Current Projects chat and miscellany

if you really wanna be me MR eco take the empty cartridges down your local scrap metal dealer. They're worth about 2p each.

Wouldn't mind a black one, but there sold out

he's restocking soon

Looks good, but still inconspicuous enough to not worry about it.

I know you said ignore the 'guards, but just to state the obvious wont they be ok once you put the bracket section on the outside as opposed to underneath? Or are they meant to go underneath?

Thanks!
If you are referring to the bracket for the rear mudgard, that attaches to the brake bridge, it's just clip sliding onto the mudgard, so it doesn't matter if you put it to the front or the rear... but maybe that's not what you meant...?

Cheers, will keep an eye out

he's restocking soon

I don't know- Topeak Shuttle Levers FTW.

Also on the fixed side of things/ more of an epic current project:

Be finished by October hopefully.
Maybe sooner if I get my act together.
coldharbour brazed on some canti's onto the old GH.
Things going onto it- Some form of black on black sort of deep wheelset.
Probably SRAM force chainset with Goldtec chainring.
Bulls, and TT bars, and a set of risers with a basket for funsies.
Purple bartape.

@ the end of the day I should have:
Road, CX, Tourer, Fixed.
That should be plenty, though maybe a mountain bike?

You have 3 geekhouses??

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Maybe someone should start a campaign against laughing gas. I'm pretty sure festival goers this summer have contributed x1,000 more canisters over the summer than all the MAMILs will this year. .

Actually there is a shortage of laughing gas in the world due to the coolant of supercomputer, especially the Hadron Collider.

Bumblebee work!

1997 Gitane Mach 330 GTX 58cm

Turned this :
http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g361/lasseaux/IMG-20130727-WA0004_zps45168382.jpg

Into this:
http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g361/lasseaux/20130821_124005_zpsfdd7d4b7.jpg

It rides very nicely.

Some of you might remember the track version I sold a while back (1994 Gitane Track 60cm lo-pro):
http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/g361/lasseaux/Useful%20Bike%20Stuff/Bikes%20and%20Parts%20for%20Sale/20130508_191341_zpsf1606fcd.jpg

so now you wish you didn't sell it I suppose?
looks good!

I ride 56cm frames so no hard feelings on either bikes!

Next in line to be fixed up is this awesome Bernard Carre - loads of first generation Dura-Ace components. Ideas welcome!

Keep that bartape whatever you do.

Keep that bartape whatever you do.

#madeightiestape

Not sure who owned it before but the bar tape is ace and so it the pink cable housing.

Does anyone know where I can buy rubber hoods for old school Shimano 600 brake levers? The ones pictured

ha! brakes a la francaise!

Think I've just found my next project.
Great looking frame at a decent price...
https://www.bricklanebikesshop.co.uk/products/masi-3v-uncomplete-bike

steal

rep

stolen

ftfy

Next in line to be fixed up is this awesome Bernard Carre - loads of first generation Dura-Ace components.

So good.

Just started building this up. waiting on 75's and a saddle...

ftfy

didnt have to, it was good already and meant the same

Looks sick kerob, probably my favorite of your bikes so far, already!

You have 3 geekhouses??

Who doesn't?

1 bought way back in the day when he was just starting out. It got stolen, then recovered, but the insurance money paid for a 2nd, which I sold, along with the first.
Then I bought a second hand team CX (as above) for a ridiculously good price.
Then I missed the 1st one so I bought it back, and the third one I had been saving up for for the past year and a half or so.

Tl:dr: I like Geekhouses (and Cannondales), and probably spent a bit more than I would have liked, but have a perfect set of bikes out of it.

Badass Rob!

So I was saying...

As usual veLLo- your bike is an understated beauty.
Lovely work.

Just started building this up. waiting on 75's and a saddle...

seat looks to high, have you considered a bike fit?

didnt have to, it was good already and meant the same