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Started by divernick, Mar 11 2011 11:41

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#1 divernick

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Posted 11 March 2011 - 11:41

Lets see all the pics of projects that you're busy with or that you aspire to undertake.

I am going to convert my old Peugeot Mirage roadbike into this: (Photoshopped image)

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Posted 11 March 2011 - 11:53

Looks nice!

Not my bike, but this is IMO a super hot SS mtb.
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Posted 23 March 2011 - 10:45

I finally have my frame, after having built up the new softail... :clap:

Need to spend some time with a bit of light sanding - she needs some TLC...
When the Singlespeed.co.za boys get back to me with their stock of Blackspire chainrings - I'll be in business... :D

Here be the frame - very old-skool!


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This shot sort of shows the ovalisation of the toptube as it meets the seatpost... The same is done down below, where the seattube meets the BB...

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The headtube is ridiculously long... :)
Took off an inch of steerer when we fitted its fork to the new frame...

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Here be close-ups of Sandvik's 'window treatment' to the dropouts... :thumbup:

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When people told me I needed to upgrade my brakes, I used to respond I had already upgraded from canti's... :P

Will pop up some pics after I've cleaned the frame...
Not the lightest - weighs in at 1,550kg's - but a decent place to start, I guess!
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Posted 24 March 2011 - 09:56

I'm thinking of either trying my hand at home-made "lazer etching" (which in all likelihood would involve me covering the relevant parts with a thin metal layer (aluminium can etc) - with the cutouts in place - and then taking some very, very rough sandpaper to the exposed parts.... OR - going for a bit of airspray loving... PM'ed a Hubber to hear if he's happy with his paintwork sticking to titanium...
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Flossing.
Flossing? Where the hell did I get Munson?"


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Posted 24 March 2011 - 10:13

View PostRodTi, on 24 March 2011 - 09:56 , said:

I'm thinking of either trying my hand at home-made "lazer etching" (which in all likelihood would involve me covering the relevant parts with a thin metal layer (aluminium can etc) - with the cutouts in place - and then taking some very, very rough sandpaper to the exposed parts.... OR - going for a bit of airspray loving... PM'ed a Hubber to hear if he's happy with his paintwork sticking to titanium...

RodTi

Get a fine bead blast, and leave it at that. Sweet frame. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

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Posted 24 March 2011 - 10:19

RodTi, is that Michellin sticker the one on which he's shouldering a bike?
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Posted 24 March 2011 - 01:15

View PostTumbleweed, on 24 March 2011 - 10:19 , said:

RodTi, is that Michellin sticker the one on which he's shouldering a bike?

Hey TW - though about doing that.
Decided against it since he appears to be doffing his hat to the Cyclocross boys - and I'm not there... yet... :rolleyes:

The pic below was from a series of pics, if I recall correctly. The the one I saw - and the one you're presumably talking about - had the bike he's on over the shoulder. Googled it now - and it appears to have disappeared... <_<

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The sticker that I do have on, is similar to my avatar, with him running [oh the irony].
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Posted 25 March 2011 - 11:19

Here's the sticker I have on one of my SS bikes…Hog described it as a CX bike on 'roids, so it's kinda apt!

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See the bike here if you haven't before:

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Posted 25 March 2011 - 04:26

View PostTumbleweed, on 25 March 2011 - 11:19 , said:

Here's the sticker I have on one of my SS bikes…Hog described it as a CX bike on 'roids, so it's kinda apt!

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See the bike here if you haven't before:

Alice

Madness - that's one hippy Alice TW! One of my very first threads up on the Hub, was me looking for info on my old frame. A fellow Hubber - might even have been TitusTi(?) popped up a google images' pic, of a DBR frame with the Michelin man on the front... It kind of stuck with me from then on... When Tyerone started his decal sales - I figured 'why not' - I needed something to cover that huge headset space :) ...

Glad I never went with the cyclocross option - since you clearly had 1st, proper dibs! :thumbup:

Oh - and of course, me in lycra occasionally comes close to Mr. Michelin! :D

You still got your ride? I must be honest in that I've toyed with the idea myself... Especially with the cantilever brace at the back - reckon it wouldn't be too difficult, I'd need a rigid canti fork up front, and bob would be my uncle...
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Posted 25 March 2011 - 07:45

Here my stick...

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Posted 25 March 2011 - 07:48

View PostGTRacing, on 25 March 2011 - 07:45 , said:

Here my stick...

what frame is that?
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Posted 25 March 2011 - 07:50

And here...

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Posted 25 March 2011 - 07:56

Some SS...

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Posted 25 March 2011 - 07:57

View PostGTRacing, on 25 March 2011 - 07:45 , said:

Here my stick...

That Sir, is one fine stick!
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Posted 25 March 2011 - 08:00

@GTRacing: what was that first frame, looked similar to an alpina?
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Posted 25 March 2011 - 08:14

View PostEigerSA, on 25 March 2011 - 07:48 , said:

what frame is that?
Old Alpina.



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