London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

cheers for that, just put my order in for a 60cm, hopefully should be here middle of the week (fingers crossed) been eyeing one up for a while! im actually quite fond of the paint, though we will see how long that lasts!

like the look of them where do you order from

tHIS IS BEAUTIFUL!

"gorgeous baby blue"

go for it!

Nelson cycles are distributed through cyclebasket online, exclusively i think. The track f+f represent really good value for money

cheers, ill look into them

Bam!

Just picked up a set of Shimano 600 hubs laced to oldskool Mavic reflex'es for the pink Rossin :)
Rims are not very worn, and the hubs look great.. spokes suck a bit since they appear to be cromed and not stainless (a bit of rust a few places)... It'll do for now :)

"Just picked up a set of Shimano 600 hubs laced to oldskool Mavic reflex'es for the pink Rossin :)
Rims are not very worn, and the hubs look great.. spokes suck a bit since they appear to be cromed and not stainless (a bit of rust a few places)... It'll do for now :)"

Sounds nice. Why not rebuild them with DTs? Or just wire-wool them and service the bearings.

What finish are the rims?

silver finish... Don't really wanna spend that much on the ol' frame.. :) I'm only going to be ridin' slow and long on it.. 200km, 400km, 1200? :)

I think if I remove the stickers on the rims and clean them up a bit they'll look just fine... :)

Since I'm going to be wanting a low low gearing I'm thinking about using a crankset with smaller rings, like a 32/42-set if thats even possible.. Last audax I did I was running on the 39 on my campy equipped Fondreist all the time
Alternatively I could run a MTB cassette, but that's a bit ugly.. :)

Whats the smallest ring that'll fit a 130BCD? :)

edit; 38 it seems... Think 110BCD is what I'll need..

@ Well, is it - Luv it. Er, what is it?

Im trying to upload a picture has anyone else had problems today ?

Cheers! It's an old dawes something-or-other... Quite nice lug work but it was pretty damn rusty when we got it. Had it blasted and painted by Mario and it's actually turned out quite a looker.

The customer wanted really short bullhorns for some reason, which I thought was a bit dodgy but they're actually quite comfy and have a bit of a rise to boot. They're Sakae Customs.

The cranks are no-name affairs but are quite good for basic cranks.

Got a couple of Eddy Merckx' on the go now... They should be stunning.

is it just me or there's really tooooo many bricks in that pic? i think i could really appreciate your work more if it was more of close-up shot... are any of such available for post? thanks

Absolutely...



And...

haha, as a photographer you make a very good bike mechanic.

;-)

Thanks?

Cheers!
Looks real good. As a coincidence, i was thinking of exactly the same color scheme for my missus bike for next year. Looks like it's gonna be it - blue frame - silver components - brown leather contact points.

still, ultra-chopped-down bullhorn looks weird

Agreed. I'd personally have left them as drops...

Stem still needs to be polished ; )

what levers are these?

Acor... They look similar to the Paul levers but cost twenty quid. Prefer them over crosstops.

Aren't they crosstop levers aswell?

they are indeed Mr. Johnson, they are indeed.

I prefer crosstops over crosstops too, in that case.

i just got a new frame for me. i dont know what frame that is, but i think`s it`s some raleigh`s frame. Frame weights 2.2kg and size is 52 - 54 cm. Original color is red. (does enybody knows what frame that is?)
im going to paint it black or red and make a Single-Speed conversion.

few bad quality pictures:

They really don't look anything like Pauls, and they are a piece of shit.

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eek.

lose the chain

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Lol, yeh, they aren't great by any means.

And I was referring to the cane creek crosstops earlier, which I have on my own bike and are also shit, by the way. Forgot it was a general term for those levers.

is that one of those visp frames?

[QUOTE=irish mick;1042856]is that one of those visp frames?

Well spotted

Fitz: Looks better in real life!

Yeah pics arent great.

Spoks look great on the back when skidding IMO.

Is that your 1st fixed build?

If you're only having one aero wheel, and it's a 'spok, it's gotta be on the rear IMO.

Its my third

I do it more for the look. I like the bike to look heavier at the rear.Plus you dont see rears that often most people go for the front spok

Picked this up today, Gazelle Champion Mondial Cyclocross. Not really sure if I'll keep it this way or make it SS.

But it just strikes me, you have what could be a really really nice stealth looking bike...
and then,wANk!!.. a pink 23c Gran on the rear (brakless) and yHELLO!! chain... why?
*sighs*

Looks cool when skidded but I disagree.

On a fixed drive chain you need a strong rear wheel, with a good hub. A plastic wheel with a glued in hub on the rear which itself is not of a very good quality wouldn't be my pick of a rear wheel. Spoks are better on the front for Performance, not that you'd get a spok if performance was anywhere on your check list....

Getting there, slowly.

I can understand what you mean but i love a little bit of jazz on a bike and i like to be different.I also dont ride this one breakless

Been a while since previous post here. Finally got the black cranks and ring I've been searching for, and moved to a skeleton Veloce front brake- pretty much there apart from a possible change of wheels in the future...

Nice bike red chain ring bolts are a good touch

Cheers Johnny. Credit to the previous owner for the red bolts... (thanks Gabes)

...but with a laidback sp and bended ss it looks like your bike has been crushed by some giants foot!! (God,that sounds dumb!)
(looks noice ; )

@ JapeS

Nice Katana, the rim anodising will rub off at the brake surface so if you wanna retain the stealth look and have a sweet stopping power consider ceramic open pro rims. Nice build.

That Katana looks sweet.

@Dylan, wots that?