nayr497

What the **** is wrong with you? This is at least the third time in the past few weeks you've used that word. I LOATHE that word. Please stop. You sound like an eight year old. As much as some people dislike the word ****, I think I dislike this word more. You seriously need to head over to the Scat Enthusiasts Forum.

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As for that Ciocc, I understand you are probably a tall person, but the nice lines of bicycles are made less nice when you head north of 60cm frames. It is kind of like how you don't see Yao Ming sized people as world-class ballerinos.

Rafiki

Jabba Degrassi

Don't be such a poopie-head.

edit: And what do you expect the Ciocc owner to do? Stop riding? Get a bike that doesn't fit him? What?

chris175

tall is good, superior gene pool and all that nice long legged kitty cat we get. that ciocc is nyyyyyyce!!! let the big dogs hunt.

unogear

Who cares it is cheap or not as long as you happy riding it. Right?

bigbris1

Yesh yeshall!

shapelike

Seriously? All that long legged kitty cat thinks you're a d0uche.

JimmyOneSmith

That is so very true.

chris175

Nope. not at all.

jet sanchEz

Threaded one of the binding bolts on my alter stem so pulled some old thing out of the parts bin; it is a little long but works until something better comes along. Since it has a 31.8 clamp, I decided to get a set of the Deda pista bars.

The Thomson seatpost was a lucky find on CL...only $45 and it is in perfect condition. I am still playing around with the setup, the seat will come down a bit and I have a carbon fork that might find it's way onto the bike for winter....

jet sanchEz

I hope those are silver spacers above the stem and not the bare steer-tube.

markyblaze

first fixie, trying to learn. so far having fun. it's a budget build. It was a fuji mtb that some guy converted to a ss with 26's. totally f'd up the bike with tons of spray paint. I guess it was artsy? Anyways, I shaved and powder coated it, threw on a craigslist special wheelset and bought some ebay horns, headset, stem and seat post. The chain I mcgyvered from some old crap I had laying around. Those are MKS sylvan pedals/cages and sugino xd 165m crankset 46/16 with tange sealed bb. I build old school bmx's, my first attempt at building a fixed gear. I'm waiting for a new saddle.
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after

be kind. any advice would help

devilshaircut

Purty job! Although your seat looks adjusted weirdly. Wish I had more time to work on my pet project.

EDIT: Just thought if you were looking for more upgrades to your bike, you might consider doing some detailing on the crown of your fork.

deathhare

Fix bars, fix seat ASAP

DARTHVADER

pretty nice. i would used different rims though.
and those seatposts are ugly.
your chain looks a little tight too.

wearyourtruth

dang that's the largest tire-to-seattube gap i've ever seen. i thought it was a 27" frame that had 26" wheels on it at first look.

markyblaze

I wanted to do that, but after I had stripped the paint it wasn't so pretty. thanks for the advice and comp

I knew I was gonna get some talk with the seat and I will fix that. bolt was kind of loose and settled that way. the bars, I tilted up because I'm still trying to get this whole skidding down and I thought I could cheat a little. I'll fix it too. thanks for the advice

Ride Among Us

lol +1!

Jabba Degrassi

Rims are fine seatpost is fine chain is fine.

JimmyOneSmith

Anyone have any suggestions on what i can do to further trick this out. Im kind of at a standstill with it

ZiP0082

things you could consider:

+ getting nicer bullhorns that aren't flop & chop (maybe nitto)
+ consider a bar-end lever for those new horns that helps to conceal the brake cable more
+ foot retention via clips and straps
+ seat with a slimmer profile

but it looks good.

devilshaircut

Suggestion:

Saw the frame apart and add in metal to fill in the gaps to make the bike span the entire width of the room it is in, so you can hang it purely from tension formed when you wedge it between the walls.

Kidding.

I dunno what you are going for, but I know the previous poster suggested Nitto handlebars, they might have something ... I know they sell a lot of gold colored products and that appears to be a theme in your color scheme thus far.

EDIT: And yeah, that is an ugly seat.

JimmyOneSmith

Yeah the seat is god awful I know (though comfortable), I would be down to get a new seat but i dont really want to break the bank, any suggestions on that front?

And good call on the handlebars- i would like an actual bullhorn

pdx_climber

Saddle Up

Oh my here it comes...