London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

There's just simply no reason to build a mountainbike with clearances that tight.
Putting some decent mud room in there would not have ruined the aesthetics of the bike, infact quite the opposite imo because as soon as i look at that bike i see tight clearances which will clog up real quick and so it looks like a bike that will not work.
Apart from the mudroom issue id also be worried about riding a rigid large wheeled bike offroad if there was that little room for the wheel to get out of true.
Give one of those wheels a bit of a knock on a fast descent and by the time you've reached the bottom of the hill you'll be halfway through a chainstay.

good evening miss!

I'm loving this. I got sent a whole load of images from the TDF and this was among them. The rest of them are here if you are interested; http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200...de_france.html[IMG]file:///Users/yardersmj/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot-2.png[/IMG]

www.bicycleunion.com - sell em straight from the site now, they have some cool new t's. loving the guns n roses one

http://allcitycycles.com/blog/view_e..._sheriff_hubs/

[IMG]file:///C:/Users/Tom/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg[/IMG][IMG]file:///C:/Users/Tom/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg[/IMG]quite a few nice bikes! impressed, although wtf is that purple number?!

Ooh my a new Sheriff-style hubs? that does look lovely, it better be reasonably priced and as good as those System EX hubs.

I thought Matt chester had stopped making frames now?
I'm guessing it's just an older one with a vicious cycles/jones fat fork on?
I always liked Matt chesters approach to fixed off road bikes.

Just checked his blog...seems he's still working...good to hear.

WOW

Paint porn from one of my favourite companies...

That's nice, not sure I'd be gone on the other ones though...

i'll build a full NJS track bike before I die...:)

another Vivalo-

If you build one, don't make it as HHSB as these.

hhsb ?

HipHopSlaveBike. Very 2008 darling.

carbon west german pursuit bikes, seoul 1988 games.

You must be very slow; hover over it and it tells you.

Haven't seen that pic for, ooh, a fortnight.
http://www.londonfgss.com/post886621-19139.html

That ring isn't NJS and I doubt the hubs, chain, seatpost and tyres are either

*pukes on your Ferrari*

east-german!!!

Ahem. East German. Basic flag recognition fail.
East (notice the communist-type thing in the middle):

West (sans reference to communism):

damn. too late.

nutsacks.

If any then it is socialism type. Socialism was the step to made before communism.

The bars, toe clips and seat post definitely aren't. I'm not sure what the cranks are, but they don't appear to be 75s, Dura Ace or Superbes, so they might not be NJS. The wheels look like they might be built 3x, which means the wheels aren't NJS (it has to be 4x). White double straps strike me as probably not being NJS.

Finally, and most importantly, Vivalo aren't NJS. When they had their status withdrawn it applied retroactively.

Basically, the NJS parts of this bike are the headset, bottom bracket and stem. Perhaps the pedals too. Oh, and if it's a Dura-Ace lockring that will be NJS.

Anyway, why waste your time building up a bike as NJS? There is no point in doing it, other than for the sake of it.

I was suppose to write "That ring isn't NJS ..."

Plus it looks wank

What bars are those?

yeah, I'm interested in those as well

on one midge bars I think

They might actually be WTB dirt drop bars...difficult to tell from that angle but the top straight section doesn't look quite wide enough for midges...and also Matt Chester used WTB bars all the time before the midges were available.
Of course they could be midges still....like i say, hard to tell from that angle.

yeah i know. so what? i still think it's hot! i think the colours match well. of course, my build will be fully NJS!

nice attitude you got there... i like all things Japanese, plus the rarity probably helps increase it's appeal, plus i think they look sexy as hell.. it looks like everything i look for in a track bike.

Reynold's 953... mmmm!

Your face looks wank!

HA! and to think all this time i assumed it stood for Hardcore Hipster Son of a Bitch....I think i like mine better....

It seems like you don't know that much about what criteria a bike needs to fulfill to be "full NJS". I'd say that my track bike is about 80% NJS and that's as far as I'd ever take it.

I'm not going to run 80"+, brakeless, with tubs on the road. Certainly not in the winter, with my unsealed, non-cartridge bearing hubs/headset/bottom bracket. And I'm sure as hell not going to give up the security of clipless pedals on the track, only maintain my bike with the NJS tool kits (they exist), etc, just to prove a point.

Oh, and as for liking the colours, you can forget that for a start. If it isn't silver, it isn't NJS (with the exception of Dura-Ace lockrings, which are black).

"I'll build a full NJS track bike before I die .."

^ Bloody nice.

yeah. repost, but worth it.

I plan to build a full UCI track bicycle;

whats up with the non-drive side foto fail on the last two bikes man? they're bloody nice, what a shame.

Look from the other side of your monitor?

You forgot dura ace sprockets as well all other lockrings and sprockets, oh and grand mighty track cranks are gold and njs, so technically you are not 100% correct

yum

That Kalavinka is utterly gorgeous. Want!

I suppose I deserved that for over simplifying it.

p.s. You forgot chains too. I think that there is only one silver NJS chain, the rest are black.