i'll take some more pictures when i get home later this evening. i literally finished the bike around 10 this morning, so i only had time to take a quick shot.

My new frame.

http://www.curlybro.com/filestash/side.jpg
http://www.curlybro.com/filestash/front.jpg
http://www.curlybro.com/filestash/hub.jpg

Next step, matching tires.

I just picked up this Raleigh Team 531 track frameset.

I dig that Levi's/Raleigh color scheme

love that blue.

BA-NA-NA MA-KI-NO
I hate yellow, beside when Lance wears that ****. Mr. Shants the next time we ride together, I am goin to wear my King of the Mountains cap and you will wear that Mapei cap. And we will just look like some ****in fools. Really I am very proud of you, just make sure not to leave that front wheel radial laced when you get it rebuilt because that **** looks worse than that yellow.

i love you kyle

Wow, the angles on that makino look so steep that the frame looks like a square. Rad.

as requested, here are a couple of additional pictures:
http://www.chemicalwarfare.net/~apratt/makinoseat.jpghttp://www.chemicalwarfare.net/~apratt/makinodrive.jpg
http://www.chemicalwarfare.net/~apratt/makinobars.jpg
it's really hard to get a good idea of what the glitter paint job actually looks like -- the picture of the seatcluster gets it the closest.

I was thinking the same thing. Shants, take an angle finder to your seat tube. It must be 80 degrees.

nice Shants, very nice.

the seattube is 80degrees, indeed. the headtube, if i remember correctly, is something like 76-78 if i can properly recall

That's some serious Sailor Moon ***** right there.

m.

i love that glitter paint job. so nice.

Here's my Raleigh Twenty. I can switch the back wheel with one laced to a seven speed sram hub - hence the rear brakes and click box. I managed to get a good straight chainline! Glad of the front brakes - how do you guys manage without!?!?!?
Oh and the last one is how it used to look before I bought it and spent too much restoring it...


http://www.littlepixel.info/twenty/108_0828.jpg
http://www.littlepixel.info/twenty/108_0835.jpg
http://www.littlepixel.info/twenty/03_1.jpg

Dude, I've seriously been considering getting one of these and fixing it up....how do they ride fixed? How does your top speed and handling compare to a 27" wheeled bike? Also, does the frame rattle at all, due to the folding bits?

Kudos on the bike man, quite a sweet little number.

I love it, especially the JB Weld. Sheldon has a fixed 20 that he seems to love, but then he's a kook. :)

CMWC had a few people competing on folders, I think there was even a fixed Bike Friday in there somewhere. Awesomeness.

shants, im honored to live in the same city as your makino

here's my new bike. it's a 55, white, stock except for the seat, pedals and whiteness.
you can probably guess what it is.

I'll take guess that bike for $400 Alex.
"here's my new bike. it's a 55, white, stock except for the seat, pedals and whiteness."

What is a Bianchi Pista?

Here are some more pix of fixies I recently finished:
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/5...fork3gq.th.jpg
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/3...fork8pe.th.jpg
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/2...defork7.th.jpg

On a different note, the parlee on fgg and the new giant got me thinking. I'm gonna build myself a lugless carbon fixie frame with wrapped joints and paragon Ti track dropouts. I should get in some reynolds carbon tubea any day now.

Is it wrong that I get wood, while looking at this post? :0

that white pista is hands down the sexiest new pista i have seen (aside from concept and reparto course)

congrats dude

I really would like to see more photos of that Pista. I am really interested in painting my IRO.

Wow Shants, you're making a fellow Ohioan jealous. How the heck did you find an NJS frame in that size without doing e-frame bank?

Rides well in the little experience I have so far. It's not as fast with as with the 7 speed (which was running 54->16) this is 54->14 and gets around 25mph before it starts getting to spinny for me. Of course - if I got a bigger chainwheel I could probably sort that. Handling is great - people think that 20" wheels = skittery but it's not the case. Sure - it feels a bit different and the gyroscopic effect is a wee bit smaller but you get used to that in an instant. You also get used to the responsiveness. Getting back on a 26"/700cc wheeled bike feels like cotton wool riding after a fiesty little 406 wheeler.

The frame does not rattle in the least. The diagaonal split (most are vertical) is held by two bolts and is rock solid in use. There's virtually no flex as the downtube is heavy gauge.

Yes - it's pretty heavy but that's cos of original steel bars/susp post/susp forks. You can get them pretty light - have a look on the FGG for more minimal twenties:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...leigh%20twenty