Nice geometry. That bike has tonnes of potential. Get it up in the Gallery and keep us posted.

evan - yeah, i found that i wasn't really using the brake. actually, i don't think i ever did, aside from at stop lights to get my pedal in a better starting position... so, totally unessential. i had been riding around in northampton brakeless for a little while, but now it's permanent. it's nice to not have that safety net; i think it makes for a much more fun ride. more alert, etc.

that fork is hottt

tell me where!

First pake in Australia?
 

I know it's not built, but I had to offer pics of my new pake.

I think it's the first Pake in Oz, so I thought that was worth putting out there.

It won't be built for a couple of months, so it'll live under the bed or something for a while.

I'm having brown 32 hole deep v's and formula hubs built by the lovely Lynn at CTA - he's a gent of the highest calibre.

Also the guys at CBD helped alot in getting it sent from the US.

It'll have all black components & bullhorns for street/deep drop Nittos for the track (if I get there).

I'm very excited.

I'll keep you informed

http://www.chainringtransitauthority.com/
http://citybikedepot.com.au/

This just gave me genius ideas: leave a long steerer such as yours uncut on a town bike, and mount bars way way up there. Run the seatpost as low as it can go, and peer over the bars while you cruise. Jammin!

I like riding faster with a brake. To each his own.

You've opened my eyes. I was going to go for the urban-aero-type thing. Now I'm full on "morning vicar".

God bless us everyone.

Is that Northampton in England?

I'm from Kettering. Came to Australia via London.

Help ID these track bars?

Heres the before and after shots of my bike. It started off as a classic 1973 raleigh professional. But fate conspired to give her a busted top tube (as well as cracked seat tube lug and a twisted fork/headtube.). Bernie Mikkelsen repaired everything and Barry Witcomb built a replacement fork.

Shame I couldn't keep the original paint job, but the matt black paint is pretty stealthy.

Before (note silly 650c front):
http://www.tinyblueplanet.com/bikes/raleigh.jpg

After:
http://www.tinyblueplanet.com/bikes/ephraim.jpg

nice bike, nice avatar. (that is cheese of milk and cheese, right?)

That's right, baby

what grips are those?

Dimension Big Cheese would be my guess

Are those the older style DA High Flange hubs, or something else?

something else.

Big Red
 

Before:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...eporn035-1.jpg

Stripped:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...seattle062.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...seattle060.jpg

After:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...seattle084.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...seattle087.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...seattle088.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...seattle090.jpg

The road bike was my grandfathers, so free
The hubs and chain i got for free from a family friend
I got the spokes from marcus, the rims in california, and the tires and cog at Licktons, and i built it last night. I moved the Big chain ring in, ground down the double bolts to single width, and the chainline was suprisingly good, the hub perfectly fit into the dropouts. Its 52:18. I cut off the brake cable brazons and did a ****ty temp wrap job. I laced the wheels to the hubs 3 cross, and for the record, building deep Vs is a ***** as its quite easy to drop nipples inside trying to attach them to the spokes, but hey, im no shop mechanic.

Total cost $300

holy ****, is that like a 66cm or something? or is the yellow one next to it just the tiniest thing in the world?

this dude from philly has that same bike and i think its sooo hott ...
http://www.syntheticpawn.com/junk/ap...tbike/bike.jpg

Yeah, 66cm, the yellow bike is my girl's, shes like 5' 3", i dont know how many cm her frame is though, but its small.

66cm, lol. Get shorter please.

All I need to know.

:)

That's definitely one of the most attractive large frames I've ever seen. Often it seems like frames over 61 cm or so have really spindly-looking seatstays and grotesquely exaggerated head tubes. I definitely think yours is nice looking. Bridgestone made some quality stuff :)

it kiiiinda aaaalllmost looks like the world's smallest tallbike.. i'm not sure that i've ever even seen a 66cm frame. how tall are you? 7'?

that being said, it looks awesome w/those red deep v's. and for so cheap!

probably because the seat tube is so slack, which means shorter seatstays.

though that might just be the angle in the photo.