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disc brake is a bit overkill IMHO.
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Those metal things are common on 70s / 80s basic 'racers'. There's a thing on BikeSnobNYC (a well-known blog, which is quite knowing and funny about things like the 'fixie' craze) which refers to a 'fixed-gear armageddon' (check out the 'PistaDex'), and part of the prophesy is that signs that the End Times are nigh will appear, such as when someone posts a pie-plate 'fixie' on velospot or whatever it's called.
Basically it'd be pointless to do it (put the metal thing on a new fixed-hub wheel), but bikesnob prophesised that somebody, somehwere would do it to make a bike look 'old skool'.
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like old lo-pro frames (a failed concept from the past) that are suddenly sought after, much to the delight of old school racers and timetriallers who now have a ready and willing doe-eyed market itching to pay over the odds on ebay for the junk at the back of their shed.
i bet BSNY experienced a frisson of excitement and repulsion the first time he saw one with risers on, an oxymoron of a bicycle if ever there was one. -
It was YOU that out bid me!! Thought I was going to get a real bargain, love the frame!
So sad :(
What you paid is still a great price IMO
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. -
WTF?? Huh?? etc.......
Oldie to Oldy you gayer :-)
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It was YOU that out bid me!! Thought I was going to get a real bargain, love the frame!
So sad :(
What you paid is still a great price IMO
i hope my collection of components will do it proud. and as another twist to the story. unbeknown to me the person that was selling it was an old friend from my racing days at herne hill in the velo club de londres. so when i collected the frame a fair amount of time was spent reminiscing and asking "do you rememebr ......?" and "whatever happened to .......?" and as a sweetner i got a pair of tied and soldered track wheels really cheap :-) and watched the highlights of yesterdays stage of the giro d'talia.
sorry if i've made you sadder
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Those metal things are common on 70s / 80s basic 'racers'. There's a thing on BikeSnobNYC (a well-known blog, which is quite knowing and funny about things like the 'fixie' craze) which refers to a 'fixed-gear armageddon' (check out the 'PistaDex'), and part of the prophesy is that signs that the End Times are nigh will appear, such as when someone posts a pie-plate 'fixie' on velospot or whatever it's called.
Basically it'd be pointless to do it (put the metal thing on a new fixed-hub wheel), but bikesnob prophesised that somebody, somehwere would do it to make a bike look 'old skool'.
thanks for clearing that up
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Bike i am building for a mate - Genesis Flyer, just been given a gunmetal metalflake by the fine chaps at Armourtex, pictures dont do this paintjob justice.
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Nice colour. I think that's what shootthebreeze has on his Rourke
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Oldie to Oldy you gayer :-)
Gary (Campy) Old(y)man?
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God, he is looking old. Long gone are his 'Becksy' days
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was that in there recently, swore I saw it yesterday after it'd just been done. If it was, it's a bloody lovely finish
Yeah it was done last week but could only pick it up today - came out better than i expected, in that the metalflake is quite subtle, hard to show on camera though
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FYI: sjs reckoned it would fit up to 28ctyres with mudguards on 700s, you might be able to squeeze more in if you played around with muguard arrangement (chopped up so they don't go under fork/bridge?). Otherwise head for 28.
Unless you go for smaller wheels, which might be worth considering if you really want this to be a utility thing.
Keep cranks short, has some overlap on mine with 170mm / 700s.
Have fun.
thanks skully :) got it in armourtex now,, nice to know it's got that big tyre clearance.. becoming less utility tho (mrs.dasmiller doesn't want a rear rack and the forks won't support a front rack..),, so looks like being a basket :) and that can be on or off.. so the bike's nicely evolving.. god knows how it will put itself together in the end :)
thaks for the crank advice.. 165's from BLB look like the best candidates for the budget,, unless i put in an xtra 35 quids into some ambrosio's..
going to put my miche/cxp30s on it, and yea might well take advantage of that fat tyre advice too :)
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