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Selle Italia Flow SLR saddle - taken off other commuter bike, only 180g!
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6' 1 3/4", would you like my inseam as well, haha
I actually really want to keep this...hmm, maybe I could just ration for a few months... -
Gigantex 50mm deep carbon tubular 700C rim/Circus Monkey 24h rear track hub/Sapim bladed spokes - rim off ebay as above, rear hub new from Taiwan and wheel re-built by Brick Lane Bikes
Dicta 18t sprocket/BLB Beefy lock ring - ebay and BLB
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Lovingly built up during Summer 2016, this is a nippy fixed gear bike constructed around a high-end steel keirin track bike made by Hiroshi Takahira.
Currently set up at about maximum height for myself, the bike could fit anyone from 5'8" - 6'2".
The front fork is undrilled, comes with clamp-on front brake system attached. Current gear ratio 48/17.
Some small losses to paintwork, few scratches, nothing spectacular, and a typical small dent to one side of top tube from the ol' velodrome in Japan....
Weighs approx. 8.8kg in total.
Collection preferred, but would consider posting. Thought I would offer it here first as it would be nice to have it riding round London. Selling to raise money for a build that, much like the Garden Bridge, is way over budget and a massive folly...
Components:
Vogue 55.5cm semi-compact lugged steel track frame, 2003, matching track fork (undrilled)
Hatta R9400 bottom bracket
Hatta Swan Super Deluxe head set
Sugino Mighty Competition 165mm cranks w/ Sugino 48t chain ring
KMC Z510 1/2 x 1/8" single speed chain
Mavic Open pro 32 spoke rims 700c, Ambrosio Zenith front hub/flip-flop rear [hand built in Manchester], On-One 1/8th" 17t sprocket, Dura-ace lockring, Dura-ace track bolts
Veloflex Master 23 clincher tires
Unbranded chain tugs
Selle Italia Turbo 1980 Saddle
Nitto Crystal Fellow S65 seat post, 26.8 x 300mm
Nitto B250AA riser handlebars, 480 x 25.4mm
Skyway Flange BMX handlebar grips
Nitto Technomic quill stem 70mm
MKS Sylvan track pedals, MKS large toe clips, Zefal Christophe leather toe straps
Dia-Compe clamp-on front caliper brake system, Dia-Compe Dirt Harry right-hand lever, Dia-compe BRS cable housing
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3.7kg, haha, I'm going to struggle aren't I...
Anyway, why is 6.8kg the legal minimum weight of competition bikes, was this just an arbitrary choice or is it based on something?
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Gigantex 50mm carbon tubular 700C rim/Novatec 20h road front hub with QR/Sapim CX bladed spokes/Continental Competition 22mm tub - ebay, built up by Harry Rowland in Ramsgate, Kent. I think I paid a tad too much for these :(. I'll probably go up a tire size at the end.
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SRAM Red front caliper brake - ebay, super lightweight, fitted with carbon friendly blocks
(Spectra) Tec Peritus carbon seat post, 31.6mm x 400mm - super cheap off ebay, seems to be old thing when the manufacturers Spectra and Tec were one company? Will cut this down at the bottom to save a bit of weight later possibly.
Keirin seat post clamp, 34.9mm - new
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Interested in ominums, PM'd
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Pfff, that looks fantastic, although maybe I could shave some grams off along with my sperm count with one of these:
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And now for something completely different from my previous build, a classy East London Geisha, here's to starting a weight-conscious sporty fixed gear for North London's slightly hillier terrain... heaps of carbon, total weight 7kg or less, on a budget...
Cinelli Vigorelli 57cm frameset, between 2008-2011, Columbus aluminium tubing, matching aluminium & carbon composite forks - off LFGSS forum, scratched and dinged but looks sound.
FSA Orbit headset - came with frame, needed to buy another cartridge bearing though.
Shimano PRO PLT carbon composite stem, 100mm - off ebay, nice seller chap, he has a Colnago C60 and rides around in Pennines!
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Available?
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Hey Skully, thanks for your nice compliments on my steed! (the black Vogue with gum wall wheels and riser bars)
It was a good evening!
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Update: whacked on a Dia-Compe clamp-on front brake and Dia-Compe Dirt Harry right-hand lever (to make my eight-mile commute less hardcore)
Probs be on it on next Critical Mass if nice weather, last one I took my crappy 1970s Carlton 10-speed runaround cos it was forecast rain, if you see me say hello!
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Bugger, my wet weather bike taken from a hallway in E3, went down to Brick Lane at about 11 but couldn't see it around in market, keep eyes peeled! FFS, It's not worth anything!
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1970s Saracen road frame conversion, this goes everywhere
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Done!
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Ooo, nearly there! I'm pretty sure everyone reading this is as excited as I am...
Selle Italia Turbo 1980 Saddle - new
Nitto Crystal Fellow S65 seat post, 26.8 x 300mm - new
Nitto B250AA riser handlebars, 480 x 25.4mm - new
Skyway Flange BMX handlebar grips - new, squeezed these bastards on with hairspray
Nitto Technomic quill stem 70mm - ebay, this might be cut down, normally the Technomic stem is way longer?
MKS Sylvan track pedals, MKS large toe clips, Christophe leather toe straps - ebay
I had been led to believe that no sooner had I naively posted a picture of a shiny new Nitto seat post I would be set upon by a pack of grizzled 1990s fixed-gear riders who would pull my piddling little world-view to shreds….very disappointed.
Just need to grease all the bearings, chuck it all together and take it out for a spin! (and carefully lock it in a clear, direct view of the place I'm sitting in any pub/restaurant forevermore)
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Back on forum for same price as I bought them for - £25 - look rad but I need a sweep for comfort, but I'm sure there are plenty of suitors out there for them...
Good condition, some marks, visible in picture on right hand side.
Can meet in Central or East London to hand 'em over.
SOLD
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Sugino Mighty Competition 165mm cranks and Sugino 48t chain ring - off ebay, even has original Sugino chainring bolts but they are too long so will have to be replaced :(
Mavic Open pro 32 spoke rims 700c, Ambrosio front hub/flip-flop rear, On-One 1/8th" 17t sprocket, Dura-ace lockring, Dura-ace track bolts - complete, super cheap off ebay, put together originally by Dave Hinde according to label. Nice guys at Isambards Cycles on Bethnal Green road replaced crunkly bearing and trued them for very little money.
Veloflex Master 23 clincher tires - these smelt nice when I opened them.
I'm assuming no one has ever heard of Vogue frame builders? Ideally I want someone to tell me they are hand built over 24 months by a tenth-generation descendent of an important Samurai family, possibly a blind 70 year-old who works in a pitch-black bike shop using only his sense of taste?
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I have always loved Japanese track bike culture. Ever since I watched a 20min documentary on Youtube a few weeks ago I have been immersed in the noble pursuit of the Keirin. Whether it's the humble toiling craftsmen carefully brazing together the sleak, steel bicycle frames, or the bristling racers assembled at the starting line, their muscular legs twitching in their tight lycra shorts, or even the blank-faced man caning it round the inside lane on his moped, all the participants of the Nihon Jitensha Shinkōkai are duty-bound to excellence. It is in this spirit that I begin the build of the decade...the one that the readers of this esteemed forum have always been waiting for...a never before witnessed majestic congress of components...yes...a dinged second-hand NJS frame whacked onto some OK wheels, with a bunch of expensive nitto parts!
Vogue 55.5cm semi-compact track frame, 2003, serial number 99.60P238, matching track fork - Off ebay, but presumably imported from NJS Export originally given attached components below, has anyone got anymore info on the Vogue frame builders?
Hatta R9400 bottom bracket
Hatta Swan Super Deluxe head set
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SRAM Omnium 165mm crankset - on very decent sale price at BicycleHero...might still be on...