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Good effort, Dunwich

That'll be the lockring tool ;P

Love the graphic though!

hardhat wow. pretty cool to see it all stripped apart as well. great photos too. i'd love to completely pull apart a bike, but i fear once i did it i'd be stuck not knowing how to get all the pieces back together again. are there any special tools you need, or can you just use bog standard wrenches, allen keys and the like?

For a bike like this, not much. To totally strip a road bike down the frame for painting you generally need a crank tool (you can't get a spanner in there!) and crank puller (chances are a little rust and a lot of time will have siezed then on), lockring tool and/or BB tool for the bottom brackets, and if you're painting the fork, a crown race remover and installer. Everything else is wrench and allen key friendly. You'd need a pretty large wrench for the headset though - I use an old one I found in my late grandad's toolbox with "King Dick" written on it!

Thanks for all your help guys. It's not looking optimistic.

pip If you do go this route, don't get the unicrown tange fork, get the crowned one. The unicrown one is like a unibrow - it makes you feel weird and people laugh at you :)

I currently have chromed and crowned Tange forks, but I'm not so hot on chrome forks from a purely aesthetic point of view. On an 80s Colnago racer, yes, but on my fixie I want a complete paint job. I'm now pretty much settled on selling my frame and getting a Bob Jackson. Then it's an improvement all round. If I were to get some new Soma/Jackson/Witcomb forks my Peugoet track frame would probably feel pretty jealous ;)

Simon Yes the pink splatter will be first thing to go. Some plain black cork would suit I think.

White!

So you're pretty much riding my dream bike now, though I'm after one of the 80s ones picture above. Congratulations on a great deal!

1 inch threaded with short rake. Need over 21cm steerer and drilled for a brake, allen key fitting. Looking for £50 or below really.

Does anyone have any suggestions where I might be able to get some simple lugged steel forks? I have some chrome ones at the moment but I'm getting my frame resprayed soon and I'd love to have matching forks.

I wear jeans on my bike because everyone on the planet and his sister wear jeans. I roll them, up because I don't want to get them in the drive train and do the whole "braking with my face" thing when I go over the bars.

It's all like Soldiers getting pissed of at Hikers because they wear boots too.

pip This is a pretty decent piece of 'road-kill'

I didn't realise you were brob, tallsam. I was going to post something very similar here after seeing your post on Yayhooray this morning, and remembering eek's classic one. Good to see you here too.

fatboyralph8

Looks like your frame is bleeding!

What's the fastest way to a woman's heart?

Chuck Norris' fist

Try powergrips:

Looking for some simple forks, drilled, with 21cm or more of steerer. Will put up moneys for 'em.

There is a part of my brain for thinking about feet?

They're way too nice to be converted! The lugs on that green condor are neat.

My mistake... I was thinking of Ambrosio ones

The formula ones come with a short axle that can't be spaced up to 130, so you'll need to change to a longer one. IRO get em with a longer axle in though.

Condor just put in an order today... which I missed. So now if I want a right shoulder strap I have to order from Chrome. Pain in the arse being left handed.

Alex [quote]SMEEAR
are you getting a labyrinth sleeve?

Dunno what a labyrinth sleeve is. [/quote]
The helping hands!

Adjusting brake shoes is easy as sunday morning. Why are you moving the rear wheel, I'm not sure I understand?

Round where I live any likely thief would think my bike is shit because I clearly couldn't afford any gears, or two brakes.

Thank you :)

That bike looks like it's always been second hand, it skipped the whole being "new" thang.

Abner Jay ftw

dogsballs never, always fixed. and now with the double fixed ambrosio hubs, i've got not choice.

You can thread a freewheel onto that hub... but yeah, better not to ;)