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I believe it is frowned upon to start a topic about your own bike so you may want to prepare for some grief but at least you're having fun which is more than some of the more pedantic and synical people on here can say. They would have found something to bust your balls about one way or another anyway.
Speaking of balls, that's not you in the white shorts is it?

Build it up SS with whatever you have laying around so you can at least ride it while being on the lookout for a good deal on a groupset. If you're lucky you'll change your mind and decide to keep it SS, upgrade only one or two parts and be done with it and keep some cash in your pocket. Just don't burn your bridges by taking an angle grinder to it.

If you're not in London don't bother, all thieves in the world live in London and they never leave.

I'm sorry but this is kind of awesome

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http://cgi.ebay.de/1-AEROSPOKE-28-VORDERRADFRONT-WHEEL-CHROM-MSW-NONMSW-/170644174001?pt=Sport_Radsport_Fahrradteile&var=&hash=item6d6fe25a44

Are you saying it's real?

I don't know, it's an easy background to change a wheel on (easy to hide the old one) and the terrible photo quality conceals any clues and inconsistencies. At the same time it would be a lot of unnecessary effort to replicate the fluro reflections on the roller door and to match the quality of the donor image of the trispoke to the quality of the bike pic. It's all very much possible of course, but the picture being real is a more plausible possibility imo.

Not too sure about that, are the reflections on the roller door also chopped?

Getting a used leather saddle that would otherwise be binned is probably better for the environment than replacing it with a new one with all the strain that puts on the environment.
I understand if you don't want a cow to die for your ass comfort, but it kind of all equals out if somewhere else a cow chokes on the exhaust fumes of the plastic factory that makes your new saddle.

:o why?

What have you learned on this forum so far?

• visible welds are anti and a sign of poor quality.
  
• old + Italian = porn, always.
  
• matching colours = anti, non-matching colours = anti too.
  
• if it's not expensive it's anti.
  
  

...more?

Pff lame first post for page 999, let me fix that.

Similar to brake horsepower and wheel horsepower innit.

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on a build like that they are.

True, although they might be the most sensible option for these bars. I mean if you're going to have these bars, having grips that aren't ourys won't save the bike.

Not saying the Tiemeyer isn't anti (because it is) but I'm trying to decide how much it would take to turn it into a nice or at least acceptable bike. Lose the wheel stickers and red bits of tape and trade the bars for regular track drops (although functional, sphinx's are always fugly). 2 to 3 modifications and I'd ride it. I even sort of like the gold bits.

• the ourys and the white tyres...
  
  

So now ourys are anti too?? That's bollocks.

Delta brakes are never going to work peroid.

No, it doesn't. 650 at both ends on a grown-up's bike always looks wank, super steep seat tube tri-bikes always look wank. It actually looks better as a conversion, although still thoroughly warrants inclusion here.

The angle of the picture of the conversion kind of conceals the difference in seattube and headtube angles, which makes the geo look a tiny bit less wonky. Otherwise I think the build is quite shocking and heaps more ugly than the tt/tri bike. The tiny gear, random mishmash of parts and especially the attempt at colour coding that clashes all over the place makes it truly repulsive.

I have a 55cm Vitus 992 frameset collecting dust in the attic, pm if interested.

are they 650's on that kein?

Yes. It's horrible, it truly does get worse the more you look at it.

Ah the first time I read that I took it you built it up for her. If you did, her being too lazy to take some pics wouldn't be very promising for the amount she will be riding it ;)

is that a fairing for your arse? ^^^

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That bat bike is pretty cool btw.

I don't get the joke.

It looks like they bent the seat tube on the edge of their workbench, don't they have a pipe bender? Still I kind of like it in a shameless hipsterbike kind of way

Hmm thanks. To get the bike running I installed a straight flat bar because that's what I had, but for XC riding I want them to be a bit higher. So I will need either a riser bar or a higher stem if I decide to go with the Fleegle. I like the look of the Fleegle but a tall stem would probably ruin it.. A pair of risers bay be the most sensible solution.