Thanks Metric! I let the painter choose the exact shade. I just gave him some ideas, like pink with polkadots and he ran with it. She'll be at Major Taylor all summer long...or at least when I go. She is so in love with her bike, its really cute.

Thanks Jam!

DW

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dang, i like that.

there has been a good deal of awesome bikes posted as of late. I love that thing ^

dang, ****'s sweet. trispokes beat out all other aero-wheels!

1970's-80's Miyata Liberty that I just finished the conversion on. 'Tis my first attempt at creating a fixed gear. Used the cheapest parts I could find on HarrisCyclery.com. 42/15 gearing. It's enough to keep me at a decent speed. I'll probably drop it down to 14 eventually. Or get a bigger front chainring.

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Still deciding whether I want to put bullhorns on or not. I'm going to give it a few weeks to see if I ever use the drop part. Therefore the bars aren't taped yet. Also waiting on the decision to figure out where to mount my brake lever/s.

Any suggestions for colors to paint the frame? I will probably rebuild the front wheel with a black hub, when funds become available.

Bullhorns are overrated. Classic road bars with non-aero levers are wayyyyyyyyyyy classier, and offer an increased number of hand positions.

Also, I wouldn't repaint that thing unless it's severely busted. Hard to tell from the photos, but it looks quite nice to me.

I wouldn't convert or switch to bullhorns either...

If you run brakes (which you clearly do) I always found 45 x 13 to be an ideal gearing...

It is in pretty good condition. A little rust on places where the paint had been rubbed off.

That's another reason I didn't tape them, not sure if I'm just going to slap some bmx style brake levers on the tops. Based on the little bit I have been able to ride it I think I'll be happy to have the drops when the head-wind picks up on my commute home.

Decided to change it up a bit:

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i see what you did there.

what do you guys do for repair stands? Just man up and drop 150 bucks on one?

is that the new whip to replace your panasonic

You can get a used Park stand for ~$100 on eBay. Then there's this, which gets the job done for pretty cheap.

1.) that fork on the davidson is sweet. it's like a unicrown fork had a kid with a lugged fork.
2.) does it have a slightly sloping toptube?

Once I got mine home, I wondered why I had waited so long.

Hope a local shop is going under and then buy their stand. My first Park came when a shop went under ($75 w/ base). The second came from replying and buying a Park truing stand on CL ($150 for the repair stand w/ no base). My third and the cheapest portable Park came from a garage sale last summer for $20.

you are so wrong.

looks like a pretty slick conversion, good job.

Thank you, it went together surprisingly well. Didn't even have to touch the chainline at all.

If you look at my picture, I used some 1/2" metal pipe, a 3'x3' sheet of 3/4" plywood, and a Pony pipe clamp kit to make a stand. cut some V's into two blocks of wood, put some plastic-handle dip on the cuts and epoxied them to the clamp's jaws. Works pretty well for ~$30-$40.

thanks everyone. and yeah, it has a slightly sloping tt. -2 or 3 degrees.

The shop that went under was horrible. Good riddance

wat bars are these?

Ugh I want the GT. It looks so nice.

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56cm steamroller complete
nitto b125a drops
fizik arione saddle
gatorskins
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