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Is there room to remove a link from the chain to slam the rear wheel? The cut out is looking awful lonely.
Not previously - I'd have needed a half-link. Now that I've switched cranksets I'm gonna give it another try though - things seemed slightly slacker. Gonna be touch and go though...
There's not a heck of a lot of room in the dropouts anyway. Even as far in as they'll go, the tyre still isn't touching the cutout.
I'm really the only one who likes the red, huh? Sad.
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Take the brakes off aswell, for a true HHSB!
And a £400 fine! Japan sucks. If it weren't for that, the rear brake would be long gone.
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The last piece of the puzzle will be a red rear rim on black spokes/hub with black tire. Broke now though, so that will come when it comes!
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Go straight to anti, do not pass go, do not collect 200 hipster points
Why so mean? I'm gonna go cry into my PBR now.
Quite honestly, I test-rode the wheel before I made a decision and for all the bad words that get thrown at them, they ride really nicely. It's all very smooth and it feels bombproof. A little harder to get going from stopped, but once it's rolling it definitely has a lot of momentum. It may be a phase and I may sell it on in a few months, who knows, but for now fuck the haters - I'm enjoying myself and that's what biking is all about, right? :)
PS - That's a top tube inner tube wrap, not a pad. And it serves a purpose, I swear!
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Only colours they had were black, blue, pink and bare 'carbon'. I went for the naked Spok. I have SOME class! Also it was 20% cheaper.
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Forgive me, oh Lord, for I have Spokked.
Photo later since I'm fairly sure my bike is now firmly in HHSB territory. Fuck it, what's life if you can't have a little fun, eh!
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This is said local bike, and the one that turned me onto shiny silver rims in the first place. Old-skool salve!
There's a bike with a red Arrospok floating around uni, too - I'll get a pic of that when I next see it.
Red is not bad, when placed properly and rarely. But get rid of the chainring..
Yeah, replacing the crankset entails replacing everything. I want better cranks than the current Lascos and a rounder chainring as well. I'll be going with the all too common Sugino Messengers, because I currently have a 103mm BB and don't want to switch that out as well, and they seem solid enough. I don't mind the looks of the fat chainring either.
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Bars and bar ends are silver (not replacing the fuckers AGAIN) but mostly wrapped in black.
I'm very tempted to just build an all-black S42 front and replace the tire up there in black (I want something more puncture-resistant) and leave the rear as red hub/spokes, black rim and red-sidewall tire (until I wear it out).
I don't know if that small splash of red will just look really out of place then, though.
I don't REALLY want to do a totally stealth build because frankly there are too many of them (and I secretly like the red).
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There's a guy rocking them in my area, too. In fact I'll upload his bike when I'm not on my iPad - it'll fit right in here. Even has the long-extinct top tube pad!
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This thread has a lot to answer for. I still want a stronger front wheel and my options are:
1 - Black front H+Son S42 (most likely)
2 - Matching set of shiny silver S42s (uhh...)
3 - Black front Arrospok (lazy artist's impression below) (please god, no)
The crankset will be switched out for something all black, as will the tires, probably.
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I see a pattern emerging
I get the first two (sigh), but not the third!
I've talked myself out of the Spok now, thank fuck!
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Nothing against the shape, it's the branding I dislike. Might look alright on a really clean build otherwise a bit busy.
Ah. Yeah. The white one and one of the black versions are quite busy. The one I have is black with almost entirely subdued black text (just shiny, rather than the flatish black of the saddle body) so it doesn't look bad at all. Plainer than my old saddle which was more or less just a two-tone red and black paneled job.
Like this:
And I swear it looks plainer in natural light!
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Hate those saddles.
Sorry, San Marco.
Why? They're just a (much) less cushy version of the Concor. Once your cheeks are used to its rock-hardness it's actually a very comfortable saddle. I like mine, anyway!
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Get the Mash horns, they're actually amazing to ride with and super comfy. Not the cheapest but IMO pretty much worth it..
I already changed my bars once this month - not doing it again! The MASH bars are lust rather than actual desire, I think. I'm very happy with my current Nitto horns.
The 'Spok, though. Oh god. OH GOD.
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price?
Aimed at me? If so, the answer is too much, but reasonable by Japanese standards...
They have a HED 3 too, but the tag on that thing is fucking INSANE.
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I found a local shop with black front Aerospokes in stock today. I'm 70% towards just buying one when I get paid on Monday. This thread fucking sucks.
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Mmmm. I really want a set of MASH horns at the moment...
I'd go with black or white cranks though.
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THIS is why you should never carry whole bottles of ketchup in your mouth while riding.
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Got a flat today. Pretty much buggered the inner tube so I just replaced it,
Recycling in action! :)
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Yeah, apparently Tibbs has a dummy brake to fit when he gets to Tokyo. He should be ok. Talking to him on Facebook at the moment. The wonders of t'internet, eh?
And it was Emile I bumped into in person. Mystery solved!
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It just all looks so... wrong...
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Another MyFixedGear gem:
April 9th, 2012 @2:32 am
Cool..! Maybe some really deep drops?April 9th, 2012 @5:32 am
Ya,really deep drops. Like off the side of a bridge. -
Tibbs' with the gold hubs and cranks. Love that they've been spotted in Japan! Can't remember who else has gone. Emile,Thom, Mark, Lola?
Ah, if that's Tibbs' bike then that's not who I met, although I suspect they were all together. I met the guy riding the dark red fixed gear with both brakes and padded downtube - he was looking for his friends (Tibbs and co, I guess!).
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In Tokyo, yeah. I have a friend who got done recently. Given an on-the-spot fine.
In Kyoto maybe not so much, but you often see (clueless) traffic cops on street corners checking bikes for lights, etc when they stop at crossings. Only takes one to know the actual law. Not worth the risk to me - the fine is a third of what I get paid each month! It was bad enough for them to give up on KyotoLoco, so...