Current Projects chat and miscellany

more pictures? pllzzz

This was sent to me by the seller:

And these are awful pictures I have just taken. Saddle angle sorted and new stem/bars/levers fitted:

Raw steel + damp atmosphere + splashes from watering the greenhouse =

The ghost of decals past:

That's great! Looks like fun geo too, and bottle cage bosses :)!

I'm not sure any part of it has seen grease, and the seatpost isn't responding to my gentle persuasion. I'm going to give it a go tomorrow to see whether 85kg and a few speedbumps might help it come unstuck, otherwise I've come across problem #1.

The fit is perfect, it will be a great commuter bike when it's built up. Not sure what to go for in terms of paint & decals. Tempted to match it to my road bike, seeing as they're both Donohue-built 853 frames, but you can see from the bits that weren't sanded off that it used to be red, and I'd quite like to get some decals reproduced.

are you selling the bars that came on it?

Yep

dibs?

That's great! Looks like fun geo too, and bottle cage bosses :)!

It's a strange one, the track ends are original, but it's also got mudguard eyelets and just enough clearance for skinny mudguards and 23mm tyres, and is drilled front and rear. Possibly a custom road fixed.

Assuming it goes well, I think it will be my commuter. It will get the black Miche Advanced cranks which are on my Pompetamine, and possibly the inline seatpost as well, assuming I can get this post out, and if the slack geo of the Pompetamine will work with the layback post as well. I think I will run 49x18 on it, when robadob gives me back my 49t chainring, or possibly 52x19.

looks great tom, ild be inclined keeping it raw; work the rustspots with scotchbrite and get the linseed oil out.

i really would love a raw track, the patina (as on my gazelle tourer) really adds character..
well jelly

Maybe.

Or RAL 1016:

archetypes on hopes are coming my way too

I put dibs on some archetypes on Mack hubs last week and then after a brief PM conversation with the seller regarding postage costs I havent heard anything for nearly a week.

:(

#sad

Mk. I of my ghettofabulous bike storage solution. Is this going to kill me in the face while I sleep? Mk. II will have a large carabiner for QR purposes.

If you push your bar-end shifter down a bit, it might not kill you.

I'd prefer to just die straight off than have my eye spooned out by a descending lo-pro though.

Could you not just turn it 90 degree to fit inside the wardrobe?

I think that the saddle hits the partition, that's the problem. I'll give it a proper go though.

Wardrobes are for clothes, not bikes.

Bikes are for cupboards or hallways.

Yeah, but it's an enormous wardrobe that I'm not using half of. Food for thought.

Wardrobes are for clothes, not bikes.

Bikes are for cupboards or hallways.

Just how huge your cupboards is to fit a bicycle? I can barely find room between the five spice and the john west tuna.

1) Add another rope to your curtain rail

2) Proudly suspend lo pro above bed

Neatish with two?

Rope and a massive knife on the bed. Hmmm.

That's normal, right?

both repped

I like to pretend that you have to take off the crankset in order to fit it in the wardrobe.

That's nice