You can use the money to buy some light wheels, drops and toe clips.

a double plate crown with speed holes?

Where's the other ellipse? I love those wheels.

Are those your track risers, your track brake, and your track pedals with no retention, too?

Hottest bike on here for an age.

nah, I just put the wheels on for the pic, didnt bother to take the brake off (rode it single speed for a little while), need to get some power grips since cages dont fit me too well (size 16 shoe) and I have a set of track drops for the bike when I go to the drome

Looks like it would be tough to ride. What with no pedals and all...

Size 16 shoe?? What is that in euro, like a 54? ;) I dont think they make Sidis that big!

Here is a bike i've been building over the last couple of months.
Its a lightning 53cm frame with mainly nitto and sugino parts.

Some ano parts, but I tried to keep it fairly low key.
I know red deep v's are controversial, but I think they suit it ok.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2172/...af1111.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3205/...g?v=1207321324

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2011/...c39f0c.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3070/...64bf4d.jpg?v=0

I know I am going to catch heck from you guys but I really think this bike would look perfect with black deep-Vs. Leave everything else exactly as it is but add black deep-Vs, it would be so nice. And, as someone else said, that fork there is pretty much the whole reason god invented bicycling. Hawt.

[quote=Tdi;6458127]Tryin to decide which setup is the best, thinkin bout sellin one of my wheel sets:

Initial build:

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...r/IMG_4589.jpg


It would be sweet with the matching Mavic up front instead of the aerospoke......

yeah, thats my girlfriends back yard.

Nooo deep V's on that beautiful chromed frame. It's perfectly understated as it is. It does need matching gum wall action on the front tire though.

No decals save for the little world stripes? I love it.

Naaaaaah, she is only 7 and has limited saddle time. Give her a year... ;)

DW

I don't think I ever posted a shot of this build completed.

http://www.christopherbecks.com/%21f...i/DSC_0380.jpg http://www.christopherbecks.com/%21f...i/DSC_0397.jpg
http://www.christopherbecks.com/%21f...noni/noni1.jpg

I removed the mirror-polished brake/lever for a trade and--for the nitpickers--the front wheel was flipped and I just never flipped the tire. Those are Canadian nickles acting as pedal caps, mais ce vélo est seperatist!

I finally got to taking a photo because a) it's f'ucking snowing today, b) it's now on the trading block, mainly to fund my next ride but also because I'm doing some overseas moving (not conducive to shiny Italian bikes).

That doesn't deserve to be fixed. Nice frame though.

I can assure you the Raleigh will never know the touch of a Deep-V! Like i said I just got it last week and have not put any time into it yet but the plan would be to go open pro in the rear with gatorskins in front and back, leave to 3 small decals, add the headbadge, eventually polish the cranks and stem and pray that no one ever tells me "nice pista" which has already happened about 5 times in 1 day!

that marinoni is just about perfect, although I agree it kinda hurts to see it as a conversion but at least it was done with some serious class! props

that leather bar wrap looks great, so does the rest of the bike

:eyeroll:

nice bikes deserve to be *ridden*.

It's shellac on white cork tape.

And yea, of course I considered gearing it, but at the time I wasn't in need of another geared bike. The crankset is originally a double, so it doesn't need much to be geared. Uno mas:

http://www.christopherbecks.com/%21f...noni/noni2.jpg

That 'noni is awesome... what kind of a saddle is that?

That saddle was probably my happiest eBay find ever. I've never seen one like it with that neato stitching. I'm tempted to keep it for my tarck bike.

It's a Super Contour Royal. Not sure who made it. Super shiny rails and very comfy.

I like Marinoni... all build in Quebec.

that marinoni is absolutely stunning. i get the feeling that at some point in the future we'll see it built up as a proper road bike, and as much as i look forward to that, its a solid, prestigious build as a fixed gear.

'noni frames are really amazing.