thanks!

-the fork is a lugged road fork which tony had powdercoated for me to match the frame
-sugino 75 cranks w/45t zen messenger
-17t eai cog/da lockring
-king headset
-izumi eco chain
-mks sylvans/mks steel clips/soma doubles (these will be swapped later this week for mks rx-1's/toshi singles - it turns out doubles are not my thing at all)
-selle italia turbo saddle
-kalloy seatpost (i am looking for a new or gently used nitto s-83)
-nitto alloy n.j. pro, 110, 58* neg. rise
-answer protaper bars/oury grips
-wheels are nothing to speak of - they are from the nice fellow in miami, but will be swapped for a set of phils laced to open pros this summer
-also keeping my eyes open for a new or gently used phil bottom bracket
-gatorskins, in case anyone cares

this is my only fixed ride these days, so i have decided to keep it entirely sealed bearing/as maintenance-free as possible (hence, king, phils in the future, etc.)

once this is finished, my next will likely be something a little more zippy... probably a bike for nice days. i like that i can (and do) ride this bike in a storm and not worry about it falling to pieces. still fun as anything, though.

Yeah looks great. Big frame.
A gold stem would be the sickest...Interested in one?

I am!

I wish they had pics of all the winners!

that thing is friekin amazing.

New wheels for my Rossin.

Wah wah wee wah, is niiice.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/180/3...ba922f7f_b.jpg

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For more pics click "My Rossin" in my signature.

Not a fan of the huge wide bars but the black/yellow theme looks amazing!

Quite easily the sexiest bike I have seen in awhile. It took me your ride to truly appreciate the ***** and bikes jokes floating around these parts.

I'm just curious as to how you dealt with the weird chainline of the mavic ellipses.

Or how they dealt with the lockring threads/bearing compression problem.

that yellow and black looks tasty though.

sexy rossin bike^

That bike is the hotness. Black and yellow ftw

The bars are only 42cm nittos, dunno why but they always look super wide when I take pictures of them... probably just the perspective when I take a picture from the front.

Well the chainline is dead on, DuraAché 16t in the back, maybe it's my older TA crank that makes it all work. I heard about these issuse, but didn't think or look much into them, for me there's always a way to make it work, but in this case everything was perfect.

As for the lockring threads/bearing compression problem I haven't heard anything about that, could you explain? I just got these from work on friday and put them on tonight, so I haven't done any riding on them, and wont until the weather is nicer or I take it to the track.

Now you need the yellow/black Mavic clipless pedals.

Sell me your Campy caliper if you're not using it.

Well I like my Look Keo carbons, but when they are trashed I will look into the mavics.

Sorry, but I will still be using the brake since I primarily use it on the street :p

Just took it off for the picture

Here's the chainline

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pretty much perfect

Yeah, Im gonna need to change my drawers now....

There's been issues about people stripping the lockring threads easily.

And then also by word of mouth, I've heard that the aluminum hub shell between the lockring threads and the cartridge bearings is really thin, compressing on the bearings when alot of torque is given to the cog/lockring area.

I also cannot speak from personal experience, so take this as you may.

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A few better pictures of the eimei with a more comfortable --and much cheaper-- saddle. Really need to change the cog when I get back to the states. Sorry about the whitewashing of the images (I said they were better, never said they were great).

p.s. any of those cards look familiar?

Hmm well I'll be putting lots of torque on it once I get on the bike :D I cant wait, hope nothin breaks.

I didn't tighten down the lockring much yet, but when I do I'll be cautious.

In the meantime I'm gonna pull the rear hub apart and check it out for intrest, get some calipers and see how thin it really is.

Thanks for the info.

What gearing are you running now? Looks good.
Do you ride around with the lights on there? Someone gone take em. :)

It's still 49x19. I just hate the look of it. And yeah, I leave the lights on. Never thought about people taking 'em, though I guess it is a possibility, even here.

DuraAce cogs are only like 13 bucks or so. Better get one here cause you know in the states theyre a rip off.

that ***** happened to me my lock ring shot off when I was trying to stop at a light (scary) then I guess itcompressed the cone so that my wheel would not spin freely. hope you got the MP3 warranty.
I had mine 4 days before that happened sent them back

but man the rode nice for 6 miles and look HOT.