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That's not gorgeous baby blue is it?
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If you have an item for sale anywhere other than here, like ebay, bikeradar, ctc, retrobike, etc. then you cannot post it here..
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Dibs, PM'd
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In a word: expensive
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BLIMEY NICE WORK!
Doe's he want an apprenticeship!! Or shall I hunt him down and shoot him LOL.
Seriously. It just needs a pair chain stays putting in it, believe it or not that fantastic repair work won't have done it any damage to the rest of the frame.
1 pr of stays around £90 fitted and a respray and stickers around £100 depending on how flash.
The frame probably cracked due to being chromed and then not looked after.
Thanks very much for that, I'll tell him and hopefully he'll get in contact with you. Oh and I presume you meant £90 for the repair and another £100 for the respray? unless you're the most value'tastic respray place around
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I was brought a bike today (which I shall talk about in a minute) which had such an awful repair job on it It got me thinking, what was the worst repair jobs I'd ever seen? This bike happened to be up there on my list, but I'm sure people have seen worse so please share.
This is my first submission; A friend brought me his 'new bike' too look at, as he felt he might have damaged the thread on his wheel (turns out hes stripped it but thats another story), when he called me he mentioned that he'd been given a Brian Rourke for free so I was quite looking forward to seeing it. Sure enough it turned out to be quite a nice frame (531 with campag dropouts and a Campag headset too).
Sorry about the Photo quality, I only had my phone.
On closer inspection I noticed something 'amiss' with the chains stays...
Turns out he'd noticed a crack in the chain stay and asked his dad to repair it, which he did by using buckets of solder and a pieces of copper pipe...
He doesn't seem to mind but personally theses no way I'd ride is, it can't be safe!Anyway has anyone got anything better? or should I say worse?
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Having read this thread I felt my bike was entirely unsafe with just a KryptoLok series 2, so I just picked up an abus 54x plus, as I dont live in london this will be fine for the moment but I will be moving up soon so a mini d will be in order for the front. Is it ott to get a new york for the front? I'm presuming that london tea leaves are a bit more determined that swansea ones?
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Edit: Undibs on the large track frame sorry everyone
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As a swansea resident I can confirm that constitution hill is horrific to try and ride up, worse in the wet not to mention how rough the area round the top is,. Throwing stones at passers by seems to be somewhat of permeant occupation for the some local kids
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i rode my fixed tourer across Pangea, fuck all y'all
Only reason pangea split is because i did a wicked rad mega skid over a fault line and pushed those plates apart
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ah thanks, too narrow is all i needed to know I'll just find something eles cut them to preference cheers though
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I can't really find any reviews or even any photos of them on anyones bike.
Normally I'd get wide bars and cut them down to a width i'm confortable with, but i rather like the look of the pepper ones and i"d to know bit more before I buy, so has anyone used them? I have a lingering suspicion that there are better options and i'm being swayed by the cinelli badge... -
This is NSFW but it make me laugh clicky
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I was surprised to discover the vans ones done have recessed cleats
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They're £80 and according to their twitter feed if you go into their 14 bike co shop and shout "french toast" they'll give you 20% off.
I dont want them that much
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followed by this:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1940342
and this
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I'd love a pair of those mission shoes, anyone know how much they are?
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how do you even mange to get air bubbles in cloth tape? How old was this guy? It sounds like something you'd find a work experience kid doing
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Do you find comfortable to use the brake in that position?
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or man up instead, ha!
Hush your mouth sion! I've been ridding 64.3 on my other bike, its amazing I accelerate up hills! besides I always thought it was more manly to ride lower gears because you have to spin faster to do the same speeds on the flat
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I think they're shaped like that as a nod to aerodynamics, as you're not actually expected to hold that part on a proper TT build, since the tribars get in the way.
Quite true they just fit my hands nicely and mean I can ride for more than an hour without my hand going like this
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Spotter, I really like that Leader, maybe that's the direction i should head.Thinking of selling my Dolan frame so could move onto one of those instead, what forks are those?
They're Columbus Tusk Airs, they're way cheaper than the leader forks at £110. A few places sell them, including Ceeway's who do free shipping. You'll struggle to find the 735TR's now as they've stopped making them, I found mine on here by chance, they guy I got it off had spent £320 importing it only to leave it unbulit in his garage for a year, i got it for £190 in the end, tres cheap i thought for what was basically a new frame.
strange bar angle on that leader
It looks like that because the tops of the bars are oval shaped to fit the palm of your hand, I had a nasty wrist/hand injury last year (lots of broken bones, snapped tendons and a lost knuckle) and as a consequence i need a bigger surface to stop my hand aching i.e. the tops of track drops as they're too narrow. I could probably get away with modern super wide drops but they ugly. I find these the best medium between drops and risers, wide straight area for most of the time and low extensions for sprinting and climbing
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I just sent a pm as a long shot