Current Projects chat and miscellany

This is my latest build and I am very happy with it. It's a bit heavy but rides well.

That handlebar wrap made mine look very anorexia (cotton tape).

After a long wait, the finishing touch on the BJ

+1 to Armourtex for an awesome job that looks just as good as day 1.
I recommend 100% if anyone is sceptical.

Where did you get the sticker from? I have an old bob jackson I'm thinking of coating...

you could go for metal headtube badge

otherwise just email factory@bobjacksoncycles.demon.co.uk and ask for "white script Bob Jackson Down tube and crest stickers"

(or other colour for downtube, but not sure what they have)

H Lloyd do the nice old block-style decals but anything current (including the headcrest) you have to get from Bob Jackson themselves.

yeah their pdf is porn

Actually, when I was searching for mine, I did find these:

http://bicycledecals.net/bobjacksondecals.htm

But I'm not sure they're exactly pukka (the BJ ones aren't linked from their homepage, maybe because of BJ asking them to be removed). Plus, they're expensive. But they do blue, which H Lloyd don't.

I don't mind the pipe lagging on scoots' Dolan, goes well with the big matt tubes. What got me was the pedal reflectors! Nice build aside from all that though.

Rickert story.
Translated with Google from Dutch:

http://wielersport.slogblog.nl/post/1/3219

With great pleasure I read your stories about cycling and bike brands. Your shed / barn with old bikes must be a kind of Mecca for bike freaks, which I count myself also. Too bad the inspiration is not infinite. While reading, I wondered if you ever have the brand Rickert discussed. As far as I can remember not. I have had two Rickert bikes. Handmade by Hugo himself. It was in the seventies when we had a team in our region under the name Elite Salade. I.a. Joop, Fred, Reinier and Jos rode in those green jerseys. So do I. In our races in Germany I saw sometimes a Rickert. "Everything made to measure".
I went to Dortmund and then I ordered one and then another. Fine bikes made from Ishiwata tubing. And Hugo and his wife Doris are (were?) nice people. Only you could not really rely on when it was finished. Hugo was bad to say no and if you called it was just as unsuccessful. Until I was fed up and said: Next Saturday it must be ready. "Is allright Jupp," was the reply. When I got there around 11:00, there was built a frame to which the fork was missing. In the course of that day Hugo brazed one piece after another to each other. When it was finished, it was put into the primer and then painted, then Doris stickers pasted on it and the edges of the lugs hand of a line provided. Beautiful metallic white. It was very late when I came home that evening.
Very nice people and the bikes ran like a charm. What I also remember is the father of Doris or Hugo. An old German, who clearly had not yet moved away from 'that gute alte Zeit "He glorified" der Führer shameless. Often I heard that Saturday Doris Hugo or cry, "but Hör auf Vati, which redest Unsinn yes."
It was at the time the last war was in the news. The series 'Der Holocoust' was broadcast on German TV and it seemed only then (1978) the realization of what had happened began to sink filled with the German population. In any case, there were almost daily discussion programs on WDR or ARD TV. For "Vati" Rickert did not all that, he had his own truth. As a young man who rode and waited for a nice new frame, I flew in that discussion in full. The day was over before you realized it and in between I enjoyed Hugo's German craftsmanship and Dad's dark past. I keep a nice memory.

Regards,

Joep

Took it out for a spin in the glorious weather today:

More photos here

The blue Michelins are actually warming on me. I just need to invest in clipless, and perhaps find a shorter Modolo stem.

:):):)

If you don't want clipless and you want to keep with the Tricolor group, I've got a set of the aero pedals and cleats you could have. But I wouldn't if I were you, I prefer clipless.

Cheers, but I'd whack those on eBay if I were you. Those cleats are hens teeth!

I don't mind the pipe lagging on scoots' Dolan, goes well with the big matt tubes. What got me was the pedal reflectors! Nice build aside from all that though.

Those shit pedals/straps aren't really up to the application of the NoBrakes™ system.

Perhaps the pipe lagging offers some crash protection?

i think we had a historical moment here yesterday, hadnt' we??..

Rare, but not the first time I've learned something new here.

^ just the man I need :)

BB I just removed seemed at first to be no-name

but in faint letters I made out:

B 099
Slovakia Kinex RG
107 ISO

Using this information, is it possible to tell whether this BB is english or italian threads and/or manufacturer ?

Rare, but not the first time I've learned something new here.

first time in my two and a half years here for sure

After a long wait, the finishing touch on the BJ

+1 to Armourtex for an awesome job that looks just as good as day 1.
I recommend 100% if anyone is sceptical.

More pics god damn you!!!

B 099
Slovakia Kinex RG
107 ISO

Using this information, is it possible to tell whether this BB is english or italian threads and/or manufacturer ?

measure the shell, if it's 68mm it will be english thread, if it's 70mm it will be italian.

More pics god damn you!!!

www.lfgss.com/post2527966-240.html

Using this information, is it possible to tell whether this BB is english or italian threads and/or manufacturer ?

You can distinguish BSC from Italian where those are the only choices by the direction you turned the drive side cup to get it out.

new tires for the city bike

my first road bike since more than 15 years

Eingang I know you're my height so when I say I would ride the fuck out of that Furious I mean it.

it's just an all city nature boy :)

doesn't matter what it is, apolloxl is right!