some things never change!
Reading all this shit talk about the 'sacrilegious' po-lopro is hilarious!To all you folks getting your panties in a bunch over what has happened to the Orrell...It's one of fucking hundreds of lo-pros that would have gone the same way as the majority of other lo-pros which have been bought and sold through ebay and this very forum.
Everybody wets their pants when they see curvy tubes and a garish 8O's paintjob which is still intact and they have dreams of owning one...so they buy one, spend months searching for a perfect 24" or 65Oc front wheel...usually make do with an old box section wolber which doesn't match their rear H+son, but oh well, the 4" rise bars will help...then they ride them to the pub a few times before deciding that their backs hurt too much, and then they re-sell them to another forum member with dreams of owning one to fully rebuild to it's former glory....they then spend months hunting down the period correct parts and disc wheels....then they ride it to the pub a few times before deciding their backs hurt too much and the cycle continues.At least this time somebody has decided to put one to good use. All this talk of blasphemy is bollocks.
What's more blasphemous...having an old pink lo-pro sitting in your hallway being ridden to the pub once or twice each summer, or having the balls to chop one to pieces and make something else out of it that will actually get used regularly?Well done I say. Beats the hell out of seeing another boring old track bike built back up with vintage campag and brooks saddle and tape which will also only get ridden a few times because it's 'too nice' to ride in the rain!
I agree 100%, well done sir! People need to get out of this ornament bike mentality and accept that some people are that little bit more willing to innovate and modify.
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This whole argument is bonkers and I love it, just like the polorrell.
Hang bikes on the wall, you got a museum, or make them work for you. You decide.
I'd say about 50/50 thought it's great and didn't, respectively. No need to get your knickers in a twist about people getting their knickers in a twist. We're all allowed to love or hate what we want: Aesthetics innit! There's no accounting for taste. I agree this lo-pro veneration seems slightly shit: they looked, when all fuxied up, passe about three years ago.
All this suggests Reynolds should bloody make some more curved seattubes.
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My point though Skully is that bikes were made to be ridden, and yet people get all pissy about somebody respraying an old colnago and then using it for commuting or in this case chopping a lo-pro and then re-using it as a polo bike when they are still using the bikes for actual riding.
My grievance was more with people who act like it's a bigger crime to alter the original appearance of a bike, and then actually ride the thing, than it is to have it sitting in their hallway looking all original and then use it to hang their jacket on for 363 days of the year.
Perhaps the forum motto should be changed to "It's all about the ride that you can't go on because the ground is still damp and it might make my original paintwork dirty...and besides, my back is still hurting from riding my lo-pro to the pub last summer" ?
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Shame it's not Use The Fucking Bike. :]
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F34Rthefixed , how is the toe overlap once playing???
everyone asks that, but i honestly don't notice any kind of toe overlap at all, i started playing polo on a brooklyn machine works gangsta mind, which has much more overlap, so i guess i adjusted?
See^, I tried to warn him before...
This^.
Why is this different from all the remanning shite posted here.
It's his bike, bigs ups for having the cojones to do it.
I prolly wouldn't even know where to start ;)...+1.
thanks man, many hours of research went into making the geometry work :)
All that effort and the tiniest buckle in your wheel will put you out of a game.
Go figure.
nope. what you can't see from that picture is how much clearance there is on either sides of the tyre....
Some things never change!
Reading all this shit talk about the 'sacrilegious' po-lopro is hilarious!To all you folks getting your panties in a bunch over what has happened to the Orrell...It's one of fucking hundreds of lo-pros that would have gone the same way as the majority of other lo-pros which have been bought and sold through ebay and this very forum.
Everybody wets their pants when they see curvy tubes and a garish 8O's paintjob which is still intact and they have dreams of owning one...so they buy one, spend months searching for a perfect 24" or 65Oc front wheel...usually make do with an old box section wolber which doesn't match their rear H+son, but oh well, the 4" rise bars will help...then they ride them to the pub a few times before deciding that their backs hurt too much, and then they re-sell them to another forum member with dreams of owning one to fully rebuild to it's former glory....they then spend months hunting down the period correct parts and disc wheels....then they ride it to the pub a few times before deciding their backs hurt too much and the cycle continues.At least this time somebody has decided to put one to good use. All this talk of blasphemy is bollocks.
What's more blasphemous...having an old pink lo-pro sitting in your hallway being ridden to the pub once or twice each summer, or having the balls to chop one to pieces and make something else out of it that will actually get used regularly?Well done I say. Beats the hell out of seeing another boring old track bike built back up with vintage campag and brooks saddle and tape which will also only get ridden a few times because it's 'too nice' to ride in the rain!
nice one scott ;)
I'm sure something like this would of been possible...
possible yes. but itd be weaker. it would add a shitload of weight to the frameset if you wanted the same strength....
plus more welds = more labour.
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You'd also need a banana shaped seatpost! ^^^
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You could weld one. :P
I'd cut the seat tube from an old Moser lo=pro and use that.
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You'd also need a banana shaped seatpost! ^^^
true!
we were originally going to go down the flying gate (vertical seat tube) route with this, but the restrictions in where you could have the seat were too many for my liking.
though i think you missed the point entirely scott. bikes aren't for riding, they're for arguing about on the internet!
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get a thompson seat post that has setback and switch it around, bingo
what angle would the clamp be at?
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£126.36 for the RS30 at Ribble so any other suggestions around that price?
*Looking at you mdcc_tester
I've got a pair of RS30s. Compared with the others, they have bladed spokes (so do RS20s, but not 10s or R500s), and this combined with the shorter spoke to the deeper rim should make them best aerodynamically. The deeper rim is also stiffer, and the spoke bracing angle is marginally better than the shallow RS20. Against that, the straight pull spokes would be a pain to replace if they ever broke, so the R500 with plain guage j-bend spokes has that going for it. I've had R500s in the past and they are sound, albeit basic.
Depending on what you're using them for, it may weigh against all Shimano wheels that they don't have cartridge bearings, and Shimano's so-called seals are nothing of the sort, so they are not ideal for an all-weather daily driver. Merlin have Aksiums for £126 for account holders, which is my choice for all weather use (I've got them on my winter bike), but for racing the RS30 is probably faster.
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I'm sure something like this would of been possible...