It was raining, I w...
 

[Closed] It was raining, I was in the garage, there was a frame and some spares...

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...so I built my winter commuter hack bike - flame away!! ๐Ÿ˜€

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Posted : 03/01/2014 3:26 pm
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Ace


 
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Nice, enjoy matey!


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 3:32 pm
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I have trouble throwing stuff away too ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 3:33 pm
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What's in the green trug?


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 3:35 pm
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Would look better without the bar ends & crazy stem

the forks would look good on the normal ss but as I've always wanted some of them I would say that


 
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Posted : 03/01/2014 3:38 pm
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Loving the Girvin forks!


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 3:39 pm
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@querty - mostly water!
@Podge - I have another pair ๐Ÿ˜€
@Bob - ay thankyou!


 
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Chain looks a bit slack.


 
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Snowflake wheel to top of the "challenging" aesthetic - nice. ๐Ÿ™‚


 
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Pointing wants doing on your dry stone wall, chain looks a little slack.
Forks are;
A - On backwards
B - The very essence of minging


 
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Saddle angle looks a bit nose down.


 
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saddle angle and chain tension worry me.

The rest is more down to aesthetics than anything else. Bar the valve/logo alignment fail which is just plain wrong.

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[i]Pointing wants doing on your dry stone wall[/i]

*slightly baffled*


 
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Big bonus points for reviving a Girvin Vector.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 3:42 pm
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The ground doesn't look very wet so what were your real motives behind building that disgusting contraption hey?


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 3:43 pm
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The frame is lovely...what'll you do about the chain tension? There's something odd about the front mudguard though...


 
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Seat post needs to be black. I quite like it ๐Ÿ™‚


 
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...in fact, apart from the frame it is an utter monstrosity


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 3:47 pm
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One more bike in the world is always a good thing, but in future, please don't post stuff like this so close to lunchtime when people have recently eaten.


 
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Bird feeder needs filling.....


 
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Everything behind the head tube looks great. The front, well that's a different matter entirely.


 
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Chain is only slack on the bottom.


 
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Did you think you'd get away with the bar-ends because you'd stealth-taped them to blend in with the hedge?


 
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I was stood right next to it last night and didn't even notice the forks! ๐Ÿ˜ฏ Must be that special stealth black paint

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Love the forks, how do they ride?


 
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@stilltortoise - they were not on it last night!! ๐Ÿ˜€
In fact neither were the mudguards, they went on as a direct result of riding home last night - I may as well have just jumped in the river!
The chain will be tensioned before it's ridden in anger.
The stem means I can sit up a bit and watch for Hora at roundabouts.


 
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Top hackery!


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 4:53 pm
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Every time someone puts mudguards on a Girvin vector fork a little baby bunny dies


 
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Every time someone puts mudguards on a Girvin vector fork a little baby bunny [s]dies[/s] is skinned alive in the On One Hat Factory of Doom.

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๐Ÿ˜‰ It's a joke, OK? ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
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Every time someone puts mudguards on a Girvin vector fork a little baby bunny dies

I know. I used their tortured souls, twisted together, to make the tie wraps that keep it on.


 
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SNOWFLAKE spoke pattern!!!


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 5:22 pm
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@Podge - I have another pair

So all I need do is convince you to sell them to me, remove the canti mounts & convert them to 15mm axle... that should take me all of about 10 years and huge amounts of stress yet some how its still appealing to me.


 
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Stevie Wonder called....


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 6:04 pm
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Good grief. That is not very nice now is it? ๐Ÿ™‚


 
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The bird feeder is empty.


 
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Stevie Wonder called....

*Ponders really bad taste joke*


 
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Stevie Wonder called....

to say...


 
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Pointing wants doing on your dry stone wall

Understanding a dry stone wall fail :mrgreen:


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 6:18 pm
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Better than gathering dust. Good work.
Reminds me, must buy mudguards for my hack.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 6:38 pm
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The dry stone walling is making the baby jesus cry. The bike looks odd.


 
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I recently joined a singlespeed group on FaceStalk and it seems to be a sub-clique of STW! ๐Ÿ˜€

But now I know people's real names.


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 9:43 pm
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Is this some stealth conspiracy to help whatsisface shift that gopping Curtis that's been a permanent fixture on the classifieds? Are you going to stick it on there for 2 grand? To lend a bit of perspective? Have you thought about adding an entirely superfluous chainring? The hideous, useless forks appear to already be in place


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 9:54 pm
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Whassup? Insufficient pie in the build for you?


 
Posted : 03/01/2014 10:38 pm
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Well....it's.....errrrrr.......different.


 
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I like a frankenbike, that's a winner


 
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