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so you shave your legs to be taken 'seriously' ....LOL

I saw it on ebay UK and thought it was too big for me and I am a bit taller than you

BUT I am often wrong

you are sorted there mate

if you don't mind me asking

how tall are you ....?

I love West London, don't matter where I am, I am London first.

Born in the old Charing X hospital dragged up in various places around West London, presently working in Paris, but technically resident in Chicago

So how do you restore it but keep the Harry Hall transfers...?

Imoncrack - I clocked the Whitcomb when you posted it on velospace last year - NICE- very nice indeed mate - I have a Roberts hybrid from 1986 - I rode it up until late last year - that included seven years of courier work - twenty years that bike lasted me - it is back at Roberts at the moment being resprayed - then the frame goes into storage - next on my list of things to do is a visit to Mercian - as much as I adore my bareknuckle - I want a sunshine bike and the Mercian is going to be it - I am going to try and build it up a British retro-'70s track - although it will in actual fact be a road track - so why a Keirin ....? - well imagine your whitcomb in sparkly purple - it doesn't really work - and I got all these NJS parts that I just keep picking up here & there - so I got to do something with them - I have a habit of building cars and all - bikes though are a hell of alot cheaper - even fancy smancy Japanese ones

So hey where did you get the RAP from...?

ImOnCrank - what frame was that, where did you get, what was it like to ride, and how the hell did you do that to it...LOL

I love the debate. Just a question though, if you already have a really nice hand made English bike (I have Chas Roberts) are you 'allowed' to have a Keirin bike too...? I know about English bikes because I have been riding them for twenty five years, I don't now much about Japanese bikes, but i'd like to know more, they fascinate me.

Years ago I was flying up Tottenham Court mouthing off big style to this cabbie

Who may or may not have invaded my personal comfort zone

Finally we stop at the lights, and I am bouncing, giving it the large one

So he gets out of his cab

and he is six two built like a brick shit house

hard core west ham football hooligan type character

and he looked liked he ment business

so discretion took the better part of valour

and as he grabbed me by the scruff of the neck

I kindly informed him that I had 'swallowed'

(my pride)

& since then I just keep my eyes open and my mouth shut

56.5 cm for sale, $1200, Chicago, damn this is a nice bike

Do you think if I ask your man on rue de l'aqueduc for a rear wheelbuild laced
x4 crows foot /radial on the non drive side that would put him in a bad mood...?
Just wondering like

Le Car, do you know of a good bike shop in Paris ...? I ask because the last time I went to a bike shop in Paris they fitting my Chris King headset with a hammer and a bit of old pipe and they fitted it upside down. I went out and bought my own tools after that.

Well actually what I want is a LEVEL or an EIMEI or a PELOTON (lugless) but even if I went to tokyo I ain't sure how to go about getting one - however if I can figure that out - I'll come back with two frames - one to ride one to sell

Well maybe I might just fly to Tokyo one weekend and pick one up, how much does it cost to fly to Tokyo...?

Anyway I thought a new Keirin frame bought in Tokyo was about $1200 minimum, I take it this is wrong

I like this

http://cgi.ebay.com/KHS-aero-track-bicycle-frame-bike-58cm_W0QQitemZ320113220093QQihZ011QQcategoryZ98084QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

with a rear disc and a carbon spoked wheel, bull horns, and a long long flat road

Gan Well Pro can be ordered through Business Cycles Miami
Yellow Jersey Madison also stock Gan Well Pro's
Bridgestones are avaliable from Keirin culture Berlin

both of the above are avaliable via the internet

Gan Well Pro's have more paint options I think

but does anyone know the merits of one of these brand frames over the other

the 'Bromber Pro' in yellow with the purple writing is that a sweet frame
I am going to have to start trawling the lonely hearts
looking for a Japanese girl to become my lover come translator come frame importer

Charlie, born and bred London, resident Paris France, london messenger circa '86 to '90, spent most of the last twenty years riding a Roberts hybrid, bought a 'barekuckle' last year about thirty minutes after discovering 'velospace' and because I like the name 'bareknuckle'.