i'm just waiting on a wheel build and a few parts from ebay for my first ss\fg build

frame and forks: pake 53 ( the worst of the bunch ) black

wheels: phil wood highs in 32 h, laced 3x with black dt DB spokes to black swiss dt rims

crank and BB: 70's vintage sugino mighty 171's with a 48t mighty comp chain ring ( i am polishing them up now) and a sugino super lap BB

bars and stem: nitto b200aa flat bar in black and a KTB mountain 2 bolt stem in polished alloy ( with Ti bolts i had laying around )

seat and post: white san marco regal ti and some full carbon stem ( might get a nice polished nitto one though )

pedals: right now white wellgo MG-1 mags but i think i'm gona get a set of vintage
NJS MKS UNIQUE ROYALs and some nice straps...

brakes: ULTEGRA 6500 XE up front and a nice little pauls e lever

head set: chirs king black 1" threadless

lots of black, polished alloy with a white seat and grips...

will post picks once i get the wheels back from my wheel guy!!



will post pics

Pics! Sounds expensive. I'm curious to see how it turns out.

will do as soon as i get all the bits together...
i sold a very trick and nice bmx in parts on ebay ( with enough Ti to start your own aerospace program) which has paid for 75% of this build ( this one still comes in as $1000 cheaper than the bmx)
and i have been lucky/patient on ebay and got what i wanted for what i wanted to pay!!
the phil woods cost me $250 US which is $250 cheaper than you could get em any where in australia and i think the sugino mighty's cost me around $50 US...

can't wait to get it rolling

personally would have put on some less expensive components at first and went for a nicer frame istead of the "worst of the bunch" pake.

i guess you could always move the parts over to a nicer frame, but who wants to put used parts on a nice frame?

That's a nice collection of parts. Good luck w/ the build. We expect to see pics of the completed bike.

pretty much just waiting for the wheels to bet built and the vintage pedals to arrive



ohhh the wait.....

tell UPS to drive faster!!!

wow, this sounds like itll be quite the build here. hope it ends up riding great and hope the parts come soon (waiting for that box to show up at your doorstep is so hard to do...)

got my msk unique royals today and my new stem!!! as you can see the royals are polishing up pretty nice
just have to find some clips and straps for em!!

as for the stem... the Ti hard ware i have lying around fits quite nicely but bens cycles in milwaukee ( quite a long way from me in sydney ) sent me a stem with the wrong face plate.!! they sent me a 26mm one which will not hold my nitto flat bar with out shimming and i don't wana get my shim on!
so at least the face plate has to travel half way round the world and they gota send me a new one!

same thing with the pauls lever i got thats in the post back to the USA cause i needed a 22.3mm clamp and they were outa stock so i got a 23.8mm ... hmmm more waiting!
the lever i can live with out the stem is another matter!

ohh well when things gota be just right you gota wait sometimes

anything but kashimax or gold plated toshis would let down all the other components, save the pake.

If the auzzie dollor picks it act up a bit that is the way to go!! Right now such a set of straps would cost me $200+ and for a few inchs of leather that's a lot of coin !! ( 1/4 of what an alien frame would cost me landed
I might cheap out for now but that will change in good time
Getting rolling in the mission right now should be another week for parts from the USA

just waiting for the rims to arrive from Melbourne should be here by Thursday then i drop em up to my mates shop.. this time next week i should be rolling...
i can't wait!!

ok so she lives....

specs, plans then pics....




ok so the frame is a 53mm pake and forks

wheels are phil wood highs laced 3x to DT RR 1.1s with 14g DT spokes in silver

brake is an ultegra been pulled right now by a primo lever

chris king 1" head set with ti bolt in the top and carbon spacers

KTB 110mm 7degree stem with ti bolts

nitto b200aa 500mm flat bars in black with shadow conspiracy grips in white

carbon seatpost with a san marco regal ti seat in white

1971 sugino mighty cranks 165mm with a 48t sugino mighty comp chain ring

sugino super lap 75 BB and MKS royal nuevo pedals

shamino 16t free wheel

Wippermann 1G8 chain...





so i am waiting on

sugino mighty comp 43t chain NOS chain ring
pauls e-lever
sugino mash cog set
and a nice set of toshi straps to go with the MKS unique royal pedals
and maybe an ultegra NJS seat post

pretty happy and can't wait to get the lower ratios and fixed stuff on the bike!

and yes that is a leopard print chaise lounge

hmmm shes 9.3kgs or 20.5lbs in old money...


bike porn/porn couch??

Wow, that came out nice. I would put a silver Nitto seatpost on it and call it a day. You should also look around for a nice old road frame with horizontal dropouts. Those parts would make for a very nice conversion.

looking at a nice shamino NJS post and i have a friend going to japan later in the year whos a fix head
gona try and get a few kerin frames...


thanks for the in.

i vote nay, but its clean.

new parts

toshi singles, sugino mash cog set, and vintage MKS unique royal pedals

looks nice, that chain looks beeeeeeeeeeffy.

nice bucket! nice build too.

good to see you're rocking a brake.

that is a pretty wide handlebar.

how is the saddle?

the saddle is pretty sweet just doesn't like my fav black jeans so much
The bars are 500 mm wide and feel pretty good, I'm to old for super narrow bars!

its time to upgrade the frame!

In september a mate is going to japan so a kerin frame set could be a go!

its only right. on paper, the frame really sticks out, but enjoy the ride!