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So good. I'd ditch the chainring for a classic styled one, if not black then maybe purple like the hubs...

But aside from that, #chefskiss

Why not just get the biggest pulleys you can jam in the stock cage.

That's 12/14t there... Fit in 10s Red cage with no modification, but had to hack the pins on the 9070. Gives some improvement and looks way better than the goofy and expensive aftermarket cages IMO.

Found the pulleys on eBay, IIRC... These ones are narrow/wide. Resin is the go, ally ones are noisy.

Part of why I reckon it looks better than stock is the extra clearance has been fettled away; the pulleys barely miss each other.

Five stars and chef's kiss

Looks like it was carved out of some extremely thick paint buildup...

Usually I find chrome stays and fork doesn't leave enough frame colour, but given yours is black and you've got the deep carbon rims, it's pure win.

Flash. I think I like it

Wow, such fugly.

I reckon that Birdy on the previous page is actually pretty awesome, except for the stupid wheels

Gatorskin hate is based on the fact it's like putting clogs on your bike. Rather than lose all comfort, grip, and speed, many folks figure actual tyres are preferable

Extra braking when the tyre hits the downtube

Wow, that headset has its work cut out... I guess the head tube was made that short on the understanding there's no front brake

Put me in the 'aero bikes look shit unless they're aero' camp...

IIRC, wheels are a bigger factor than frameset, so non aero bikes with deep wheels are cool, but not vice versa, I'd venture. 50mm of a modern profile is easy to handle in crosswinds; can't see the point of low profile rims unless climbing...

Yeah nah, I'm like fuck it, I'm not confident I can pull it off, despite having a history of pretty bangin' first tries at stuff like this, and it wouldn't be my first try, even. Definitely prefer to drop the dough on a pro, and it seems to me that with a bit of experimentation and experience, someone should have found a good blasting medium and got a good feel for it by now...

OTOH, I'd way rather I bugger it up than pay someone else to bugger it up, and if there's nobody in Melbourne or Oz who's up to it, I'm not down for shipping my frameset around the world; fuck that shit these days...

ETA: watched the vid, wish that bloke was a local... Still, I guess I don't need to find a bike painter with a blasting booth; just maybe either a specialised or very generalised blaster dude - can't see anything about the process that requires it to be a bike guy, unlike painting.

Now you mention it... Sounds like that should be in The Rules.

That's what I was afraid of... Pretty bumming there isn't a good medium for blasting, was hoping walnut shell or some sort of plastic beads were a goer.

Stripped a carbon frame by scraping back in the day, and overdid it; extremely tough to stop at the boundary between carbon and paint. Maybe not such a bummer with unidirectional carbon, but crimes on show with twill.

The frame I want to strip has brushed metal decals and stripe tape under clear; the prospect of sanding what's left of the clear after the decals have been peeled, without going into adjacent bare carbon is pretty daunting...

FC-9000 goes pretty good with a triple triangle

Anyone know where I can find some tips for stripping a carbon frame set?

How about this for a frankenbike...

My bro dug it up from a chook shed like fifteen years ago; I did some major mods to make it roadworthy - added canti posts for V brakes all round, rebuilt the rear wheels with hub gears, grafted suspension into the middle rear, plus a hub motor up front and 500W sound system. Also ended up narrowing the whole thing a few inches to get it under 2.5m wide so it was legal.

It was an instant mobile party, great fun. Got pinched by some Greenpeace douchebags though, I'm led to believe

Tight AF, except Italian bikes without Campy are a bit wrong IMO.

The oil slick EEs are pure win. Maybe some of that black bar tape with the colour right on the end would balance the flash of colour on the seat, if you can match it

Look at the loft on that cap, perfect!

Don't get it... Disc wheel but extra frontal area of cap loft

Or just use saddles that are, you know, saddle shaped and not stupidly flat.

Ye Gods, glad that didn't catch on...

Is there a road test of this thing up anywhere...?

Kenny Souza there... blowing my mind.

Who needs time trial hair when you're that cool

I wouldn't consider a steel frameset without a sloping fork crown and fastback or wishbone seatstays, this is nice.

Looks a size too big for the rider, unless a couple of decades of compact frames have warped my eye