Current Projects chat and miscellany

After a week in Otley I've realised that my collection of London/flat bikes isn't going to cut it. I've also got a significantly smaller space to keep them all so expect numerous bits coming up for sale, at the moment though plan is:
Keep 'Don Brooks' race bike, which I have no intention of racing, but is too damn sexy to sell. If I ever do sell it, the person it was built for 23 years ago wants it shipped to him in New Zealand anyway...
Keep ONE fixed gear bike with drops and levers for bombing it on the rolling hills when I get fit again.
Sell: Beater (Concorde track frame, Sugino 75, Condor wheelset - anyone interested in the whole thing?), 531c CX frame, second road frame, all the parts I'll never use and a kidney and buy a 'proper' road bike.

Just bought a Rossin SLX as well, which I keep forgetting about, hopefully it'll fit and be my day-to-day.

As an aside, there are so many bikeradar level cyclists around here it hurts. I almost preferred the nodders.

Just glanced at the Fucking Nodders thread. What am I saying, I don't miss commuting in London at all.

at all?

Maybe a bit. It's a bit weird going from being one of the faster people on my commute to feeling like a fat turd with jelly legs compared to the chaps and chapettes around here.

Your Swinnerton is lurvly James!
Also Tom you definitely need your own thread. it deserves it...

Enjoying my brooklyn set up like this on my holiday, still haven't bothered to get the bloody levers aligned.

Untitled by 40 skid patches, on Flickr

Brake

Untitled by 40 skid patches, on Flickr

Real cool Indra!
Where you been riding? And whats the fork?

Been a while since I've checked in here, mainly because of a temporary move back to Switzerland, but just thought I'd share the development of my slave project:

i need some ec90s

i need some ec90s

I was about to post the link to an ex-demo pair at about half price at crc, but they must have sold, I can't find it. :(

You probably hear it all the time, but from this picture it looks like there is about 35-40cm of seatpost showing a saddle to bar drop of about 20-25 cm's which is really far to much. I have the same t-rex problem as you do, and on my Cinelli I had the same crazy seatpost setup (only a little less seatpost), it rode fine/good untill I found a frame that fitted better. So I'd really look for a better fitting frame.

As tester said, there's under 30cm showing. I'll go measure later but it's more like 26cm.
I have never ridden a frame that fits me! I have however replicated where the contact points are, I wasn't too happy with having the bars to high so I let them be lower and it's fine for me at the moment.

Seems unlikely, no more than 30cm would be my guess. If you twist your head a bit to make the ground plane level, the drop looks to be within the range seen on well fitted bikes of humans with body proportions within the 95th percentile. No Orang-utans needed.

I should probably go out and take a level pic with my glasses in this time!

Real cool Indra!
Where you been riding? And whats the fork?

Cheers Joss, Tifosi track.

I should probably go out and take a level pic with my glasses in this time!

You actually need glasses to see horizontally?

For some reason when looking through the viewfinder I do.

Must be all them triangle.

Scobled.

just got back from a ride, and a box containing this awaiting my return

for the princely sum of 27 euros delivered , it's a cinelli argento vivo mtb

according to Mombat, one of the very few Italian mtb framesets that can call itself an mtb legitimately , made with Gary Fisher pre the buy out for approx 1 year, curious forks also

the monkey in me wants to go ss or fixed, but the man says go period correct, I shall relish the internal struggle until a decision is reached

You could go SS purely to keep it simple as you payed very little for the frame.

aye, but it would limit it's use/capabilities somewhat methinks

be a sod to respray, paint is "hard touch", has a texture, only seen one before owned by one of the wrenches in a Giant store

New rear mech from "harv4130" fitted to my Peugeot. Running like a dream. New front in the post.

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The Suntour Cyclone despite being quite heavy are great derailleur.

Bike at the back, purpley colour, thinking of going for that now..

Lavender

What is up with those socks.
Ugly, fat legs!?

lavender bike guy needs a bigger frame. Thank god he's not wearing lavender socks too

Looks like lilac to me!