Hinault the Time Travel Touché: A sensible modern fixed bike.

I'm not doing coloured tyres. One has to draw a line somewhere.

Like the line you draw on coloured chains?

Like the line you draw on coloured chains?

For Ed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoEFv1GpPU4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Oh Ed, that is one good looking bike. Don't suppose you found a full bike shot?

Edit: Found it. Fugly.

Pete, maybe this isn't such a good plan.

Currently thinking two of these (neon yellow) as I've gone off yellow cables:

With that bar tape.

Swinging towards long drop forks/brakes, so thinking Columbus Hiver forks (BLB tell me their stock is definitely plain black) which are a fair bit more expensive but lighter and would give me more tyre options.

With TRP R957 (long drop brakes) in grey or black, probably black.

Or how about:

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Elite-Custom-Race-Bottle-Cage-Black-Blue-Team-Sky-colours-/00/s/MTMzNlgxMTgx/$(KGrHqNHJDcE8fTfy3)NBPOQZ!ZDwg~~60_12.JPG

+

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0209/8970/products/supacaz-wrapped-handlebars-neon-pink-blue_large.png?v=1380941217

+

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c138/yorkpete/Pearsons/_1030575_zpsc0dba642.jpg

That would be a lot more tasteful, wouldn't it?

more ... hmmm

Less yellow.

No yellow.

In fact.

How about this.

Wait and buy those after you have build it up and see how it look.

flurro should be restricted to clothing.

Yes Pete. You got it right the second time. Now hurry up and build something!

How about this.

Wait and buy those after you have build it up and see how it look.

That didn't work because I needed to decide on stuff so I could build it up, so I just bought it anyway as you can just send stuff back these days.

flurro should be restricted to clothing.

No. This is wrong!

I haven't actually built anything yet, but I have got nearly all the bits.

Including:

For some reason the tape includes one pink and one green bar end plug (pictured), this is a complete mystery but I will have to use something else.

And yes, that's a BLUE Doric Team. Which is obviously totally legit.

Actually Cazakstan put me on to a man in Taiwan. It is, at worst, an extremely good, solid feeling fake. The only differences I can find from my (definitely real, red) Doric Team on the other Pearson are that 'Italian style and design' is written in the wrong place and the height marks on the seatpost start at a different height.

According to this:
http://forums.cervelo.com/forums/p/6324/68858.aspx

Some Cervelo's come/came with white team posts, and blue was 'custom for a pro team'. What seems odd is if you were going to fake a Doric Team post, why not just make it red?

Do they weigh the same, and is the wall thickness the same?

Weight of my real Doric Team is 171g, fake Doric Team 211g.

But real is 280mm, fake is 350mm. Also long story but I swapped the stainless bolts on my real post for titanium ones from a LTD.

Wall thickness looks the same (from what I remember, I can't be arsed to take the post out of my road bike).

3T's website says 181g for 31.6 x 280 mm.

measured length required on your bike, then cut down seatpost.

I drop a massive 40g from my seatpost by cutting it a lots shorter to something like 200mm.

Hmm, yes. I couldn't be bothered to do that as this bike involved enough sawing and cutting as it was!

I built it up maybe a month ago now. Decided that as it has proper mudguard bolt fittings on the brake bridge and between the rear stays it would be a shame not to use them, but the Portland Design Works Full Metal Fenders aren't drilled, so I got busy with my drill...

Then put little rubber doughnuts on the bolts to cushion between the guards and the frame:

The big plus of this is that I don't need the big ugly bracket over the rear brake.

The grey mudguards go very nicely with the TRP R957 brakes which are really nice and have plenty or power.

The rear brake bridge is pretty thin so I had to cut down the bolt which came with the brakes too. At this point I thought my metalwork lesson was over but my GCSE metalwork skills had to come to the fore again as the M5 mudguard bolts wouldn't fit in the Columbus Hiver fork eyelets, and M4 bolts were far too loose and wouldn't engage with the threads.

So I ended up tapping the eyelets out to M5 with an M5 bolt, gently but firmly screwing the bolt in a few turns with a bit of oil, then backing off a turn, then repeating until they'd gone all the way through.

This was a bit nerve wracking with a set of forks that cost getting on for two hundred quid and I'm not especially impressed I had to do it, but it all ended well.

It's first real trip was down to the Isle of Wight (with camping kit) then the ride around the Island the next day, so I put a Tourtec Ultralite rack on to make it a fixed tourer. This hasn't actually come off yet as I quite like having a fixed do it all bike.

Really like how it rides - I was worried about harshness but to be honest it's probably more comfortable than my steel frame. And that's with 25mm Maxxis Refuse - there's space for 28s if I want them. I love having the same position as my road bike and the comfort of the Ergonovas, and it's pretty light too.

The hilarious Supercaz bar tape is actually awesome. I've got Lizard Skin DSP 2.5mm on the road bike and it's way more comfy than that, it's actually great bar tape it turns out!

Looks spot on. Bar tape and the little blue notes are a nice touch.

Are they the narrower version of the pdw guards on there? So, you'd reckon they'd be effective (and fit) with 28's? That's handy to know, been looking into those since Ed mentioned them...and to hear there's an easy way to bypass that odd over caliper bracket has pretty much sold me. Was just wondering if I could get away with the narrower ones with 27c's.

Lovely fox, are they novatec hubs ?

Might go for the same wheelset and fenders for Bob once I have some dollah

Ta. Even better than that, Mack low flange superlights with ceramic hubs. They spin forever :)

Picked them up from tomsvoboda as compete wheels with the archetypes, they were on his cursed Roberts build.

It was convenient as they were exactly what I wanted!

Looks spot on. Bar tape and the little blue notes are a nice touch.

Are they the narrower version of the pdw guards on there? So, you'd reckon they'd be effective (and fit) with 28's? That's handy to know, been looking into those since Ed mentioned them...and to hear there's an easy way to bypass that odd over caliper bracket has pretty much sold me. Was just wondering if I could get away with the narrower ones with 27c's.

Thanks. The stripe on my eBay knock off seatpost is a little darker blue than ideal but I think I just need to live with that ;)

Yes, the narrow versions (which I think are 30mm, from memory?). They'd definitely fit and I think they'd be effective as they'd not go further than the edge unless they were very big 28s, I think...

Rogan whatever hubs you get I'd recommend getting wider rims, they really are a cycling invention which actually makes a difference (but I think you know that as you have them already on your Talbot?).

And yes, they are nice mudguards. Not cheap, but very solid and they look nice too.

Yes absolutely, I need a wet weather commuter for later in the year so hopefully I'll have the budget to replace the wheels and finally get some solid mudguards for Bob

Just delightful - good job.

Fox - I have just been reading your ss frames with bottle bosses thread and found my way here. Looks like an excellent solution. Bravo.

It has certainly given me food for thought, although the pearson website photos of the current range leave a lot to be desired. Take your photos outside in good light, not on your crappy cameraphone in a dingy shop! shakes fist