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Nice looking frame. It needs black wheels!
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Just spotted this thread - was the bike built up before I got the frame: http://www.lfgss.com/thread81658.html
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"It's hand built in holland"
Read something about this on the internet sometime. Koga and Batavus are made in the same factory. But the frames were built up in holland and made in Japan orso. There was something with "built in" and "made in".
Anyway nice looking frame.
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"It's hand built in holland"
Read something about this on the internet sometime. Koga and Batavus are made in the same factory. But the frames were built up in holland and made in Japan orso. There was something with "built in" and "made in".
Anyway nice looking frame.
Yeah, your right - japanese parts, build in holland (wiki)
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On the design front, i really like the look of this pista - clean and minimalist.. Im finding it hard to come up with the good colour scheme for a silver frame. From what i can see, contrasting wheel colours seem to work but chrome is somewhere in the middle for all black or all white wheels?
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Jup, chrome with a bright colour is pretty anti. But you can try. Black rims would look cool though.
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I really love that frame. I would build it up like this one;
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Black one does look better.
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Black rims and tan walls looks best!
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I do agree with IDK on the gears. Frame is really nice, but you could sell it and buy a real track frame.
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It's not "wac" by any means to put a fixed drivetrain on a road frame if that's what suits your purposes, which I can understand, but the "track look" is something you shouldn't go for, its likely to look rubbish. IMO a frame like that would look best with some gears, but if you're going fixed, don't expect it to look anything like a track bike. There are plenty of nice conversions out there however, find something you like and orientate your build around that.
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Go for chrome/black and put on some road bars with some nice levers, like sram s500 or s900. Just like superjoe's bridgestone, which is lovely.
buy some black Gipiemme's from this guy:
http://www.tontacycles.com/Really nice chap and his wheels aren't expensive.
Cheers and keep us informed with your progress.
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^^ this man speaks the truth.
Worst thing you can do with a road frame is put track drops and some pissy little cross lever on it imo. Nice drops that fit you properly with hoods you can actually ride on is the way to go for conversions.Agreed track drops aren't practical for everyday use. To be controversial I'm actually torn between bullhorns or 2" risers instead of road drops. I'll be in traffic most of the time and if i need to get aero i definately prefer the bullhorn positioning..
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I've had this frame for a few weeks now and been planning a new build for it. On research I've found out:
It's hand built in holland (possibly Japan as the company did merge with a Japanese bike builder at some point?)
It was one of their top range of sport road bikes at the time (according to their archive brochure from 1990)
I believe the original group set was the shimano sante range.
It's a nice lightweight frame being the only alloy they made that year.
Although its not a track geometry I'm thinking of some sort of track / road hybrid type build. I have a few bits already to get started with this project and collect the rest over time.
I'll post some better photos soon. Any ideas on colour scheme for this silver frame? It does look kinda yellowish in the pic but it's just the indoor lighting and a crappy phone camera.