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it must be coated somehow, but it looks not to have been keyed beforhand. it must be bound to flake of with the first chips.
it also seemed way thinner than any powdercoat I've seen.

I just bagged me some rims. how about the rest of the stuff?

I just saw the 2013 kona unit in a shop. from photos I thought it were painted grey. It's not. It looks like raw steel. anyone know how they did that, asuming it's treated somehow to prevent corrosion.
It's going to be interesting to see how it holds up.

How come the front brake isn't wired up?

it is. cable is running through the steerer, the bend where it comes out looks a bit sharp though.

have you considered stainless instead? would make sense in your case as you should get a stiffer frame for a given weight.
plus cheaper and possible to fillet braze...

http://www.cnc-bike.de/product_info.php?cPath=777_27_1130&products_id=5351

light bracket conversion looks neat too.

I just checked and a 300mm seat post should suffice.

ok, thanks

Also, I've just had my Pomp powder coated and will be getting some more decals made up soon. I have a mate that does them for me. Going for this logo but with a Yorkshire rose instead of the burst/splat thing. Might be able to get a couple of extra sets done if you and dron are interested?

Got a set of Blumels and some Randonneur Hypers to go on the bike tomorrow so might have to get a pic in here soon.

count me in on the decals! great idea with the rose.
what is blumels?

I'm going with panels. Probably with some thinner coloured bands at the ends of the panels.

great minds... I've been looking at classic suzuki livery http://www.motorsportretro.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/bikes_xr14jpg.jpg

http://www.lfgss.com/thread95621.html

Not much to post so far so, but parts have started to show up, though some of the pricier items will need to wait until I have the cash or come across deals.

So far it's going to be:

• XL Pompetamine - White, but I don't like the gold logos. They're under the clear and I don't want to pay for a blast/powder so have a few ideas of ways to address the issue. Also have one of the sweet metal headtube badges for it.
  

what do you have in mind for the decals? I have the same isue. Thinking about either having some stickers made to cover them or simply paint panels over them.

Yes.
If your bike is relatively current. i.e. 1 1/8 headtube.
it's 45mm rake, quite standard road fork geometry. it will be a bit longer and have more clearance tho.

a pompetamine fork is 30 pounds. and a bit shorter than most cx forks.

pompetamine, with a real fork? that's my take on more or less the same concept.

thanks, but I'm not realy a fan of FSA. Afraid the stem will be a tad too long too.

hey great, I'll remove that from the list then.
cheers.

I need some stuff for a project going on over the next couple of months.
I'm in no hurry, but I'd like to get some good deals on nice things so I thought I'd might as well just make the advert now.

1: Ritchey Classic stem 90mm, OS
2: --
3: Headset 1 1/8, silver, CK, Hope, similar.
4: --
5: --
6: --
7: --
8: 30mm seat clamp. nice, light, carbon or silver coloured, kcnc, tune, hope, thomson, salsa, similar

I live in Copenhagen so will need the items to be shipped.
Thanks

I'm sure, you have checked, but to me it looks like it's going to be tight between down tube and fork shoulders when front wheel is turned all the way over.

Although I do have a couple pairs of CX tyres in the parts bin.

I think that's all the excuse you need.

cheers. thanks for the link. good luck with the sale.

would you bother to send the nomads? would that even be worthwhile?

This photo shows the clearance better:

gotta love posting photos of your bike.

Anyone have a genius 5 step plan for producing a ghetto front rack built around a wine crate / fruit box?

Street machine isn't going to happen this year by look of it, so instead found a (free) decent quality 90s marin with 700c's on it that'll be the perfect faux porteur bike. However the budget is literally zero. I might spring £8 on a chain and some fresh brake blocks, but thats it, everything else must be made, found or be free!
Front rack because they look cool (almost literally no other reason), and panniers/ rear rack gets in way of my feet, look aweful when wet and nasty as the bike will be living outside etc.

Forks have front rack mounts & mudguard mounts either side of dropout so its at least designed for it.

you might be able to adapt a cheap/found steel rear rack to fit on the front and mount the crate on that.

I think spotter did that recently.
he did, but not very ghetto-y.