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Look boots are hella rad

it has 32c tyres.

Makes sense now. I'm using 23c

Over the welds ofcourse, with some classy black cork cinelli tape.

Agreed. Cinelli gel cork ftw.

Depends what hub you use. Velosolos spacers are pretty much only good for loose ball hubs. Any kind of super light trials hub and you'd need a custom axle/spacers, not that it should be too difficult to get something made. My dad is making me something up for a sealed disc hub at the moment. Unfortunately due to budget constraints it's a bloody heavy one :(

^ I have some Halo ones you can have

http://www.cyclebasket.com/m9b87s456p2733/ACI_Black_Brass_Spoke_Nipples_-_Pack_of_100_

Cheers guys but I've gotta buy a pair of tyres now that I was hoping I wouldn't (more on that here) so I'm gonna have to stick with the spokes I've got and standard brass nipples :(

Since putting Vittorias on my Pompetamine, I’ve been loving the way their compound skids so I figured I’d try a Zaffiro on the back of the Dolan.

Really wanted gumwalls for this build but Vittoria don’t make em so I thought I’d have a go at making my own. I have done some ghetto gumwalls before with an emulsion tester pot that was kickin around. They worked out okay but just didn’t last long so I figured I’d give some acrylic a go.

Rubbed the tyre down with some meths to make sure I had a clean matte surface then mounted it on a spare wheel in a workmate.

Tried spinning the wheel and holding the brush on like I did last time but it didn’t work out so well with the acrylic.

In the end, I just cracked on and painted it freehand.

Left it to dry but when I let the air out and tried to take it off the rim, the paint just cracked and peeled.

Bit gutted it didn't work out but not entirely surprised. Might try mixing the paint with some kind of vulcanizing solution but I’ll probably just go for a pair of Paselas.

Also picked up this little beauty on eBay. Less than £8 posted.

Sharpie took care of a couple of tiny scuff marks and I painted the bolts black. Think it’s gonna look pretty good with a pair of chopped risers.

What's the rake on that fork? Trial fitted a wheel with my Alpinas today and clearance looks about the same.

http://retroshift.com/store/products/cxv/

Didn't realise you were goin for the linear pull version. Should work fine.

ACI db at 40p

DT Champ pg at 42p

Black is twice the price of silver, is it really that important for a beater?

Cheers tester. Plan is to fully stealth it a bit further down the line so thought I might save myself the bother of rebuilding the wheels twice.

Any reccomendations for black nipples too?

That looks tidy JB. Is that a 54?

Frickin love that Condor. Sooo rad

Er, isn't this HHSB, where all the usual bike porn rules get broken in the name of straight up radness?

Anyone reccomend a good source for cheap black spokes? I'm not even bothered if they're plain gauge, they're for a heavy old pair of beater wheels, just need to be cheap. Need 288mm and 292mm if it makes any difference.

MTB BB7.

I use a tektro lever (same as retroshift) with the road BB7 and it work really nicely. Don't understand why you'd want the MTB one?

Bike is coming along nicely by the way Dron. Can't wait to see it finished. I'd agree you're gonna have the best looking Pompetamine going.

Done well roboto, that tape looks tidy. Really tempted to go back to it on my Pompetamine now.

^ Full grip risers are awesome

Agreed although not keen on ODI longneck XLs on 31.8

25.4 with proper track grips ftw

Got a similar dilemma with my Pre Cursa build. Find SPDs so easy to use fixed and had nightmares with SPD SLs on my geared road bike but I think the SPDs would look to shit on a track bike.

Also Bonor is right to reccomend the Z510HX. They are super tough.

Pretty sure that's a reep in here but I'm also pretty sure it's the best paint job in the world ever!!!

Anyone heading down from London?
http://www.spinupinabrewery.com/

:(

Rad. Wish I could afford a spinergy for my Dolan build. Have you thought about taping the braking surface?

Like the reflective tape. Was goin to do something similar on my concor.

Awesome bike. I like the way the wheels are totally mismatched. Would prefer a zipp on the front if I was being picky though.