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Cheapest one on ebay is £250 used, so I'd say £200 is a very good price.

^ it looks like it's got SS couplers on it. Wheels and colour scheme aside, I don't think it's ugly. It's certainly not pretty, but it wasn't designed to be.

Anyone tried using linseed oil? It's interesting because it dries into a gummy layer - people have been using it for centuries to protect metals and woods. If you heat up the frame with a hairdryer, then oil with hot oil, it should soak into the pores a bit better (like seasoning (oiling) a cast-iron pan).

Will have to do some testing soon.

Well I paint my own frames :P

Argos charge £125 for F+F, Bob Jackson charge £90, so... around that area I guess. It's certainly a much better job than any powdercoat. If you're based in London or can do cheap postage, it'd be a great alternative to having to pay for expensive couriers to take frames up to Bob Jackson.

Yeah, it's a bit thick. But it's really deep and glossy. You can see how smooth it is, too (bar the unfilled pinhole on the seattube).

What I'd like to know now is - how much does Paulo charge for that kinda job?

And my bike too.

I don't see the point of inflating so high. I used to commute daily on Schwalbe Blizzard 23cs at 70psi and never got a pinch flat in 18 months using them. I weigh about 80kg and had at least another 5kg luggage every day. Heavier riders should just use wider tyres - proven to have better rolling resistance and far more comfort.

^ last one is really nice.

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Not mine, but a collection of photos taking in the Soviet Union - some really nice ones in here
http://fishki.net/comment.php?id=89269

Campagnolo Record bottle opener it is. Kips, your dibs has been noted.

I've a Campagnolo Record high-flange front hub, but unfortunately the flange has a crack in it running from the outer edge into one of the windows. I'm alright with welding steel, but I've never welded aluminium and I've got no idea if it'd be safe or not - I asked a local engineering works (who have welded up a stem at the bolt hole before and it was fine) who said they'd happily do the work, but they couldn't be certain about the strength of the hub. Presumably it's forged construction - does anyone know if it could be successfully welded and used again?

If not, I'll just make it into a bottle opener or something.

Photos used with permission from citygent

Absolutely amazing patina on that frame.

Somebody's gotta get that, it's gorgeous. I'd have snapped it up if I hadn't just bought a new bike.

They both come up on ebay every now and then, but they're expensive.

What I did for my Pug seatpost was get a secondhand 22.2mm BMX seatpost and make a shim from 0.9mm brass sheet. Cost me less than a tenner in total, I think.

Some of my medium format stuff is now up on my pleasantly titled blog...

http://fuckyouandyourfuckingblog.tumblr.com/

I really like these.

He posted another frame in the other thread, looks much better. Keep it coming.

http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1806&pictureid=10103

another example of my work, more to come...

I would've put that up in the first place, it looks much better than the other one.

Could you put some close ups up? And how much do you charge?

^ doing it right.

Tasty food too I bet. South-east French cuisine is my favourite. I with I could crawl into a giant cassoulet and eat myself to death.

I really like the pinky chainring on this. How dya reckon it got like that?

These have been dib'sed by kushandorangejuice

Also, as 'noise weeny' doesn't alliterate in the same way that 'weight weeny' does, can I suggest changing the title to 'noise nancy' instead?

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Hi all. Ordered an S2C wheelset so I'm selling these:

Zenith sealed bearing double-fixed hubs (have enough thread on the reverse side to install a freewheel if you wanted to), Mavic Open Sport rims, silver everything. Comes with a lockring and decent wheelnuts. The only imperfection is in the last picture - a couple of little indentations where I used a steel tyre lever on the front rim - and a few little scratches here and there too, although I haven't done many miles on them. Also I removed the front rim sticker to see what it looked like.

These were fitted to my 1950 Claud Butler that takes a slightly narrower diameter axle than modern wheels - rather than filing the frame, I filed a bit of thread off of the front axle where it slots into the front dropouts. It doesn't affect it mechanically in any way and you won't see it when the wheel is installed, so it's not a problem (and actually saves you some work if your bike is of a similar vintage).

Running pretty straight and true, delivered to your very door for £70 (or £60 pickup from Coventry until Friday, or deepest darkest Essex after that). Usual dibs followed by PM.

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Ancient thread! You know what the most annoying noise on a bike is? A dodgy cotterpin on cottered cranks. It sounds like a tiny steam train - CLUNK clunk clunk clunk CLUNK clunk clunk clunk CLUNK clunk clunk clunk WOO WOOOOO.

Well it doesn't go woo woo, actually.

^ Actually it's still under debate whether the T Rex had feathers - earlier tyrannosaurs certainly did, but some archaeologists think that the T Rex was so enormous that it probably lost them at some point during its evolution.

We had deinonychuses too, which certainly should've been feathered, but they were annoyingly naked. The only one that had feathers was a tiny turkey-sized remote-controlled one, and that only had a few on its head.

I have Zenith hubs laced to Mavic Open Sport rims, silver everything, sealed bearings, hardly used, with lockring, £70 posted.

Shame you didn't ask a week ago as they were in my garage in Fulford before I moved out!