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1. it's not as twitchy as it looks, the geo is quite relaxed with a 73 degree head tube angle wich makes the bike handle nice, imho.

2. yes, it has a coaster brake
   Bar stem combo is an experiment for setup on a Polo and/or Trick bike, maybe a little more rise on the bars would be better.... the current setup feels good for just city riding too.

@apc ^

what is your bike for? its like a bit of everything?

No brake bridge? I know that strictly speaking its not a necessaity, but doesn't it help to minimise seatstay flex that is created from the power being applied to one side of the wheel? Honest question, as I am not an engineer.

@Willpalmer: I just use it for driving around the city....it's not specificly build for a special purpose, just felt like building this bike

@GA2G: I actually made a brake bridge for this frame, but when I tack welded it in place, I realized I liked the frame better without it. I know it helps minimizing flex but there is a pretty large weld area on seatstay-seattube section which seems to stiffen the rear end up enough. I didn't notice any flex so far (and I tried...)

what? twitchy as hell, no brakes and no foot retention

plus it looks hideous

Coaster brake. I don't understand why you would build yourself a custom bike to have 0 stem length. Kinda makes sense with a kids balance bike but on a full size thing?

To my surprise I made it into the Bike Porn section......oh, and into the Bike Anti Porn as well.... ;)
(quotes are from anti porn thread)

1. it's not as twitchy as it looks, the geo is quite relaxed with a 73 degree head tube angle wich makes the bike handle nice, imho.

2. yes, it has a coaster brake
   Bar stem combo is an experiment for setup on a Polo and/or Trick bike, maybe a little more rise on the bars would be better.... the current setup feels good for just city riding too.

I finally finished my singlespeed bike (already posted a frame picture in my Balance Bike post, http://www.lfgss.com/thread52613.html)

Specs:

• Frame, designed and homemade out of straight gauge CrMo steel,
  
• custom made handlebars-stem combo,
  
• Crank Brothers Cobalt C headset,
  
• Leader V2 Trick Star forks,
  
• Cinelli Unicanitor seat on Thomson elite seatpost,
  
• SRAM S300 1.1 chainset with 44T chainring,
  
• BMX grips,
  
• track dropouts,
  
• 16T Shimano coaster brake hub (painted black),
  
• Octane One pedals
  
  

Pics:

More info: www.roelvanheur.nl

as promised: how did I do it....

First I designed the bike and made a SolidWorks drawing

After that, I cut all the tubes, mittered the tubing by hand, than tack welded togheter and checked with the 2D drawings

First impression with wheels

Frame, forks and handlebars primed and ready for paint

All steel parts and front wheel painted matte black and headset placed

The fibreglass wheelcover, just out of the silicone mould....sorry, no pics of sanding, trimming edges and applying sticker.

Finished bike

Fantastic, it would be good if you could document your next one (if there is a next one) with photos and descriptions etc... Blog style... I would be very interested in the whole process!

I made some pictures during the build. I'll see if I can post these tonight....

Mini Lo Pro

After this first build, I received a lot of great reactions to the little bike. Recently I was asked to build another one!

For this build I used Lo-Pro's for inspiration.

Specs:
CrMo frame & forks,
Custom stem/handelbars set,
Track dropouts,
Deda bar tape,
BMX mini seat,
10" front, 12" rear wheel
Fiberglass wheelcovers with custom graphics

@Fox, yes, and a chain to...

@31, I brazed my logo (like my avatar) on the back. I think it looks a little more subtle there than a headbadge

me too

it's an amazing bike. so sweet looking. such a perfect gift
Would it be easy to scale up?

I'm building a scaled up frame for myself...

Thanks. I had a blast building this thing.

It's gonna be a she! But you can't get them hooked on bikes soon enough, can you. And I just like to be the favorite uncle of course... She'll probably be able to ride it at the age of two, so that gives me time to build her her first real bike.

Dropouts are home made as well, they were supposed to go on my own frame, but this got in between.

Bar/stem combo is going to be tested for strenght soon, i'm currently finishing a fixed/singlespeed (still have to decide on that) for myself with that setup.

My sister is expecting her first born in a couple of weeks, so what present to give....?
So I build her this balance bike

-full CrMo, home build frame and forks
-custom handlebars
-oury's
-BMX mini seat
-plastic wheels
-inspired on old school female race frames

To check the size, I asked a colleagues kid to try it....

I know, but we want to visit relatives on the east coast...can't expect them to move just to make our trip more interesting, or can I...?

@ teenslain. Thanks, I'll check it out...

I'm going to Australia (traveling eastcoast from Cairns to Sydney) and was wondering if there are fixie/bikestores I HAVE to check out? Suggestions welcome!
Cheers.

Thanks!
Google must hate me...

looks more then a few inches to me...

Hi, could any of you Gangsta owners tell me the height from top of crown to axle center of the Gangsta front forks? Like to know if it will ruin my bikes geo. thnx

HELP...
I was wondering if anyone could send me a picture of the Anatomy T-shirt, ideally someone wearing it. (didn't receive my shirts yet)
I want to use the picture of my shirt design for a job interview, so if anyone could help me out....
Thnx

RvH - cheers for the artwork fella, It all looks good

Glad I could help.

aye geezer - I sent you an email last week :^]

The illustrator file needs to be made screen ready [i.e. anything that is printed white on the t-shirt should be black on the artwork]

you've drawn it in white and loads of the paths are strokes not fills so you can't just 'flip' the colours - it would be aces if you can get it done as it's a sweet design

any probs PM me for me number

Sorry, must have missed your email....
I'll try to invert the colours asap.
Can you PM me your mail address so I can send it to you directly?

All finalised artwork (minus Anatomy which is needing more substantial work) was received last night. Money should go over today... which means in production today.

Is there anything I can do to help with my artwork?

could be mine or boon's

mine has white spokes and hobs, bars, seatpost

i'm not sure if boon still has his

i found a pic of mine here

Thanks, yours is the one!

I remember seeing a real nice Bianchi D2 pista in here (or maybe in current projects), but I can't find it anymore. Dus anyone know where to find it? Thanks

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