Current Projects chat and miscellany

You might be better off asking macvillain to see if they can order in a 24h Paul hub as they stock them anyway and they have the best prices I found in the UK.

I actually ordered mine from Jenson USA and price matched against a company called Niagara cycles who don't ship to the UK.

Hardshell on the front, standard gator on the back?

Looks fantastic anyway

Yes, very observant of you! Yes, just wanted a 28 on the front and 25 on the back and that's all I had lying around

If tenners doesn't need them I'll take them, have a beater to build up

Tenners is going to come pick them up, I'll let you know if that doesn't happen though.

That brooklyn looks awesome! why the odd tyre sizes though? even a Rando' on the rear and a 28c front bugged me a bit as i knew the rando was more of a 26c in actual size.

Tenners is going to come pick them up, I'll let you know if that doesn't happen though.

Cheers dammit

man I wish my suntour was that well kept

My conversion LeJeune is almost ready...

^Lovely

that fade is super!

now painted

[QUOTE=LeCre;3437183]My conversion LeJeune is almost ready...

perfect!

My conversion LeJeune is almost ready...

Looks amazing, paintjob especially.

In what way is it a conversion? Did you change the dropouts? If so, bring on the puppy genocide.

Looks like plenty of BB drop so probably had the dropouts changed

Yeah, I changed the dropouts. When I bought the frame, it was in very bad condition. Someone had used an angle grinder a lot, and the front fork was cracked...
I was thinking about raising the BB, but decided not to do that. It's a conversion anyway...
The paint job was sort of practicing in painting fades. I'm happy with the result.

Paint looks terrific

Yeah, I changed the dropouts. When I bought the frame, it was in very bad condition. Someone had used an angle grinder a lot, and the front fork was cracked...
I was thinking about raising the BB, but decided not to do that. It's a conversion anyway...
The paint job was sort of practicing in painting fades. I'm happy with the result.

It's the best conversion I've seen, no doubt.

It's the best conversion I've seen, no doubt.

this has my vote, and isn't murder.

Not sure about that really.

B0N0R's is a close second

that's also butchered though... these should be 2 different categories :D

'Conversions' and 'rescue bikes'. The former are crying out for gears, the latter have been given new leases of life!

Don't necessarily agree that all conversions are "crying out for gears" .
When I was a kid loads of people used to convert to fixed for the winter - as long as you don't do anything irreversible with the angle grinder it's all good.
Here's another one for the scrap book.

This article? http://sheldonbrown.com/saddles.html#angle
He says close to level here, with some men preferring the nose slightly angled up. "Slightly" will be up to the individual.
I say it is standard based on most Brooks saddles that I've observed and owned, and what most promoters of Brooks saddles suggest. The benefit? Comfort, obviously.

So, as you say, pretty close to horizontal... That Bob Jackson posted few pages back looks like the saddle is like a plane taking off... So it's just not right to justify this by using the brooks design as an excuse, or the "pretty close to horizontal rule"... I was looking at the Alex Singer book this WE again, these bikes have leather saddles, rarely brooks I must admit. Some are pointing up a little, but only a very little, and these bikes had a very trad geometry, with only a few centimeters of saddle post showingt, and where the saddle is not that much higher than the handle bars compared to that bob jackson... Just imagine trying to go on the drops with that setting, I don't see the benefit of comfort, sorry? People / bikes on here are being severely criticized for much minor problems, thrown in anti porn, newbies are being told off, etc... So when someone like Ed, who knows his shit, is a true enthousiast, brings (I find) interesting info / picture references into the threads, but also don't hesitate to often give his opinions, shows a saddle angle like it should be a horror movie, I don't want to hear about brooks design and the "close to horizontal" rule, because it's not relevant.
I made nightmares about that saddle...

"Close to horizontal"

Not close to horizontal anymore