I never had the pleasure of meeting the chap but after reading the thread I feel like he would have approved of my latest build.
She is called Strawberry and preliminary trips round the block have confirmed that the ride is very smooth.

home made cable guide cushions

XT upfront, X9 at the back

Looks good.

Strawberry?!…you big raspberry! 😉

Strawberry??

+1

All my bikes have names.
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Be my friend.
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Why are you running away?

Were they out of these? 😉

🙂

^WANT^

I see that you paused telly to take the pic…what was on?

Nice bike.

You need to get it dirty. Brian said he never had time to clean his bike, if he did, he would rather ride it. Looks nice though 😉

Wow! Thanks hoops that’s very kind of you. I’m sure messiah would’ve approved.

And fivespot is right, go get it dirty 😀

excellent 🙂

Red Nicolais are the best, this one trekked around the scotland, with Messiah & Yetiman and the malaysian jungle 🙂

agreed, needs to have the christened look 🙂

It’ll be christened tomorrow night in the Peaks. Looking forward to opening the taps down the Fox Inn.

Appears to be red
Appears to have the correct size wheel
and for extra bonus points: Conti verts!!

Approve

We’ll look out for you whizzing past and think of messiah.

Conti verts?! How very 2004

We’ll look out for you whizzing past standing at the side of the trail swearing at your broken pedals

Eggbeaters rock 😆

Just got back. By Christ it’s good and the 2×10 setup is totally rad gnarly phat kool. #downwiththekidz