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Course black would look good but red just might be better:)

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I reckon you should play it safe with black, red could look disastrous if it's not the right shade. Matched saddles and bar tape looks better anyway.

Its your bike though, and gold does have a certain appeal.
I think you'd struggle to find the right red.

Mustard cloth could match the decals and tanwalls.

... mmm ... mustard.

Don't get greedy. Black.

mustard, red and black harlequin cloth taped and then sprinkled with glitter.

Black cloth tape isn't really black unless you shellac it or something. It's faded tone matches tyres after a while though.

Mustard foul. Black boring. Burgundy/claret win.

glitter.

but which colour glitter? :0

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Just ordered the spokes and hubs for my new wheels.

Measured spoke lengths and all came within 2mm, should just about get away with one big box of 288mm spokes to do front and rear.

That and a Park Tool spoke tension meter.

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Theo big rep! What did you find that website? The image of the rider and the bike is firkin awesome! Thanks mate.

Funnily enough I am 186cm! And of course I've got the same physique...

No problem! You can look up racer's stats on the official keirin site so I thought I'd see how tall he was, then when I googled for a picture I spotted that one with the same frame, thought it was pretty cool.

Been recently also changing the bartape on my Samson. Was thinking of yellow, blue and now I've got black/white fade. But definatly will be changing the drops to B125s as the B123 are just to steep for me.

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Been recently also changing the bartape on my Samson. Was thinking of yellow, blue and now I've got black/white fade. But definatly will be changing the drops to B125s as the B123 are just to steep for me.

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so nice.

^ +1 rad as fuck dude!

deep drops/fade tape
black rims/puffy tan walls
Concor saddle

... these are a few of my favorite things

deep drops/fade tape
black rims/puffy tan walls
Concor saddle

... these are a few of my favorite things

before you share your thoughts you should start working on your bikes and not only on your daily bar changes or your ghetto rap skills.

Pew! Pew! Shots fired.

^^for your information i just went all origami on a mega pack cardboard box for some deflection in the rain.... lotech all the way

but they have 16 spokes

Oops, shouldn't have put my socks on before trying to count over 10 :-)

Any of you guys got a black brooks spare? Either b17 or swallow? Dark brown might do.... Want to try one on the Hetchins ... Preferably a bit worn but not knackered cheap is good.

I've got a dark brown one spare. I think it's a B17. Can't decide whether it's knackered or not - the bottom edges are definitely splayed out a bit, but it's had the best part of a tin of Proofide rubbed into it so it should be as supple as anything, and I did ride it for all of 4 miles without my legs falling off. Can send a pic if you're interested.

Sounds promising... Possibly a bit too over the hill but a photo would be great!

The saddle is black, now I'm trying to decide between simple black cloth tape on the drops, or dark red, or even gold. Black I can do straight away, but seems a little plain.

Black thin tape