kludge

iro mark v with blah blah seat post, stem, wheels, crankset.
i wish....i just wish it were just a lil' more pimpish. like if i were to give it away to a poor person. cause i like poor people and everything but sometimes i just look at them and think to myself "god, are you ever poor. and because of it, you have bad taste in bikes. i should give you mine"

but then i realize that poor people are hella lazy and stupid.

unaesthetic

I'm pretty sure this is a Spectrum frame. The only other one I've seen like it was being sold by a guy in San Jose, CA.

Here's their site, although you're unlikely to find anything that resembles that on there:

https://www.spectrum-cycles.com/

marqueemoon

Here's a crappy camera phone pic from my ride on Saturday. This is Logboom Park at the North end of Lake Washington.

DasProfezzional

Now hold on a second there, skippy. I like that bar. A flipped rizzzer bar, is it?

kludge

sorta. they arent nitto's but nitto makes an alum version.

peep em at https://www.jitensha.com/

the nitto version has no rise/drop like these un's.
but any comfort bike bar flipped will do. just make sure they have a decent rise/drop

bikeage

wow, I don't know if you're joking around or not, but that is one of the most ignorant things I've ever read

kludge

hahah. i was wondering if anybody would pick up on that. im sorry but im laughing as i type this. i have bad humour judgements. occasionally i let the odd/tasteless humour free.

DasProfezzional

Quite. The slick bars drew my attention away from the text.

kludge

im a total jackass-its in my avatar. expect less?


btw, thanks daspro

Shiznaz

Yairi from the winter cycling forum posted his new winter rig. I thought it was so freaking sweet I took the liberty to cross post it here.

lvleph

It seems to me you were being sarcastic, and so I didn't say a word. And I am new.

vinnydelnegro

yeah...that's a pretty jackass thing to say, but i'm one too so i can relate. by the way, i know of people that have money that are hella stoopid and lazy too.

Fixxxie

Heres my Colnago Classic

evanyc

im all for conversions... but convert a ****ty road bike! not a totally sweet road bike! that's just painful

queerpunk

delightful!

Shiznaz

Jealous!

dirtyphotons

i'm generally of the "do what you want with your bike but that's not how i'd use it" camp. even with that there are exceptions (if i were slowly hoarding parts to build the bike up right, for instance). but yeah, i'm mostly just jealous.

endform

I would suggest normal chain rather than some ridiculously heavy bmx thing. If you're worried about breaking a chain put your mind to rest if you know how to properly install a chain.

andypants

As long as the bosses and cables guides stay on, I think it's ok. Though something inside me feels wrong seeing REALLY nice roads bikes as converts.

Still a sick bike.

dmc

Agreed, nice bike.

taken67

They have some at Velocipede, just picked one up in fact. They're not as shiny, though.

marqueemoon

Thanks. I took a second picture that showed the bike better, but this was by far the nicer of the two. It was about as nice a day for a ride as we've had in a month here in Seattle.

Shiznaz

I have that chain, its not alll that heavy, it looks super sweet, its the most adjustable chain on the market and damn its strong.

Again, I gotta say it.

Jealous!

evanyc

jealous that he's using that as a fixed gear? not at all.

jealous that he has an awesome road frame? yes.

perplexed about why he would turn it into an average conversion? oui.

i agree that people should simply enjoy their bikes and do what they want with them. i just know that if i had that bike, i'd get much more enjoyment out of it as a road bike, and riding a fixed bike that was meant to be fixed. as long as he doesn't do anything to **** it up and prevent it from being turned back into the road machine it was meant to be, then no harm no foul.

BostonFixed

Take your *****ing to the pista haters' thread.