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nice! havent had a look at the bmw.com site in a while, where have all the big travel frames gone?! they know what we want, a gangsta V1 with the original forks! which begs the question why they made the TourBoro?

any chance of some photos? not interested in all honesty, just love looking at BMW frames :P

that is a hot build! i would have loved to see it built up. really sorry to hear you are selling :(

front wheel is clincher right/

that is amazing :D cant wait to see how it turns out.

SO I put a new front brake on today, sorry for the sketchy focusing.

I was wondering if anyone could make a suggestion for forks? Im looking for a relatively stiff, straight, low rake fork. preferably with either simple decal, or minimal decal. the 3T Funda Pro stands out somewhat, but what other alternatives are there? also would people shoot me if I put a white fork on?

its stiff. really stiff! the sliding drop out, belt drive slot, does not make it soft at all. also its really fun ride :D

as for skidding, because ive upped my ratio to 48-13, i cant really tell because its hard to skid at the moment, i need to train a bit first. infact, i have had to put a front break on just for safety, photos of that in a bit.

build update 1.

i was stung by the good ol sram omnium issue of it rubbing on the frame. as a result i had to machine a bit away, and reduce the profile of the bolts. also the fork steerer isnt long enough, so i need new forks. irrespective, here is the build so far:

you are correct. it has a small piece of material which is removable above the rear drop out. took me a while to realise why that was important when the nicolai chap told me about it :P. when i can afford one, and when i am 100% comfortable with my gear ratio i may be forced to invest :D

edit, you can see the removable piece of material in pic 4, will try to get some nice close ups later.

edit edit: worth pointing out these frames can take discs too :D

the Argon Fixie was never an official frame, it was a "custom" variant of the Argon Road. burly as hell, yet still pretty light :)

size large, i picked it up from nicolai UK, someone has ordered one, then backed out, managed to get it at a really good price :)

i think a little more, however those dropouts are heavy as shit.

going to be a fun bike :)

Hi all,

I managed to get my hands on this beautiful Nicolai Argon Fixie frame. Im going to start building her up when i get a headset and seatpost. In the mean time, enjoy the photos :)

no, i went there. despite locktite on the pedals, both crank arms now have play, fortunately it was just a beater set.

uuuuh, thats more a brand new one from BLB....

http://www.bricklanebikes.co.uk/leader-kagero-frameset-oceanic-blue

basically what im going to do. gunna bend it as straight as i can, then wack a LHS drive on. will also replace most of the components with beater parts in case it fails and trashes the rear wheel/crankarms

that is the what appears to of happened yes. frame has no cracks, as far as i can tell there was no damage to it, i hadnt fallen off of it recently either.

i imagine there was a manufacturing defect in there somewhere though, or it had fatigued over time.

did you ride it with that much slack in the chain?

no, i ride with a tight chain so i can easily track stand, the slack chain is a result of the twisted frame.

Is this a subtle beholdmyawesometorque boast post?

yes

More seriously - if you're attached to the frame, take it to a frame builder and see what they say. Looks like one of the stays may have been damaged and has bent around the damaged point under load.

i actually work with a couple of chaps who design obscure bicycles (cant give any more info because it narrows them down to one group), they consider it written off because the drive side chain stay isnt bent in a local position, but the entire length. plus there are about 4 other places the frame has bent :(

Basically, i was cycling up a short steep hill, felt something slip, so i looked down and saw the chain had come off the front sprocket and was caught on the crank arm. the bike decelerated pretty quick, when i got off i saw the damage :(

heres a few photos of my baby, and the ailment she suffers from. i think it may be terminal!

drive side:

non-drive side, notice the two tone crankarms? rad as fuck. also the LHS crank arm had an accident a while back :(

pic of the cockpit, nice and narrow :)

heres a dirty gusset shot, for all you perverts out there :P

and here we have the issue.....

another shot, just to show how twisted she is

additional shots :(

they custom forks?

no luck on ebay i take it? i looked at your ad most days it was up :P

picture links are broken for me. are the wheels still available? im interested in the front.

you buy this off ebay a week ago?