When good builds go bad....

[DM]

:shock:
Did I un-knowingly Google the "Interior Design Advice Pour Les Hommes" forum?

Can I suggest something radical, luvvie?
Keep the blue ano parts and get the frame resprayed!

"California Pumpkin Sunset", maybe, or even classic S.E. Racing powder blue... And those drapes are sooo not you!

 

[rumpfy]

Don't you just hate it.

Get an idea in your head, think its going to look the nuts, and actually, when you start, you realise its just a car crash. Gash. Yuk. What was I doing??

Anyway, enclosed is a good demo of how the whole becomes a whole lot less than the sum of parts.....

OK, be honest, there must be some more gopping builds about, do show! Make me feel better please!!


:roll: :roll:

Looks fine to me. All good parts.

You put V-Brakes and Spin wheels on it and your build will go bad....

 

[pete_mcc]

You put V-Brakes and Spin wheels on it and your build will go bad....

Euuuwwwwhh, although there is the 'Zaskar clause' exception to that rule as they all seemed to come with those BITD

 

[messiah]

As has been said above - I really like that... It is far from an ugly build.

The cranks do look wrong, but just the black rings, silver rings would fix it.

Maybe silver handlebars (the black will probably look OK with grips etc on).

Black headset spacers don't help.

What brakes are you planning to use - XTR canti's or something fancy???

 

[cchris2lou]

My work Sun is a bit like that .

Rides great , but not looking like I hoped it would be .

 

[Pickle]

I think is lovely.

Only one thing I would consider would be changing the bar to either blue or red.....just IMO though.

Top build - not cr*p build mate

 

[gump]

Thanks for your comments!

My thoughts are that on another frame, or done differently, this could be a wow thing, but as is, just does not quite = the frame + parts :?
Just doesn't seem to work for me.

Have some M900 cantis on the rear, just not got round to the fronts. Gave up build when I realised it was not as it looked in my head. Guess thats why I am an engineer not an artist

Sure Jez never has this trouble..