Nord-France : Project Beater

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Links updated. Grand total so far = £35.

i know a guy who was selling 700c wheels with freewheel sprocket for 25 quid, can give you his mob if you interested?
if he still got them try to make him drop to 20, that was a while ago:)

Cheers for the heads up but a mate at work is giving me some old mavic rims on omega hubs, just needs a rear hub and relacing. I think the only thing im currently missing is a rear brake but i need to stick a wheel in there and see what drop i need.

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Love cheap and cheerful builds.

Personally I'd go for risers on a beater.

Just that little bit easier when you're drunk.

OK cranks are here;

Grand total of £7 off ebay. They don't even have a proper chainring/bolt arrangement, it's all one piece which i find amusing. I can feel the flex now! Branded Silstar and 48 teeth of pure beater power!

Running total of project = £32.

be careful if you plan to use those for skidding

Yeah i know mate, i'm only running singlespeed on this for now so shouldn't be any issues. If i ever convert it to fixed (which is highly likely when the novelty of coasting wears thin) i'll stick some cheapo lasco's on there or something.

Update;

• Front wheel acquired thanks to mate at work. I really like it, retro chiq to the max - Mavic MA2 on a n Ofmega hub. Rear to follow. Tyre and tube installed from the cupboard.
  
• Rear hub ordered from Planet X (my mate says the matching rear hub is not usable since his dad nicked the axle and freewheel from it) - £15 for a rear track hub, yes please!
  
• Ordered a £5 18T freewheel from eBay.
  
  

Total so far = £60.

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Liked the risers more.

Yeah so did I!

I'll see when i get it together and might get a cheapo pair of BMX levers on there. Like i said the main reason to stick the risers on there was so i could use the bar tape and levers and clear them out of the cupboard!

I didn't.

Should've figure 8 wrapped. It'd look neater without hoods.

^Hmmmm, yeah although part of the "spec" with this bike is to make it unattractive. I think those levers just scream "old" and "shit". Bear in mind the toptube and seattube will be getting wrapped with old inner tubes. It needs to survive a night locked up in the middle of Shoreditch ;-)

Update once again, nearly there...

Hub arrived today so unlaced the rear mavic ma2 from the knackered hub and relaced with 32 spokes of the right length i had kicking about that were spare from nan old wheel i reused the hub off. 4 spokes short of the full 36 so a quick ebay and 2 quid later and 8 are in the post!

Also managed to find a shimano r450 rear brake in the flat with exactly the right drop, its amazing the stuff you accumulate :-s

Just waiting for my freewheel to arrive and need to hook up the brakes abd we should be good to go.

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Adjust seat and bar angle ;)

Nope, its comfy!

Bars adjustment is just for looks, so you can keep it like this.

But you have to adjust the seat, you will notice it once you rode more than 3 miles.

I rode 12 miles today on it im hardcore. Jog on sunshine.

lulz.

Nice job.

saddle angle looks fine to me!

nice

i know it's a beater but...

locking fail and front wheel is on backwards.

Locking fail being the crap lock? Yeah i know it's only to lock the wheels to the frame, the fagh should keep the frame in one place.

Wheel is on backwards? It's symmetrical, you mean the skewer?

just teasing but yes your correct on both.