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If you don't want to repaint right away I'd suggest making it a bit busier, if that make sense. Add another colour, minimize the white, kind of thing.

That’s close to my first thought, I was thinking gold edging to all the ones already on there and perhaps smaller gold triangles inside the existing ones. However To finish it I’d need to strip it down anyhow.

The primer coat only took about two hours to do, and I’d like to touch it up in a few places.

I’m thinking I’ll redo it next week, and do a first layer of blue triangles then an overlapping layer of black triangles. Smaller, more uniform, and more of them. Experiment on the fork first as I’ve yet to touch it.

The hanger, Marty’s Mustache was a raffle prize from one of the Geekhouse parties. Limited edition of a dozen if IRC.

I’m pretty sure it was this year:

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Whelp, like 80% there. I need to get some canti pull Paul levers, a touring canti for the rear (I’m having hella heel strike). And thinking about a MUSA wheelset, Paul’s to Velocities perhaps?

The 110mm front wheel is also going to limit dynamo hub choices too.

Both SP and Son make 110 dynamos.

great job on the geekhouse. Sure Marty would love it.

He’s seen a few pictures. Hopefully when this Covid shit clears up we will get a little MTBing in. I’ve been threatening him that he needs to help me with my pump track.

ew

Ha, not together.

hee hee (I'm drunk)

I was when I was using the paint markers, and it was 2 am...

Yesterday a LOT of Prosecco and whiskey was consumed.

That turned out very nice!

Thanks, I hate it :)

what Thomson is that? never seen a triple bolt faceplate b4.

7/8th or 22.2 BMX stem. It’s a bit overbuilt, but then I don’t need a shim.

Please put this on a plane to London. kthx

Fingers crossed we will be visiting in September.

You did that yourself? Wow! In a good way.

It looks good from about 10’ away, less then that and it starts really bothering me. I learned a bit doing it and may put another coat of primer down and re try it with smaller more consistent triangles.

I thought messy varying triangles would look cool. Shrug

Well I don’t love my attempt at “art”...

That’s pretty clever.
Paul Comp made similar track ends for a while, Bob Jackson made frames with them.

Also more expensive than some frames or wheels.

And they just added a $8 Covid surcharge for each tyre ordered thru whole sale accounts. Which they don’t expect us to pass along to customers

These were originally made by Aaron of 44arn fame for Geekhouse. Marty didn’t have any left, Aaron didn’t have left, but a little bird had a secret stash in his tool box. I think they were seconds, needed to have the treads retapped, bolts straightened and have some machining remnants removed.

I might paint them black with some Testors model paint.

Heard it as tradition if you buy the headset used

Or when you move the headset from one bike to another

This may be a bit niche.

Got this far.

probably have gone for a secondhand set of Paul Racers, but that proprietary post thing is nonsense

Pretty much all brazed on centerpulls are proprietary in both the mount and spacing. Even mafac is proprietary in its spacing for different brakes ie raids vs racer vs competition etc.

I sprayed some paint into a bag and took a big whiff to make sure it wasn’t gonna kill me, I’m doing it right?

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue...

Getting started. Damn, I haven’t spray painted a bike in almost two decades.

This showed up on my doorstep the other day.

It’s the Beardman that I got in trade when I got the Geekhouse and Spooky. Geekhouse updates coming soon.