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Mark are you going to ride it breakless?

Woohoo just bought a donor bike for my Gios! Full 1st gen C-record, delta brakes the lot!

This:

Plus all the bits from this:

Will make me very happy! (Assuming it arrives from Milan ok that is!)

Oooh, is that the Gios with the adjustable vert dropouts?

yep it a gios compact, got a great deal on the gios thanks to coppi

Lovely Joe, enjoy the build :-)

Yum. Be sure to put up pics when it's done.

whats wrong with 24" front wheels im feeling pretty ignorant on the matter atm

imagine touching your feet whilst riding...it will be very low and depending on the state of your back/how high the stem and bars you have on it might be unridable on the street, but it's all up to you. Also they look a bit silly for every day use. Here's a pic of a bike (a very nice one) with a 24" front wheel and even though it is stunning I don't think i'd ever ride it

no photo yet, but i'm done, just picked up the jaguar stem, shots tomoz and i'll be out and about - god help me!!! THAT DURA ACE CRANK UP THERE IS SPROGTASTIC

Mark are you going to ride it breakless?

The front rim is unmachined and it would be a sin to mess it up. So yeah, probably. Even though I'm not a fan.

Btw, how's it going man? Haven't seen you in ages!

more details to follow, i am happy though.

and these are the campagnolo and cinelli bits i have been collecting from here and there in anticipation of a frame like this. it was coincidental that the bar tape was yellow :-) i have a pista chainset also but it has gone missing :-( not lost forever,,,, just missing temporarily. the blue is slightly darker than in the picture. a respray maybe one day but i'm in no hurry to do that.

Many years ago (more than ten) when i lived in forest hill on my way home from school i would sometimes walk along stanstead road and stop in TJQ cycles and look at the pictures on the walls and the handbuilt frames and wheels hanging awaiting collection and marvel at how smart they all looked. tommy quick the owner always had time to say hello and with braizing/welding googles or mask still perched on his forehead would take a break and pass away ten minutes or so telling cycling stories and litte problems he had with builds or things he was going to do to frames. i didnt for a second ever think that i would own one of his frames only because i was young and benotto and colnago and gios frames were more attractive with their colours and transfers and winning riders in the cycling weekly. the shop had a double front as i remember it with large knee to ceiling windows. the frame building was done out the back in his workshop down maybe three of four steps.
the old shop closed down many years ago and became a few things maybe a junk shop and a hairdressers and something else before the entire block was totally redeveloped. the other shops in the block were a news agent and on the very corner there was a petrol station, there was another shop but i cannot for the life of me remember what that was. suprise suprise it's now a new build block of flats. looking at it you would not know that a cycle shop or a shop of any kind was ever there. even though this frame wasnt made specifically for me dimension wise i think and hope its going to be alright bordering on perfect(so i can tick that box) but mostly it feels good having one of his frames and thinking back to being in the shop as a kid and hearing his stories.

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That's a pretty quick looking frame you've gotten your hands on there...

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Woohoo just bought a donor bike for my Gios! Full 1st gen C-record, delta brakes the lot!

Plus all the bits from this:

Will make me very happy! (Assuming it arrives from Milan ok that is!)

don't say you got this from some clueless bastard who doesn't even know how to adjust the saddle...

more details to follow

Yes please, maybe details of the frame! Looks good!

i am happy though.

I bet you are! I remember you telling me about this guy and that shop on the way back from Orpington (collecting the Lauter Vasser bars in january). Really good that you found that frame from him!

Will you be riding it tonight for SE drinks?

Szia

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At last i got my frame back,now i can start the build.

Yes please, maybe details of the frame! Looks good!

I bet you are! I remember you telling me about this guy and that shop on the way back from Orpington (collecting the Lauterwasser bars in january). Really good that you found that frame from him!

Will you be riding it tonight for SE drinks?

Szia

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i might ride it tonight, its not drilled for a front or rear brake so i have to go slow and brakeless untill i get a clamp on. i have no intention of drilling holes or having holes drilled. if i did anything it would be getting the lugs lined. i might be getting the headset changed over this evening courtesy of retro di corsa.

there are not many details to photograph. its a very standard track iron with simple lugs. the fork crown is nice though i just noticed, pics attached. the chain and seat stays are more jumbo marker than pencil thin :-)

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nice TJ, coppithat, quite a few have been popping up lately.

i might ride it tonight, its not drilled for a front or rear brake so i have to go slow and brakeless untill i get a clamp on. i have no intention of drilling holes or having holes drilled. if i did anything it would be getting the lugs lined. i might be getting the headset changed over this evening courtesy of retro di corsa.
there are not many details to photograph. its a very standard track iron with simple lugs. the fork crown is nice though i just noticed, pics attached. the chain and seat stays are more jumbo marker than pencil thin :-)

Shouldn't you wait until you have clamp on brakes? SE london is full of mad drivers and have you not heard Stallion Legs telling about all these zombies after brakeless fixies?
Simple lugs are beautifull!

Szia

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PS - Is it me or do the Jumbo Marker Pen stays wrap arround the seat tube?

PS - Is it me or do the Jumbo Marker Pen stays wrap arround the seat tube?

they start to wrap and then stop. there's about an inch gap between the points. the zombies are only a problem if you are scared of them. i have a alluminium pump to hit them with or my master cuff lock.

/\ /\ nice!

don't say you got this from some clueless bastard who doesn't even know how to adjust the saddle...

unfortunately not, i'll be eating beans on toast for a while

At last i got my frame back,now i can start the build.

Dolan FXE ?

New build finished last night. Frame is a Swobo Sanchez, powdercoated blue metallic, and I rattle-canned the forks. Wasn't too convinced about frames with sloping top tubes until I built this up ;-)

Gave it its first test-ride this morning, it is super-comfortable, the geometry seems pretty good for me (although may swap the stem out soon). Makes a perfect little commuter/runaround, and feels like it will be great for longer rides too. Gotta sort out a few things though, new front wheel possibly, and play around with the chain and rear wheel a bit (too far back in the dropouts at the mo).

Dolan FXE ?

Hi

Sure is won't look like one when it finished though,going to put some nice bits in.