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 Amos
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Looking for inspiration and ideas! 🙂


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 10:10 am
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Doesn't usually have mudguards!

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Posted : 05/08/2010 10:59 am
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A different Singular:

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My mongrel 'Fake Dawes'

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Posted : 05/08/2010 11:00 am
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Mine looks like a singlespeed...
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But has secret sturmey!

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Posted : 05/08/2010 11:08 am
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Now with bar tape
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Dave Yates
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Posted : 05/08/2010 11:19 am
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ingenious positioning of the sturmey shifter, i like it!

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Posted : 05/08/2010 11:27 am
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I bought the bike off the "My Dad's Calud Buttler" thread 🙂

Also got a fixie/singlespeed that just needs a BB and re-dish to the rear wheel to get it spinning.


 
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Made to measure from Brian Rourke. Can't recommend enough.
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More modern:

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Posted : 05/08/2010 1:19 pm
 Amos
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Sam both your bikes are beautiful! Tell me some m ore about them?


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 2:31 pm
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My Lemond Sarthe. True Temper Platinum OX. Bonty Race fork, Full Ultegra 6500 9sp, Pro Lite Luciano wheels Conti GP/Spesh Armadillo tyres, EA50 post, Reynolds X-105 stem, Bonty Race Lite bars, Bel Air Ti saddle. Rides great, very comfy and I don't feel broken after a 3hrs+ rides. Still very quick and surprisingly light. Without the guards and the seat pack it weights 9.3kg (used fishing scales), change of tyres and tubes and it would be just under 9kg. And it's orange.

[edit] bike in the pic has a different stem but because I lost my gut now I have a -8 degrees Reynolds stem (so not sky high :-)) and longer at 120mm instead of 100mm as well. [edit]


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 3:27 pm
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I have a white Genesis Flyer like this -

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By the side of my desk I have a growing pile of parts to build up a 2011 Genesis Equilibrium frame up into a winter commuter. This is the new Reynolds 725 version. Frame is not in the country for another couple of weeks so expect photos of it in about 3 weeks.


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 3:34 pm
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mister p anyidea of price of the equilibrium frames when they land?


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 4:02 pm
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853 custom Campagnolo Record 11, steerer cut now 🙄

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Columbus SLX, Shimano 600ex, Rolls saddle on now 🙄

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Posted : 05/08/2010 4:48 pm
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Equlibrium frame is £230 I found out yesterday which is a beagain imo


 
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Its paid for itself several times in avoiding bus fares 🙂


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 5:30 pm
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My (Dads) bike and my mates aluminum/carbon bike behind...It'll never catch on

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Sam - love those! Really looking forward to the Osprey (& Kite)/

bob-summers - please tell me more about the Pegoretti. Responsorium is calling me...


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 10:04 pm
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Lovely looking frame flip.


 
Posted : 05/08/2010 10:28 pm
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nice pre-bankrupsy sunn. some sort of fuji tubing


 
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panniered up

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My ex.

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Great thread!


 
Posted : 06/08/2010 7:55 am
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653 Harry Quinn-

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Posted : 06/08/2010 8:18 am
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Lovely ctk, but i need them brake levers for my forthcoming project 😛


 
Posted : 06/08/2010 8:31 am
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karnali - the 2011 Equilibrium frame is £279.99 and the fork is £119.99


 
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most used bike: Fixie inc Betty Leeds (beautiful)
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porn bike: Holdsworth professional prototype.(beautifuler)
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work/hack bike:rebadged Thorn Audax.(Beautifulish)
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Posted : 06/08/2010 9:35 am
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That Holdsworth is nice. £££?


 
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Genesis Equilibrium, formerly owned by Mister P, lovely bike.


 
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Its a Mercain.....


 
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Posted : 06/08/2010 12:20 pm
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Redted

that Holdsworth needs some retro parts 😐


 
Posted : 06/08/2010 12:43 pm
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Sam both your bikes are beautiful! Tell me some m ore about them?

The first one is a [url= http://www.singularcycles.com/peregrine.html ]Singular Peregrine[/url] - repainted recently.

The Second is a prototype [url= http://www.singularcycles.com/projects.html ]Singular Osprey[/url]. This one actually is my Dad's, but I have one as well.


 
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bob-summers - please tell me more about the Pegoretti. Responsorium is calling me...

wonderful frame, builds up to about 7,5kg with chorus 11 and my 'climbing' wheels. the eurus' in the pic were just on for a race. it's a marcelo, built a couple of years ago.. took almost a year coz dario was ill at the time. columbus spirit tubes. bought it as i was moving from london to the mountains and needed something a bit more spritely on the climbs... and it coincided with a redundancy cheque!
i've done a lot of time on this bike, i was racing every week in may & june and won nowt but we were always the first non-carbon bike back 😉
in balance, maybe if i was buying again i'd go for the duenda, as the marcelo is silly stiff at the back, i had to put that ugly layback post on just to damp some of the buzz. but then, i notice prices of pegorettis have not far off doubled since i bought it...not sure if i could lay out that kind of money.
but if you do go for one, dario's a lovely guy to deal with (and a stoner which you wouldn't think would go hand in hand with framebuilding!) and supposedly built pinarello branded frames for indurain, so comes with a bit of a pedigree 😉

and good luck with the paint job... i love mine but haven't met anyone who doesn't hate it!


 
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Powder coated 853 Poprad.


 
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My 'real' mountain bike...

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I really like this shot for 'inspiration'

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Oh,that reminds me redted,loved the look of your OHs DH bike.[Thinnking about it]Neil.


 
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I don't know much about road bikes, but love the look of all the LeMond frames.

Been trying to see where I can buy them but it seems they don't make them anymore? 🙁


 
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My full custom Waterford

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Oh,that reminds me redted,loved the look of your OHs DH bike.[Thinnking about it]Neil

Really sorry bud, It's been sold, It's in the french Alps now, so It's got a nice home.


 
Posted : 06/08/2010 8:31 pm
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Blimey Doctor, how tall are you?


 
Posted : 06/08/2010 8:57 pm
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So you guys who are SS on road, do you find you spin out a lot or is it ok if you have a hard enough gear?


 
Posted : 06/08/2010 9:01 pm
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_tom_ that's a very good question! Most of the bikes I really love are SS but trying to decide whether I can cope with SS on the road, fixie is out of the question


 
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Mmmmmm that Holdsworth.


 
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nice looking Pegoretti marcelo, i met Dario a couple of weeks ago at the premiere of the short film made about him (very little about bikes, lots of swearing/arm waving/drinking)
my duende, never got round to taking pics of it built up.

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My Ritchey! A bit more cross than road! Tis almost the season!
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[i]So you guys who are SS on road, do you find you spin out a lot or is it ok if you have a hard enough gear? [/i]

Depends on the gear. And the rider.

My pompino, which I do a bit of road riding on (in between offroad stuff), has 44:16 on it. That's great on the road with some big fat tyres on it. It's a bit tricky down hills mind. It's a monster up offroad climbs though.


 
Posted : 06/08/2010 11:54 pm
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So you guys who are SS on road, do you find you spin out a lot or is it ok if you have a hard enough gear?

If your journey is pretty much flat, you just keep at a constant, comfortable speed and cruise. If you're going up and down loads of hills you wouldn't be riding SS now would you 🙄


 
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Never mind...I'm going cycling...will post pic later.


 
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If you're going up and down loads of hills you wouldn't be riding SS now would you

um yeah actually


 
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Blimey Doctor, how tall are you?

Only 186cm tall. The bike looks big in the pic but it was properly sized for me with a full bike fit!


 
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With drops

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With risers

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Now with black tyres and a lower front end. Campy chorus carbon 10 speed, Bonty wheels and cockpit, godawful Look seatpost that can't hold a saddle for toffee. Weight is 8kg/17.5lbs.

I've got it the wrong way round- my fixie is alu (I use it for a flat commute and don't spin out).

Also, my old fixie.

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Le Jeune, french, custom built for a triathlete, cost me AU$180 (£75 at the time), converted to fixed.


 
Posted : 07/08/2010 8:20 pm
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My On-One Il Pompino

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Posted : 09/08/2010 3:45 pm
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If you're going up and down loads of hills you wouldn't be riding SS now would you

riding 48:18 on the road, its a big enough gear to be able to accelerate with the traffic in town and just about small enough to [i]just[/i] get up the hills i need to.
That said i dont commute fixed because the hills are too steep to get down!


 
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If you're going up and down loads of hills you wouldn't be riding SS now would you

Well, now you come to mention it...


 
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FRAME - On One Il Pompino XL (57cm)
FORK - On One Il Pompino
WHEELS - Mavic Open Pro 36h / Goldtec hubs (fixed) / DT Swiss spokes
TYRES - Vittoria Randonneur 700 x 28C
INNER TUBES - Continental Cross 28 - 25-35c 42mm
SPROCKET - Dura Ace 16t
LOCK RING - Dura Ace
CRANKSET - Sugino 75 - 170mm, 48t
BB - Sugino 75
PEDALS - Burgtec Penthouse Flats MKII
SADDLE - SDG Bel-Air RL Ti
SEATPOST - Thomson Elite 27.2 x 410mm
SEAT CLAMP - Salsa 30.0mm Lip-Lock
STEM - Thomson X2 100mm x 10deg x 31.8
BARS - Answer Pro Taper OS
GRIPS - ODI Ruffian
BRAKES - Avid Single Digit Titanium
BRAKE LEVERS - Avid Speed Dial Ultimate Ti
HEADSET - Chris King NoThreadSet Sotto Voce 1-1/8
CHAIN - KMC Kool
C/TENSIONER - Surly Tuggnut
QR SKEWERS - Shimano XTR M960 / Quando


 
Posted : 18/08/2010 5:52 am
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something a little different 1961 bsa star rider
3 speed sturmey hub ,front dyno hub, weighs a ton but rides nice
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