Rory O'Brien - Steel is Real. Pt.2

I found an extremely nice electrical blue Rory O'brien track frame on eBay a few days ago in the most perfect of measurements: - 61cm seat-tube and a 54cm top tube.

According to the sales thread,

the frame has been chrome plated with the electric blue finish applied
on top of the chrome

The ultimate T-Rex frame, this would allow me to have a respectable amount of seat-post showing while having a medium sized stem with bulls. As for certain parts, I have no idea. Overall I'm thinking of a mixture between black and silver parts, no deep rims. I'm in no rush to complete this anyway, I'm sure i'll be able to live a couple weeks/months without fixehh skiddin.

Stem - Silver, 100mm-120mm.
Seatpost - Silver
Crankset - Dunno
Wheels - Shallow, dunno
Bars - Risers(?), Bulls(?), Black Grips/Tape

Pic of teh frame:

Any suggestions/ideas/comments are very much welcome.

Porn potential here.

Black lo profile rims laced to some shiny silver dia compe low flange hubs.

Silver cinelli 1a to mavic bullhorns wrapped in some fizik soft touch.

Sugino 75 with a nice chainring.

= Winning

Yeah! That would be lovely, if I had the money, lol.

I'll just have to get a budget version of that. :)

classy frame - love the typeface.

subscribed - look forward to seeing the build.

Looking forward to your 'new' handlebar setup. Take Rory outside if its sunny I want moar photos.

Haha, soon soon.

Tbh, I just need a crankset then I'm all set (for now).

Got the chain today, bb arriving tomorrow.

Some mock-up pics (cockpit is being borrowed from Hugo):

Nice frame, but Is the tt length the same as the Butler? Why from 150mm stem to a 70mm?

EDIT: just saw the cockpit is borrowed, can't wait to see a proper stem+shallow drops on it :)

Haha, yeah the cockpit is just until I'm able to get my own.

I think I'll go for risers. Just waiting on a crankset atm tbh, still looking for one. :(

Silver Seatpost should be here by next week, and hopefully a proper cockpit.

Rory finshed!! Might/Will be selling soon though :'(

Real nice, bizarre dimensions

looks nice but i think you should stop building bikes to sell.. keep this, its great!

The toe overlap prevents me from making turns without hitting the front wheel with my pedals. :(

I recommend this then..

Pinks not really my colour ;)

Looks great man, please don't sell this one just because of the overlap, I'm sure you'll get used to it.

Overlap is just a fact of life, learn to live with it

^this. of course its probably a bit more on a short frame like that. could try to source another fork with more rake making it a bit more foregiving?

I've heard that Uoeno isn't that good in searching 1" forks

^ This, Jan knows me too well. :(

You will get used to the toe overlap trust. I get it with the FR Russell and got used to it after a stack and a decent ride. What he said up there, evolve and learn to live with it.

Yeah .. tbh thought about it and decided that will be selling frame+forks to the first guy that contacted me.

@Uoeno You should try clipless pedals, they might help you a little (your cages look big and chunky)... I thought toe overlap on track bikes is a normal thing no?

Yeah toe overlap is normal on track bikes, claud even had some but the geo and fork rake makes it much more difficult on this one.