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That's a valid point, Mr. B. I'd rather have Dave's signature on the bike. I've been a fan for a while and I'm proud to have one of his bikes. He built some of the 7-11 team bikes in the eighties and he has an interesting approach to geometry and design. My name would shame the bike a bit.

I'm using the campy chorus 11 group off my previous bike and various other parts I've acquired over the last couple of years:
Fizik Cyrano post
Ritchey WCS stem
H+Son TB14 rims with White Industries T11 hubs
Whisky brand cages

I have some Easton bars that I'm going to try.

As for the paint, I asked for a near-black shade of blue with muted yellow, red and grey highlights in the Eddy Merckx style. This is his interpretation. I never made the flag connection!

Thanks, gents! I hope the parts I picked look good on the frame. I'll post once I get it all together.

What's great about this is that my deleted thread is getting more response than the current project I was trying to post about.

Tyres are spoken for, by the way.

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http://www.kirkframeworks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/DSC_9235.jpg

I am extremely tempted to have them clear coat it and leave it raw. It's torture deciding on paint.

Everything's done. Any ideas for paint?

You should have seen the pictures! It was going to change everything for me! Damn you, off-brand American tubing!

Reynolds makes a tubing specifically for him. I think it's even called "Reynolds Kirk Proprietary Tubing" or something like that. I believe there may also be some Reynolds 953 and True Temper S3 in there. He also uses Sachs and Llewellyn lugs.

Dave Kirk is building me a bike. Thought I'd post some pictures.

I haven't decided on paint yet. I'm thinking about doing a black / blue and some pink.

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We had a pre-owned version of that GT in our shop for a while, but it was obviously a bit dirtier. If I'd known it could look like that....

That aqua bike is a perfect road bike! don't convert it, just either sell it or get a new/old frame and start from there.

I have a proper road bike in the stable. This trek is my school bike. Never really ridden fixed before and though I'd give it a try. I work at a bike shop in Texas and thought I'd put something together out of stock parts. Don't want to sell it but I also don't want to buy a new frame.

I'm going fixed on this one. I've built some wheels with track hubs - phil woods on Open Pros. Silver seems to work pretty good. Any suggestions on changes?