TimothyTyndale

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• SOLD Columbus 1" Non-Intergrated Minimal Fork

  in Components and clothing • 4 years, 3 months

  

  I’ve actually just now bought these forks but 1 1/8 from eBay.

• SOLD Columbus 1" Non-Intergrated Minimal Fork

  in Components and clothing • 4 years, 3 months

  

  Yeah, tell me about it... It does mean though that I have to buy some nice shiny new ones :)

• SOLD Columbus 1" Non-Intergrated Minimal Fork

  in Components and clothing • 4 years, 3 months

  

  Sorry...getting ahead of myself and over excited. My forks are 1 1/8... not sure If these will work for me sadly!

• SOLD Columbus 1" Non-Intergrated Minimal Fork

  in Components and clothing • 4 years, 3 months

  

  Interested! I didn't know my forks were carbon and neither did the powder coating people, and they shot blasted a massive hole in them trying to get down to the metal.... Need to measure my old ones to see about the length.

  How long is the steering tube on a brand new set of forks compared to this?

• East london cruiser to track racer supremo

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• East london cruiser to track racer supremo

  in Current Projects • 4 years, 3 months

  

  Mock UP! I've taken the frame to be powder coated. I chose RAL 3015 Hellrosa in their "Matt"- which is more like a satin finish. Looking forward to getting it back. In the mean time, I've mocked up the bike with the graphics.

  I had some phrases translated into Japanese by a translator- I asked him to translate not literally, but to come up with reasonable phrases that make sense in Japanese:

  この自転車を盗むな！
  Do not steal this bike!
  僕の自転車です
  This is my bike.

  For ‘fast and loose’ I think maybe
  なんとかなる
  Means basically ‘it’ll work out somehow’

  “Life is good”
  I think something like
  生きるのは素晴らしいね
  Alternatively another angle could be
  花鳥風月
  Which are literally characters to ‘flower, bird, wind, moon’ and refers to the beauty of everything in nature

  Or just
  人生良好 which is “life good” but is a bit vague. I’ve found it in hanging calligraphy wall scrolls though so maybe people would get it

  So I've chosen a few of these for mine.

• East london cruiser to track racer supremo

  in Current Projects • 4 years, 3 months

  

  When it’s in street formation- I’ll put the original wheels back on and attach the brake and just keep these pedals, but in track formation, I’ll use SPD-SLs like I have on my road bike.

  I’m going to get the powder coating people to shot-blast the old wheels to make them look less scrappy and inconsistent. And the seat post for good measure.

• East london cruiser to track racer supremo

  in Current Projects • 4 years, 3 months

  

  All the parts I ordered have arrived now and I've put them in place...

  I got the gearing as suggested 48x15, found a pair of Nitto B123 bars on ebay for £20, so had to go for it at that price and see how I get on. The bar tape is only on as a test.

  I got Miche Pistard wheels with Vittoria Pista Graphene 23mm tyres.

  And a new Velo Orange stem to bring a bit of the classic cycle vibe to round things off.

  I'm not entirely sure what the tension on the chain needs to be, but I'm blaming the red wine for chopping the chain too small- I got away with it...Just.

  Still thinking about colour, but I found a powder coating place near work, so I'll take it there next week!

• East london cruiser to track racer supremo

  in Current Projects • 4 years, 4 months

  

  Good question JT. I'm going to find a powder coating place near me in my post-lockdown abode in Salisbury. I really like the Matt/satin look as I think it just adds a touch of class to the occasion.

  I want something up the side of it as it just finishes it off nicely, but I wont be reinstating the Dolan branding. I was thinking I'd come up with a fun phrase (as putting my name up the side would be too much) but have that fun phrase translated into Japanese as a nod to the Keirin, and I think it will just look quite cool.

  Klein blue, Corally pink or sunshine yellow. And decal colours in contrasting colours. Or just white. Not sure yet, but I'll design something snazzy and get my printer at work to cut the vinyls for me.

• East london cruiser to track racer supremo

  in Current Projects • 4 years, 4 months

  

  And fair enough, I like to think I’m a feminist, so I’ll refrain from using that pronoun in future.

  *I’ll get zher painted up