Mystery Track Lopro Strip & Rebuild

Post #43 dude. Same page!

@OldSkoolRacer & @6pt

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Rims also turned up today!

Bad news on the paint front via radio @6pt. Orange went on fine, pink started flaking once out the oven. Starting from scratch I believe but with better pink. Meh...

This is gonna look good. Shame about the paint but good things come to those who wait

Thanks! And also very true - I'm in no particular rush to build it up as i want it to stay nice and only come out in the sunshine!

I also still have a lot of parts to buy and it was looking a bit £££ in the run up to Xmas in any case. Watch this space!

Dollar dollar billz!

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So... the frame is finished! Will be picking up at the weekend all being well. Spokes ordered for the wheels too but apart from that no other progress :-(

Got it yet? :)
Who's building your wheels?

Picked it up this morning;

I'll be building my wheels, as always :-)

DANNNNGG BOIII!!!! Looks great @OldSkoolRacer, this going to be your prommuter or summer cruising?

Zingin. This gonna be good

Awesome.
Personally, I would have requested fades on the forks as well, but is going to be ace anyway.

Looks great.
What's that by the fire, some feather fetish device?

Also doubles up as a cat toy ;-)

Thanks all! I'm fairly happy with it - @6pt has some home brew Poyner decals to drop by later and my Sapim race spokes should be on my desk at work Monday, things are slowly starting to come together...

Fair weather only posing bike!

that is fine! im actually a fan of the non fade forks, balances with the rear triangle nicely, props!

This paint scheme should be every cyclists response to "why you no wear fluro nodder jacket? "

It is a lot brighter and in your face than I was expecting, probably won't even need lights at night...

If I can find my home made headset press I might have a crack at installing the cups tomorrow, other than that I can build the wheels up thru the week and that's about it for now :-/

Brighter than you were expecting?!' Fluro pink orange fade' was never going to be subtle...
Looks alright :) I've still got your seat clamp binder bolt too, will add to the pile.

Excellent - ta! Was just doing a bit of trial fitting with the hubs as there was a slight issue even with the old paint job. Basically the rear dropouts are ever so slightly too narrow (due to thickness of paint) and the rear hub tended to jam a bit rather than slide when tensioning the chain. I was hoping blasting and a fresh coat of paint would solve the issue but the paint seems to have gone on quite thick so looks like I need to scrape/file the lower side of each dropout down a bit, le sigh.

Just pull apart the drops when you position it? You'll still be able to walk the hub it into tension if they don't slide freely. No scraping!

Sorry maybe I explained it wrong - they're bang on 120mm spaced but the hub axle is slightly too tight in the dropout slot...