Current bikes

Sugino

75 I'm assuming...

Maybe just a little bit.....

Got my self a new Gazelle, Champion Mondial 53cm

feels nice but it needs some work. ill be changing and upgrading a few things over the next few months and using it as my 'proper' road bike, also changing my other Gazelle a bit with some risers, clean mudguards and a small Wald basket.

That's the bike that i'm thinking of putting a Brooks swift on.

Snap!

Snap? you own one to?

Yes its pink, your eyes aren't deceiving you!

Oh dear!

I may be getting a Mercier Kilo TT from america and i really want to paint it pink, or at least partly pink

Yeah I've got a Champion Mondial too. It's a little later than yours, mid 80s I think; no lug lining and the seat cluster is different.

Mine's SS at the moment - I'm collecting bits to rebuild it with a triple crankset and Deore touring derailers for the ridiculous hills in the Purbecks (which is where I'm cycling this coming summer).

Here was my bike set up for the race. I think I managed to get 13th out of over 64 riders. Was a fun day!

Nice! Good result :)

New seat post, bars and stem i think it's done!

Very nice!

Just wrapped the bars with black tape, looks a lot better... Strong V grips were a bastard to get off!

^^ ive seen this in anti before!

much less so now..

Yeah i like to think I've rescued the frame from the previous owner : p

Looks great Blake :)

Just put together my new Cinelli. Waiting on some nice new wheels for my birthday, and I'm thinking of putting the paselas back on.

Nice, lose the Bullhorns though!

And the brooks can fuck off aswell.

You guys be trippin'

To me it saying ''gimme some swept back bars!''

Ideally I want to keep it stiff, keep it riding nice and fast and only have a touch of the vintage 'gent about town' look. Swept back bars are for mums, and people on the tweed run IMO. I will be sticking some silver drops with brown brooks tape, as soon as I can fashion a shim from a can, and wacking the paselas back on.

It will be a very odd sensation to finally have a bike that requires no work... Once all this is done, my beater will never be looked after so much I imagine!

Why don't you just buy some drops that fit the stem?

Ideally I want to keep it stiff, keep it riding nice and fast and only have a touch of the vintage 'gent about town' look. Swept back bars are for mums, and people on the tweed run IMO. I will be sticking some silver drops with brown brooks tape

I think some classic road drops would look great, maybe Nitto noodle bars, Brooks tape then 2 levers, using 1 as a dummy lever?

Swept back bars can be quite nice actually, as long as you are not to upright, had them for a while on one of my many commuters

I miss that bike.