I have always envied you, beautiful chrome Pista owners. This is as close as I coud get. I haven't got these smooth welds, I will have to deal with ornate lugs this thing come with.
Faded sticker on the seat tube says "Reynolds 531 guaranteed doubly butted, butted stays" and some other things which are illegible. I will post better images when I build it up.

witty...

:/ oh well

you can't have em' all

you poor thing

That thing is *****in'. More photos!

that looks sweet!

Hmm..

Screw paintjobs, chrome is where is at@!

lugly

Those look like the same lugs as the ones on the frame I just ordered on ebay...I take it they are nervex as well.

toss some flat black Krylon on that and it would look allright

Yes, "nervex" is stamped to the BB lug, frame is allegedly German (had German national flag sticker) and the only other sticker on the down tube says Polrad - searching the net on it brings some links to Zundapp - German moto bike maker.

oh ****. i didn't see this.
i too have a polrad...
i can't find any info on it at all.
no years of production, location (other than germany)
or history. the headtube reads "radsport" which i know transaltes
into "cycle racing" and the downtube reads "polrad" which all i can figure
means magnet wheel or fly wheel.


anyone? anything?

ooooh...yummmm...i can't wait for pics of the finished product.

mmm! twin-plate fork crown!

i guess i should take some pics of mine.
as it sits quietly in the garage, wating
for my leg to start working again.

that might just make me die though.

Reminds me of the Baylis Masi Recreation

Yeah,
my bike was made by a robot, these bikes look like they were made by pathetic hu-mans. did you hear that? my bike was made by a frickin ROBOT!

at least i think it was, not fully sure

eh

i still think a pista frame with good parts is good for the money. this, on the other hand, is flat out bee-yoo-ti-ful.

Brian makes the most beautiful frames I've ever seen. He's a great guy too. Hand him a beer and a cigar and you can get him to tell you all the secrets to frame building. I've had a few great conversations over the years with him... great guy.

I tried to at NAHBS but he was away from his booth and then I had to go That bike was my favorite thing at the show that I saw in the little time I had to check it out

Our own Spor did manage to come in 4 overall in the NAHBS rallycat on a pista...

I spoke w/ Mr. Bayliss at length about his replicas. He's got several right now...next one is a Confente, but it may be a year or two before he finishes. He only makes them for personal use, and puts marks on them that those in the know would recognize as his in case they ended up in someone else's hands and they tried to sell them as the original.

sweet!

In my humble opinion, and I am admittedly biased because I have known him for years, Baylis is THE MAN. Sascha White from Vanilla is rapidly becoming my new favorite. The guy is insane with what he is doing. I have a feeling even Baylis would say "wow" to some of the things White is doing. White seems like a pretty humble and mellow guy too... and that goes a long way.

That's really going slow. I just got the front wheel (high flange super record laced to insanely light tubular rim, waiting for a matching rear, counting money for record fluted cranks, some brooks will be in order as well as chrome pista bars - this is getting expensive. In the mean time my conversion (main bike) is undergoing rear end relaacement after an accident last year, and I am riding road colnago equipped with suicide hub and cross tubbies - the f@#$# winter with a foot of snow is still here.

All in all, you wanna pics? you have to be patient.