Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Drop Bars + Oury Grips...I need your pics!

I want to see some peoples oury or champ grips up on the shoulders of drop bars. Thinking about doing it with mine but i want to see how it looks before I go chopping up grips. Thanks.

Here ya go.

My bars are naked by the stem, champ grips on the shoulders, and cloth in the drops. I can snap a picture if you want.

Do a search on FGG. Should take you about 5 seconds.

Do a search on FGG. Should take you about 5 seconds.

whats fgg?

http://ckdu.dal.ca/~mcatano/bars.jpg

is that a 1 inch 3t stem with a removable plate?

Yeah, the 3T Mutant Classic. It's a nice stem... it was way too long for me though. That bike has been rocking risers for a while now:

http://ckdu.dal.ca/~mcatano/headonbrit.jpg

whats fgg?

The Fixed Gear Gallery (http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/).

http://ckdu.dal.ca/~mcatano/bars.jpg

damn, that's a nice set up. what frame is that with those sweet wrap-around seat stays??

Dunno what frame that mcatano has, but wrap around seatstays are a trademark of old british bikes. I got em too, they rule.

mcatano's british bike (http://velospace.org/node/139)

love the ride

Looks like a Witcomb (like the one I'm gettin. Yeeeaayaah). Witcomb rocked the wraparounds seatstays and the dropous look Holdsworth which they were known to use back in the day. Could be talking out of my arse though/

Looks like a Witcomb (like the one I'm gettin. Yeeeaayaah). Witcomb rocked the wraparounds seatstays and the dropous look Holdsworth which they were known to use back in the day. Could be talking out of my arse though/

Yea, talkin' out yer arse drunkboy...
Those ends were the most common ends used in Britain. Holdsworth, Rotrax, Harry Hall, Gillot, Carlton, etc. etc. all used them at one time or another. Wraparound stays were nearly as common with nearly as many builders. Even with a serial no. it would be nearly impossible to name the builder based on frame characteristics.

IOC, decided about the tubing for your frame yet?

If any of you Londoners can track down any info on a builder named stan miles from the 50's I'd be VERY interested. And yes it has the same track ends and wrap around seat stays.

The only marking on my frame is the word, "PURSUIT," stamped on the underside of the bottom bracket shell.

Zeus out of Spain also made bikes with wrap around seatstays.

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http://ckdu.dal.ca/~mcatano/bars.jpg
are you from pittsburgh? i think i saw your bike locked up in sq.hill

You might've also seen my bike locked up around PGH this past summer.

whats do you think of pittsburgh as far as riding bikes on the street goes?you ever go to 'freeride'?

are you from pittsburgh? i think i saw your bike locked up in sq.hill

Nope... I'm from Canada.

whats do you think of pittsburgh as far as riding bikes on the street goes?you ever go to 'freeride'?

It's the best city I've ridden in so far. Insanely vigilant bike advocacy, very mild traffic congestion, strangely considerate drivers, lots of comrades on bikes are all good reasons for Pittsburgh being one of the better cities in the country for cycling. As far as Free Ride, yeah, I went there almost every day it was open this summer; it's where I cut my teeth working on bikes and learned how to be uber resourceful, as they get stock via donation.

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add grips all you want, but no bike is complete without gorgeous lugs like those on that 128 bike!

*humps my bike*

I want to get ed litton to restore it, I'm gonna ride over to his place either this weekend or next to meet him and get a quote.

fine-tipped paint marker (silver) and a steady hand is all you need, outline the lugs and it's done. i'll do it, but i charge a buttload. puffypaint is sweet for lug-outlining too, and not permanent.

I've thought of that. I was thinking about doing it with a fine tipped brush and some silver enamel paints. It's the fact that spray paint chips when I look at it funny that bugs me.

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That rug really ties the room together.

Haha. You should see the rest of the room. I took those photos at work and the rest of the room is a little.. well... Theres a giant lionskin rug complete with taxidermied head directly behind where I was in the profile photo.

That rug really ties the room together.

no more big lebowski quotes, they make me hate my job even more and wish i was home in a bath totally "chillin".

at least white spraypaint is easy to touch up... did you do a proper primer and apply a few coats of the white? sand between coats and apply clear coat after it's all done and dried? should hold up kinda a-ok... the white is nice. if you restore it what color?

Yea, sandpaper, primer, 5 coats, clearcoat. Its holding up ok but cuz its white the chips stand out and the original blue shows through. I wanna keep it white, or an offwhite like shloemoes carlton, chrome the lugs / chainstay, and recreate the decals (which were originally gold w/ a thin black outline in all caps Helvetica). Maybe a pin stripe here and there. When I meet up with Mr. Litton I'll figure out what I can afford.

its kindof neat as a super-ultra-classy bike with a home-made paint job. interesting contrast, you know? like content doesn't fit form in a nice way. the restoration idea sounds totally ideal, though.

The whole bikes a contradiction. Fancy frame, ****ty paintjob... Old parts, new parts..

The other day I noticed I have parts from England, USA, France, Germany, Japan, and Italy that range from +50 years to brand new all on one bike. Mongrel bikes rule.

Lets trade. You send me the Stan Miles, I'll send you a pure bred K-Mart Huffy special.

just what i always wanted!

don't knock huffy! the masi in breaking away is actually a huffy.

Are you guys using the road or mountain grips for the oury's. I'm thinking of putting some on the flats on my cross bike.

oh man i wanted to do exatly that but didn't want to shell out fifty bones for a set of b123 that i would jsut cover up...if anyone has and old ones of banged up ones send me a PM. i would love to take them off ur hands.