A day at the track drinking beers and perving at bikes
and an evening at polo drinking beers and perving at bikes.
So I might have rushed into this one a little quick.
I wanted something a bit lighter with bigger tyre clearance than the Dean. I also wanted it ratty and cheapish so I wouldnt have to worry about losing it.
So I bought this Paul Milnes Cyclocross frame on ebay without really checking out the size properly.
Its a great frame, nice and light with loads of tyre clearance but had steeper geo and a shorter top tube than I was expecting. I did a bad job of stripping it with nitromoores for that ratty look and built it up with a cheap 700c hybrid fork originally with a fat 54c tire on the front. It looked sweet but when I rode it I found the toe overlap far too bad and my position too upright. I didn’t want to put drops on and I hate toe overlap (especially when drunk!) so I changed to a longer stem and less swept back bars. The position was better but overlap still annoyed me. Then I realized I had some pace trials forks kicking around doing nothing, so I checked out the AtoC and they were the same as my hybrid forks! So lighter forks and a reverse brake mounts! Only dropping the front by 3-4cm by using a 26×1.95 and giving me 10+cm up front for my big feet.
So heres how it looks now.
cheap town bars and used shifter and free stem thanks to fitzrovia
parts bin seatpost and grips
my VO porteur rack
Magura Racelines off ebay cause Ive always wanted some and they’re cheap good brakes
My sram rival cranks and parts bin chain ring and gaurd
1×8 set up 11 to 34 super range!
Halo supadrive rear hub makes a great sound.
Fluro trials pedals and holdfast to match maguras
shitty dynamo front hub on free rim. not hooked up.
47c rear conti cityride
So basically its too small and rides like crap. The geo is too steep for a load in the front so its already been stripped down and parts re-appropriated.
Im still on the look out for old cannondale CX frame 56cm if anyone sees a cheap one.
Ah well you cant win em all.
More builds to come.
or plain procrastinating?
just to look like those guys
Super Normal is a small hippy noise festival in Ipsden Oxfordshire.
Watch the video from last year you’ll get the idea.
So me and Asha and Jamie and Bobby from Tokyofixed headed out there.
Me on the LHT, asha on her cannondale, jamie on his Kona and Bobby on his new Pugsley!
We rode about 90-100km? getting a bit lost and taking our time trying to stay off the main roads.
The pugsley was blowing minds the whole weekend. All I heard the whole way was chris king and “Oh my god look at those tyres”. (full bike check soon)
camping vibez
chillin vibes
food vibes
Coffee vibes
more chillin vibez.
So we saw some crazy bands and drank loads and ate great vegan food and free bread people and drank bloodymarys and lazed around and watched weird films and drank more and saw more crazy bands and drank espresso Martinis and it was awesome.
The guys headed off early to get the train back for work, but me and ash stayed till the end and had an extra day staying in a campsite in Henley before riding back to london.
Then………………………………… it was time to bowl.
Just been trolling through the
bike blog.
The twisted minds behind starfuckers have been busy.
Now dont you feel better about yourself?
and im drinkin doppelbock. darky ruby porters rock my world.
that is all.
woody
when was the last time we had a booze crooze boys?
anyone keen anymore for fabbbrricasting death machines?
