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by **ride_whenever** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:33 am

Okay so this is basically how it arrived other than the white bars/stem

so currently it's in bits...

had the v-bosses ground off

and a disc mount fabricated and welded on

and finally a new headset

by **ride_whenever** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:39 am

so going on it are some parts:

chain

chain tug and single speed spacer kit

cranks, ring and bash

saddle

seat clamp

seatpost

brakes

bars stem brakes i'll need new grips though!

pedals

by **ride_whenever** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:41 am

finally the wheels

front hub

qr skewers

built up rear hub

on scales

balanced

lefty front wheel

I'll put up some of the forks tomorrow.

by **DamonC** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:34 am

Very nice.

What colour is it going to be :lol:

by **jay12** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:24 am

absolutly awespme

are you making pasta and tomato sauce?

Contour HD Videos · by **The Northern Monkey** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:31 am

Is that a white KMC chain? where from?!

Good choice on bars/stem ... solid as hell!

by **ride_whenever** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:24 am

No pasta and tomato sauce, it was three sausage pasta bake...

I got the KMC chain from the moore and large rep when he came round i think. The bars are amazing, 700mm wide mean i can hump the thing up hills really easily.

by **The Big Cheese** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:02 am

RW: looking good.... loving the colour theme....

Are you gonna get the frame resprayed? Did you do some of the spraying yourself?

Gonna look great when she's built up, nice componentry choices, and those rims would look great on my Marin :wink:

by **ride_whenever** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:19 am

Yeah, the frame will be powdercoated in the new year, got new stickers to put on then helicopter tape.

The small parts i sprayed myself.

My fav part so far are probably the sapim spokes, the cx-ray look great.

by **The Big Cheese** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:36 am

ride_whenever wrote:Yeah, the frame will be powdercoated in the new year, got new stickers to put on then helicopter tape.

The small parts i sprayed myself.

My fav part so far are probably the sapim spokes, the cx-ray look great.

Nice one, you've done a great job there on the spraying, I restored a retro Marin stem a while back, even put it in the oven for 45 minutes to bake it, came out a treat

Did you use a clear coat over the top for durability? I did on the stem, pretty tough finish, I think if I hadn't, any knock and the paint would have chipped off to easily.....

Gonna look great when built up...

Defo need new grips though :lol:

by **Hoathy** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:28 am

this is going to be pimped! like the colour scheme, going to get dirty pretty quicly though! I bought some spank white lock on grips the other day and they are ace, might be worth a look if you don't have yet!

What are you doing for forks? or are you sticking with the original On One ones?

by **Paul 8v** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:45 pm

Are you putting lefty forks on there? it says further up you've got a letfy wheel?!

by **Hoathy** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:18 pm

the steerer would be the wrong size.

by **ride_whenever** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:57 pm

oh my peeps, you're too excited, lets see some forkage:

option a

or option b

now i know the lefty shouldn't fit, but i'm getting a custom steerer machined, so it could fit, however given the rear wheel is lighter than the lefy front, and the sids are lighter than the lefty, i might not, other than for a bit of a change every now and again.

On the painting, 2 coats of primer to get it even, sanded inbetween with 1200 paper, 3-5 coats of white gloss sanded with 1500 paper, then 2-3 coats of lacquer not sanded other than for any drips. Bars and stem arrived white, the grips are also the spank ones, but they really didn't last well.

As for getting it dirty, that's kindof the point... go mud plugging on a sparkly white bike, then clean it up afterwards... Must get some white waterproofs!

I'd love a set of these to wear with it:

Eventually I'll also get some white hoses for the brakes, as the white cables looked ace on the inbred originally! Also, when the bike shop i work at starts doing scott, i might try and blag some of the white tyres for it, just for photo shots!

by **Paul 8v** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:25 pm

I'd love to see it with a lefty

by **ride_whenever** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:34 pm

there will definitely be a lefty photoshoot, but then I think the lefty will be relegated to the rat bike, unless is it astonishingly good.

Or maybe I'll just sell it on.

by **jay12** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:45 pm

i would only use the lefty on that bike if it was white

by **ride_whenever** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:48 pm

I was thinking that, the issue is the rubber boots though, and the wheel which is silver.

The boots cannot be sprayed nor can the bumper so i'd need to find something to make them white with, or some sort of proxy for them in white. Other than that, i'd be up for stripping them and painting them white, it isn't too hard to disassemble the lefty. Other than the 1.5mm allen key it's all fairly standard tools.

by **The Big Cheese** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:29 pm

Without doubt the sid race, have them on the Marin and they are superb, I think the lefty would look odd, and requires a LOT of faffing.... SIDs all the way

by **ravey1981** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:46 pm

Looks like this is going to be nice

While you're at it why not get rid of the rack/mudguard mounts. I like the disc brake mount between the stays...similar to the ragley frames....

Can you move the hose guides under the top tube like the newer inbred frames? Would make for smoother look....

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