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I'd say it's more suited to guerilla warfare.
but back to bikes, I find them much less depressing!
On paint at the moment, here's the fork all filed and sanded and ready for paint.
Good or bad paint really makes or breaks a bike, as a style element.
With a frame, you need to know how to do things, but you know what needs to be done,you also know that there aren't that many ways of doing it right.
with paint on the other hand...
you really only have the limits that you pose yourself, even with a 3 colour paintjob with the same 3 colours you can have tens of completely different frames.
if not hundreds.
this was the case for this bike, the owner is a restaurant chef (and owner), so he wants to use the same colours of his business.
cream, burgundy and black.
there's a lot of ways those can be put together, from modern, to classic, to strange, to plain bonkers.
once that's sorted, it's off to paint, then back here for inspection, a photoshoot, and a happy customer.
Re:
I'm very interested in the Aero forks....
On my previous Max they were straight, (albeit angled at the crown) & I do think the curved tines are more pleasing to the eye, (Mine at least) & probably make a difference to the general handling of the machine. Do they come straight & you apply the bend, or....? Me an amateur here remember: )
When you build my Max I want forks as above, or else carbon. My question is, can the carbon be satisfactorily painted to match the frame?
I'm presuming here that the steel frame would be stoved??
I'm very interested in the Aero forks....
On my previous Max they were straight, (albeit angled at the crown) & I do think the curved tines are more pleasing to the eye, (Mine at least) & probably make a difference to the general handling of the machine. Do they come straight & you apply the bend, or....? Me an amateur here remember: )
When you build my Max I want forks as above, or else carbon. My question is, can the carbon be satisfactorily painted to match the frame?
I'm presuming here that the steel frame would be stoved??
I've got a very nice max based surprise coming not so soon. complete with full aero max forks.
and aero steerer, but it's a job for long dark winter days.
so it'll probably be ready this time next year. Full on show bike, so I want everything to be perfect.
It's summer here, at least some days are, and everyone wants their bike, so I have to concentrate on getting those orders out the door.
Today's max blades are straight, and you're supposed to use a 7deg angled crown, but as I have a big hydro bikemachinery fork bender, well, I can bend them, as long as it's not a huge rake. I still have a few old crowns, for the curved blades.
With carbon there's a 450g difference, that's 1 lb, in real money, it's quite a bit, but it all depends on what you want.
steel will last a lifetime, carbon has to be changed, but everyones' needs are different, and that makes my job more interesting.
Agree on curved, but I'm sending a lot more (2:1 ratio) frames out with the FEL columbus fork (straight) instead of the grammy columbus fork (curved).
personally I prefer curves... (!)
carbon forks can be painted to match the frame perfectly.
and aero steerer, but it's a job for long dark winter days.
so it'll probably be ready this time next year. Full on show bike, so I want everything to be perfect.
It's summer here, at least some days are, and everyone wants their bike, so I have to concentrate on getting those orders out the door.
Today's max blades are straight, and you're supposed to use a 7deg angled crown, but as I have a big hydro bikemachinery fork bender, well, I can bend them, as long as it's not a huge rake. I still have a few old crowns, for the curved blades.
With carbon there's a 450g difference, that's 1 lb, in real money, it's quite a bit, but it all depends on what you want.
steel will last a lifetime, carbon has to be changed, but everyones' needs are different, and that makes my job more interesting.
Agree on curved, but I'm sending a lot more (2:1 ratio) frames out with the FEL columbus fork (straight) instead of the grammy columbus fork (curved).
personally I prefer curves... (!)
carbon forks can be painted to match the frame perfectly.
Well, I'm old fashioned & I prefer curved forks. (also: ) Looks like a 'straight' crown on the above the gentle curve (35mm rake?) looks so much nicer than straight blades to me. (tines.. I was gardening with a fork when I said tines; )
I'm not a weight weenie either, so lugs are my preference, & wheels with a good few more than 16 spokes on the front, aero or not....
At 16stone+ (Circa 100kg in foreign money?) I could lose the weight of the whole bike if I stay off pasta & vino for month or two; ) I want strength, durability & a style that I like, at my ripe, old age.... That's what custom bikes are, ain't it??
'Popularity' is not a benchmark for me. If 7 million people watch Eastenders regularly that is a very good reason to avoid it, in my mind; ) (They got nothing better to do?)
It's all down to taste in the end, I guess. I like the fork shape on the blue & green machine above, but 'blue & green are never seen' happily in my eyes. Too close to each other for me. For a bike builder colour just adds to the complications I'm sure.... I do not envy you in that respect.
Keeping the customer satisfied must be most frustrating, sometimes...
But, I await your forthcoming Max with some considerable interest: )
Max frames are future classics I say. They will be around long after carbon has broken/dissolved/finished/forgotten I believe.
Keep up the good work: )
I'm not a weight weenie either, so lugs are my preference, & wheels with a good few more than 16 spokes on the front, aero or not....
At 16stone+ (Circa 100kg in foreign money?) I could lose the weight of the whole bike if I stay off pasta & vino for month or two; ) I want strength, durability & a style that I like, at my ripe, old age.... That's what custom bikes are, ain't it??
'Popularity' is not a benchmark for me. If 7 million people watch Eastenders regularly that is a very good reason to avoid it, in my mind; ) (They got nothing better to do?)
It's all down to taste in the end, I guess. I like the fork shape on the blue & green machine above, but 'blue & green are never seen' happily in my eyes. Too close to each other for me. For a bike builder colour just adds to the complications I'm sure.... I do not envy you in that respect.
Keeping the customer satisfied must be most frustrating, sometimes...
But, I await your forthcoming Max with some considerable interest: )
Max frames are future classics I say. They will be around long after carbon has broken/dissolved/finished/forgotten I believe.
Keep up the good work: )
Since you ask about my paint preferences etc. here's an 'oldie but goldie' machine. Finished by me temporarily, with 'saver' paint.
Unknown maker but quite unusual, if only for the modern, upright frame angles.
This is 1934 onwards. Quite likely to be post 1945, but I cannot 'nail' its precise birthday just now. Nor the maker. Serial number is on the LH side dropout. Quite unusual!
A lovely, very unusual machine for its age.
Check the head-clip, finned mudguard eyes, off-set pump pegs (behind seat-tube..) & upright, modern angles. Round, chunky, track forks with twin plate fork crown, Cyclo Universal rear ends, (one rear position for fixed, front position for Cyclo derailler probably. Finely filed lugs, it displays all the signs of a quality machine of its era.
I spent much time researching this, but no definite answers yet. (I'm a member of the http://www.v-cc.org.uk/, but no members know anything either!!)
So it's still just a cool unknown right now.
I decided to build it up with various available components from my spares bin, painted it in my own way, & made/printed my own decals to suit temporarily.
Enigma? Yes it is.
The Gamine 'model name' is an anagram of Enigma. Which means, in French, in one interpretation at least, 'Street Arab'!! That sounds right to me.
Serendipity: )?
[url=http://s1212.photobucket.com/u...ms/cc459/bicyclz/YellowEnOUtside009.jpg[/img]
A lovely old machine in other words, but still currently an Enigma.
Any ideas anybody?
Unknown maker but quite unusual, if only for the modern, upright frame angles.
This is 1934 onwards. Quite likely to be post 1945, but I cannot 'nail' its precise birthday just now. Nor the maker. Serial number is on the LH side dropout. Quite unusual!
A lovely, very unusual machine for its age.
Check the head-clip, finned mudguard eyes, off-set pump pegs (behind seat-tube..) & upright, modern angles. Round, chunky, track forks with twin plate fork crown, Cyclo Universal rear ends, (one rear position for fixed, front position for Cyclo derailler probably. Finely filed lugs, it displays all the signs of a quality machine of its era.
I spent much time researching this, but no definite answers yet. (I'm a member of the http://www.v-cc.org.uk/, but no members know anything either!!)
So it's still just a cool unknown right now.
I decided to build it up with various available components from my spares bin, painted it in my own way, & made/printed my own decals to suit temporarily.
Enigma? Yes it is.
The Gamine 'model name' is an anagram of Enigma. Which means, in French, in one interpretation at least, 'Street Arab'!! That sounds right to me.
Serendipity: )?
[url=http://s1212.photobucket.com/u...ms/cc459/bicyclz/YellowEnOUtside009.jpg[/img]
A lovely old machine in other words, but still currently an Enigma.
Any ideas anybody?
The rear drop-outs are Cyclo Universals, which appear in contemporary Cyclo catalogues from 1934 on.
(If you a member of the V-CC (http://www.v-cc.org.uk/) they have thousands of catalogues available online for members.)
Still listed in 1953 catalogues. So they not rare, but do give an indication/time bracket for the age of the frame.
It's a great single speed: )
And, I have more similar.....
(If you a member of the V-CC (http://www.v-cc.org.uk/) they have thousands of catalogues available online for members.)
Still listed in 1953 catalogues. So they not rare, but do give an indication/time bracket for the age of the frame.
It's a great single speed: )
And, I have more similar.....
This is the Max I've just finished.
It's a fixed gear frame, there's a road one in the works, but it's a complicated build, with an aero headtube I came up with...but more on that another time.
Looks like you've got a museum tucked away somewhere..
let's see what else you got then
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