Kuwahara Cheetah beater (neon splatter)

Great job!! Love it!!

Had an excellent time pootling around Shoreditch and Central and then took the scenic route to the folks' place. The 2:1 ratio skips as I thought it might, so I'll just have to suck it up and buy a SS chain and half link, but otherwise 9/10 would pootle again

Decided not to take a train, strapped my ~6kg bag or so to the rack and wrassled this monster over 9km of Sussex's mighty hills today. Good workout, and it actually handled admirably.

One thing I noticed however is that loaded up the steering is so heavy that the stem actually flexes left and right; I can see and feel the bars turning in relation to the fork and rack. I appreciate a 140mm+ quill stem is never going to be super stiff, but I think I'll be finding one that's a bit more solid... hopefully that doesn't mean paying big bucks for an ATAC :s Might take a punt on the one I posted upthread

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After drilling the crown out to accept a 6mm bolt and some time rooting through drawers and boxes in my Dad's garage, we managed to cobble this together. The bit on the fork is a threaded track rod end and the downtube collar is from a reflector. Spring was 67p. Works a lot better than the Hebie equivalent by all accounts, I'm so chuffed I even made a .gif

Nice bike. Top bodging. Lovely gif too.

Thanks!

Had forgotten about this thread. Bike's been through a fair few revisions since. The steering stabiliser did its job admirably, though the bolt would bend a bit.

I did eventually fit the u-brake and a picnic basket. Also pictured: boat-anchor chrome-plated steel bars. Not pictured: preposterously short high-rise stem with bean-can quill shim.

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Eventually I got tired of the heavy steering and floppy front end, sold the rack and fitted some tasty retro Specialized forks, along with the raddest Kalloy stem I've ever seen, and chucked it around the woods for a bit

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Then I got all sensible with Gilles Berthoud mudguards and a rack.

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Most recently I moved some nicer cranks over and found a less-rad but still-mad stem to refit cantis to cure the mudguard rub and stick the comfy bars back on.

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This is likely how it will stay for the foreseeable future barring possible bar swaps, maybe new levers, and probably my Wald basket come winter. And maybe lighter tyres. And maybe a SRAM Automatix hub.

Still love it. Clocked over a thousand km on it commuting and delivery riding

Also there was that time I cycled it over the South Downs, with rack in situ and only one brake.

Strava

Delicious beers

View from Chanctonbury Ring

Trail

Bonus piggus

You still got this? @TomvanHalen? Anymore adventures?

No, I decided I wanted to get a bike that better fulfilled the intended purpose of this one (beater/pissing about off road/lend to friends to come mountain biking with me) and jumped on a mid-nineties Stumpjumper.

The good news is it's very happy in its new home with a friend of mine who needed a commuter so we still see each other regularly :)

she looks chuffed! great photo!:) rad biek anyway

I need to get my shit together and cobble together my Gary F.

Stuck seatpost is stuck on it though :(

After doing a little research on the internet one evening, low and behold I stumbled upon this thread. For anyone still wanting updates (especially TvH), I've got a little surprise for you.

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Ah nice! What happened to the weirdo cam stem?

I still have it in my parts box I needed a stem with a face plate to fit the new handlebars so sacrifices had to be made. Let me know if you want that stem I'd be happy to post it to you.

Here's a photo when I first saw her. I must admit I laughed a bit when I found out it had already had a seized post cut out of it. I'm 5,6 so that that tall ass post needed to move down a tad but was again stuck like glue. I ended up melting it out with caustic soda worked a treat!

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Aha nah, keep it as a momento! Bad luck on the post, that's super weird. Glad someone is out there enjoying the best paint job in the world

I still have another of those Ritchey tyres in the loft if you wear out one

It's looking great. It's mad how raked out these are. Head and seat angle.