Monark Crescent Track - The Big Swede

Jack. You're 5'10". Now fuck off.

Can't a man dream! I'm whittling the stilts now!

If you like this ^ I can give you the details of a guy who does excellent airbrush work. He's a classic car sprayer but he's keen to do more bikes after doing my frame recently

Ah cheers, looks good, do you mind me asking how much?

It seems zeus used a 26.8 seat tube so if it turns up with that then we'll know

dibs

too big for you tom

Whatever it turns out to be, it needs that Dave Marsh paintjob.

Or to be Álvarez mk.II.

a swedish track bike. seen it all now

Why weren't you swedish chaps building track bikes? everyone else seemed to have been

not one single velodrome for the past 30 years or so that I know of. Not sure if there ever was. There was a new one built a few years back however

That seems odd to me, more since you have the raw material that have built loads of other tracks.

I've been thinking about Decals, if I can't find out who made it I might get some José Álvarez ones made up to match my road bike.

Seeing as it's got Spanish enz, whyever not.

actually José Álvarez was french

Not having that

Apparently they used to own Cyfac

Been thinking about it, I was going to get a Soma rack, but its £100, so I think the Minoura Gamoh Porteur rack for £50 instead:

As you can see its black, minor issue as I would prefer silver but I have located a company who will give it a proper wet spray clear coat. They also say that they can match any paint job I like, so I could get it to match Jose, pearl white or that roberts esque two tone on that dave marsh.

If you like this ^ I can give you the details of a guy who does excellent airbrush work. He's a classic car sprayer but he's keen to do more bikes after doing my frame recently

I had a plan to do that to romet, can you give me some info on pm please mate?

Lovely looking frame dude.

Makes me want to shout Mornington Crescent! Showing my age.

Apparently I've had a bill from customs, hopefully that means I'll be getting it some time this week!

Apparently I've had a bill from customs, hopefully that means I'll be installing spatr barz some time this week!

can't wait

Looks good! Seems like the top tube is quite short in proportion to the seat tube in that first picture but it might just be the camera. Spent ages looking for a track frame with those proportions, gave up, and ended up with a road setup instead (57c-c toptube with a 62c-t seattube). So just in case you want to part with it later, dibs ;).

Spent ages looking for a track frame with those proportions, gave up, and ended up with a road setup instead.

exactly why I snapped this up, frames in these kind of sizes so rarely come up

What is the TT measurement pretty sure it's not been mentioned?

the listing stated them as

63CM CENTER TO TOP

62CM CENTER TO CENTER

60CM TOP TUBE

34" STAND OVER HEIGHT

I will measure them again when i get it though

'ello 'ello whats all this then...

even though i doubt its a crescent, i am very much looking forward to seeing this built up

Another swede here. As far as I know, Crescent and Monark are two separate brands. According to http://www.monark.se/ they have the same owner though, including DBS, which explains the other frame upthread.

Never seen a swedish track bike before either, so if it's a re-badged Zeus that kinda makes sense