http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL652.../124879105.jpg


my conversion road bike to fixie. not too fancy. but rides like a dream

There's already one in Brooklyn. The White Knights. A couple of my friends all had white bikes. I think a few of the bike names are White Heat, White Lightning, and White Guilt. Theres more but I forgot em.

Thanks! :beer:

hmm. ostro, wanna start the sf chapter? :D

lets do it, White Bikes Crew, were gonna have to work on the name.

yeah, it's gonna be tough to pull that one off methinks...

Dude there's no way you can beat the name white guilt but at least your bikes are a sh*te load nicer than theirs.

www.bandnamemaker.com just type in white and we're golden.


edit: favorite so far "White Sunberry and the **** Eggplant"

White is supreme.

White Chocolate

Ostro - je dobry! Nice ride. how about some information about the frame and the maker?

**** eggplant, hands-down winner

[QUOTE=stendhalian]new frame arrived today. thanks to raygunner. first rides tonight in pouring rain. loved it.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...h_DSC04146.jpg


Very nice!

I'm very glad it got there (I was crossing my fingers!) and I almost regret selling it!

ok, **** eggplant beats white guilt. I give in.

its more dubtekas colnago tho...

128, what is your avatar? i am intrigued.

[QUOTE=raygunner]i was stressing a bit as well, but it came, and rides like a dream, perfect size for me. thanks again dude!

its a cropped panel from an 80's comic called "the shadow" drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz.

http://static.flickr.com/39/84044484_f7e93609cd_o.jpg

I just always kinda liked the pose of the dude in the corner. Of course, I think the whole things pretty effin bad ass, too. :D

I built this bike up in April, but I just got a camera. She's the Pink Nightmare as she's pink and cost way more than I'd expected and I ran into more compatibility and parts problems than I'd care to detail. That said, it was a total riot building up a bike for the first time, and heartily recommended it to everyone. It's my first fix and I've had lots and lots of fun riding it. You can tell from the pics - she hasn't been cleaned for a couple of days because I keep finding excuses to take this and my SS bike out every couple of hours.

Until the last month or so I was totally one of those enthusiastic newbies who wants to explain to everyone (cashiers, doormen, coworkers, passersby, etc) how awesome riding a fix is. Now you just see it on my face when I'm grinning while trackstanding at an intersecting with one hand while I'm looking for my keypass in my bag with the other :p

Nothing special about anything, except that I was trying to stick with pink, as the frame is the original metalflake pearl cotton candy pink. A wrench at Via in Philly told me that from the lugs and where the decals (can't see in the photos, but there's the remainder outline of of LLE on the down and seat tubes) used to be that it looks like a Pinnarello to him, or is at least Italian - I could look at the serial number if anyone's an expert on this stuff. The frame with fork and headset is about the same weight as my bare Surly frame, so I think that this was a lightweight racer from back in the day.

This new vinyl bartape unfortunately replaced the pink, black and white Cinelli cork that was trashed - only thing they had at the shop in pink. Oh well.

The rundown:

64cm frame with 59.5 tt - just a shade too small with a 130 stem. Rack brazeons front and rear - not sure if the fork is original, but the lugs are the same shape as on the rest of the bike.
formula/cxp22 front with a Kogswell/MA3 rear
campy copy no name crank (with a mismatched 600 left arm - look in the bag before you leave a shop when buying used parts in a town you don't live in. At least they're the same length :p)
no name stem 130mm supposedly off a gray Bianchi Pista (have a 140 I haven't put on yet)
no name bars 44cm
Kalloy cromo post that might be .2cm too small - reminder to self to get calipers instead of relying on lousy bike shop employees
Flite saddle - perfect for me
cheap Contintal rubber from MEC - 13$ apiece I think, and pretty light and longwearing so far
Nashbar brake - surprisingly good for a $20 pair of calipers; I'd venture to say the best road brake value around
Nashbar levers - not at all recommended, these are really junky and not even worth the ten bucks I paid for them

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1..._nightmare.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...mare_booty.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...re_head_on.jpg

Hey weren't you in bike works the other day with a ladyfriend and her hott red schwinn? Cause if you were that ride came out damned fine.

indeed, indeed. thanks!

Nice final product. You two will be the hottest couple on the town now. Components?

beautiful day today in s.f... judah, dollface hope to make the ride next weekend!

here's two bikes i just built:

the gold/silver chrome romani:
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•52.5cm, bling
•campagnolo cranks, 165mm, 48 tooth chainring
•campagnolo record high-flange 28 hole hubs laced to white (aftermarket)
powdercoated mavic cxp-33 rims, 18 tooth cog
•cinelli stem, 100mm
•cinelli pista bars, 38cm, with hand-laced perf'd leather grips
•gipiemme headset
•mks royal nuevo pedals, toshi double straps
•shadow conspiracy half-link chain
•san marco rolls saddle, campagnolo knock-off seatpost

the keirin level:
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•51cm (this bike is 90% njs, excepting the 28 hole hubs and velocity rims)
•sugino grand mighty cranks, 165mm, 48 tooth zen chainring
•dura-ace 7600 high-flange 28 hole hubs laced to velocity deep-v rims, 18 tooth cog
•nitto jaguar, steel stem, 100mm
•nitto b-125 track drops, 36cm, strong-g grips
•hatta swan headset
•mks royal nuevo pedals, toshi double straps
•izumi model v track chain
•kashimax 5 gold saddle, nitto jaguar seat post

holy shiznit those two are HAWT!
Mad props to you! :D

I am speechless. There are not enough words, explatives, or other bodily functions that can express quite how unreal those rides are. I'm slackjawed.