Sunday 21 December 2008

Tuesday 2 December 2008

H plus son rear rim


H plus son rear rim in silver ordered today from the kind people at BLB.
Nearing those stages of conception.
Next on the agenda Turbo saddle being restored in grey vintage leather.

Friday 14 November 2008

singlespeed


This little beater has to go.

Fund parts for my main build.

Black beauty


Bike returned from powder coaters.

Nice matt finish and seems pretty chip resisitant tried a few knocks to the fork stem.

Bit of a build up at the weekend i think.

Thursday 13 November 2008

Fixed gear swindon

Seen a couple of people riding fixed in the past few days.

My nan used to ride with the swindon wheelers during war time.

I'll find out a pic this week.

Off to powder coaters to pick up the beauty tmrw, the BLACK beauty.

Wednesday 12 November 2008

sleeps with the Powder coater.

The frame is currently sleeping at the powder coaters and should come back black on friday.

Then its off to get the detailing done. whoop whoop.

Sunday 2 November 2008

Paint removal the hard way (Orbit project 1.5)


Shotblasting was going to cost £35.00 and take around a week.

Blackfriars paint stripper cost £2.79 and i had this stripped in 4 hours.

Thanks for a rainy weekend and some spare hours!

Orbit pista project 1.5


Orbit pista Frame. New project.