Les the Lo Pro

I swear it's too small for Loic.

Le muchos sigh.

^^we chucked some bits on and he thinks it's ok, and besides who could resist that sexy pink

Bai ... I loves you...

Damn...

Loic has saddle very forward, and apparently he is a bit of a t-rex.
I thought it would be too small, but if he says it works, hey - it works.

Pretty sure its a 60 or 62 seat tube, based in his other bikes am sure it will be fine....

Effective TT?

Effective TT?

1. 
   st doesnt count as much on lo pros..
   

What does count?

seattube*

st doesnt count as much on lo pros..

unless of course the st is longer than your normal bb - saddle rail distance

I swear it's too small for Loic.

MMh, you are the second person to say that... we'll see...

If it's wrong, it will just go to the next forum member, simple!

L

Whatever you do with it, please post it in this thread and keep it going!

Who's got him now?

erm... veLLo?

veLLo, please treat ol' Les to the track ends he has earned. I still miss the bugger.

little bird told me les is getting a mech hanger back on

veLLo, please treat ol' Les to the track ends he has earned. I still miss the bugger.

little bird told me les is getting a mech hanger back on

~~"Track ends" / dropouts originally had a gear hanger that was chopped (as everybody knows here...). Something like this, kind of:

http://vintagebikecave.com/wp-content/uploads/DSCF2053.jpg

...except that they were much shorter in terms of adjustment possibilities, as it was often the case on TT bikes (the ones I've seen at least)~~

/\ /\ /\ irrelevant comment from me above... OP shows this perfectly sorry...

I am having the gear hanger re-brased, onto the original ends/dropouts, which will be unchanged.

Because the dropouts/ends are not replaced (which is good as the tubes don't get heated again), and because I have insisted that frame builder (Vaz's brother) wraps the frame in wet clothes during the brazing, the damage to the pink powercoated paint (which I intend to keep) should be minimum. Maybe a bit of touch-up will be necessary, but nothing major I hope...

This way the bike can be used with TT or fixed wheels, as originally intended.

I do not have a track wheelset I can use on this, so I will for now use a road wheelset I have (with a TT 5 speed block). Crankset with only one chainring (50 or 52T), single lever downtube shifter, centre pull mafac-like brake (the frame has braze on for centre pull, hence the choice...)

I'll see how it looks / rides, and take it from there...

Thinking of custom transfers too... maybe...

Will everybody here be upset if I don't make this fixed?

I'm upset to read that puppies were killed. Have some rep for restoring it.

This will be awesome.

I made a design for decal as well at some point, but I never got them made up.

Will everybody here be upset if I don't make this fixed?

I'm glad you're going to un-puppy-kill it, but also glad you're keeping the pink .

I picked up the frame from Mario on sat, hanger is back... once cleaned / polished, you don't see much of the damage once the wheel and rear mech is on so this is still a flashy pink frame, not a beater style paintwork...

I started building the bike yesterday afternoon. The BB gave me a bit of trouble on the non drive side. I could not use any of my old cup style BBs because none of the axles I had in my spares were the right lenght, so I had to do with a recent shimano sealed one, which is a bit too long but fits OK, I'll build the bike like that, ride it a bit, and get it changed in a bike shop for one of the perfect lenght one, I'll ask them to re-taper the threads on this occasion.

I have a dilema with regards to the brakes. I thought I would use centre pull vintage brakes (mafac style), which would have beed perfect as I have a nice set of them, and the frame has a dedicated bridge for this at the back. But, these centre pull brakes (these ones in particular, but most centre pulls I came accross - mafac, weinman, shimano), have quite a long reach. They could work at the back with the pads set that the higer position, but the clearance is way too narrow at the front, I need normal calipers... Also, the fork steerer is a tat too short and there is no space to fit the centre pull cable stop...
I would hate to have a different style of brakes front and back, so I'll go for calipers. So that bridge is now redundant. As pointed out by Theo, and I agree with him, that bridge was a later addition to the frame. It's quite obvious as the quality of the brazing it inferior to the rest of the frame. Also, I'd never seen such a big bridge for centre pull cable stop, they are usually much smaller... I am quite tempted to remove that bridge because it only served a vey specific purpose at some point, but unless I miss something, it does not really make sense... but I'd like to hear what people here think... Opinions please?

Can't wait to ride that bike!

L