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This is that website I was talking about by the way: http://www.e-hongfu-bikes.com/. Seems like its too good to be true but it actually is true! The majority of my road bike came from here (frame, rims, hubs, aero bars, stem, headset, seat post) and came to about £600!!! And that pretty much all you need for a fixed gear :D and I've been riding it 2 years now and nothing has put a foot wrong, even after a 70 mile daily commute for a couple of months! Anywho, enjoy browsing, it makes for good dreaming!
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- Mark
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Going to have to put an old road bike brake lever on as brake levers i ordered still arent here :( and for proper riding probs should have a brake :D see you tonight.
- Mark
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Ha, fair enough. See you there.
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I'll be coming this week, work and patients not deciding to die at ten to five permitting. Is it fixed gears or road bikes?
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It had two coats of acrylic finishing varnish on top of that too to make it nice and glossy and to protect it. That part was scary as I was so scared that I was going to screw up the varnish and irreversibly ruin the paint job!
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Also, I actually tapered the size of the squares on the fork so they got smaller and smaller as the fork got thinner and thinner so that they wouldn't run into each other haha! :D may have gotten a little delirious after a while!
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Just incase that wasn't very clear, I drew a diagram: http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7864286508
As you can see if you remove the pink squares, ie where the tape overlaps, you are left with a checkered pattern of tape. -
Stripped it down completely, then payed on a few primer coats. Then did a full couple of layers of white over the whole frame. Once hat was dry, I bought thin tape (you can get it in any width on eBay as they use it when they spray cars to outline designs and tape off boarders etc) and I ran tape in strips along each tube, leaving a gap between strips of the same width as the strip. I then ran loops of tape around the tubes, again, leaving a tape's width between each strip. This then crated the basis. Next I took a scalpel/sharp Stanley knife and cut the squares where the tape met along each side of the square and then used small tweezers to peel off those squares. This left me with a checker pattern of tape. Layed on a few layers of black, waited til it was dry, and then tweezered off the tape, revealing the white underneath and hey presto it was very checkered! And quite cool I think, although it's not for everyone haha! Bit hypnotic! but given that the tape was around 1cm wide, you can imagine how long it took to do! The frame is back in london at the mo but I'll bring it up next time I'm down there, definitely be good to build it up again!
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7864028386
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7864029096
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7864029840
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7864030410
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52884248@N08/7864031378These are my current projects. First two are pretty much done, just waiting on an order of brake levers and then the blue/white one will get some white bar tape (although I like it with the bare bars myself) and the yellow one will get some brown leather bar tape to match the leather seat :) the other two are a bit behind, still need to build the blue rims up etc, the blue one - the paint is pretty bad so thinking I may do a paint strip and try my hand again at spraying, quite exciting too as it seems like the entire bike may have been chromed before they painted it so may be able to have a predominantly chrome frame with some paint effects where the chrome is poor... We shall see! Any suggestions would be welcome.
not me tonight i'm afraid, late shift at work. next week fo sho though haha