Leukybear 

I use a fork. /serious

Just take any old fork and bend one of the outer food stabbing ends straight.

63_dorinte

Just curious, do the GR9 end caps press in or screw in? I have looked at pics on google, but I can't tell. Looks like they have small holes like the late 1980s Campagnolo crank dust caps that screw in (there is a tool for those too ).

Leukybear 

Press in.

Said dust cap:

seanile

the ones i have don't have those little holes.. i had to dig at the edge with a mini flathead screwdriver

cali_axela

Nice, thanks for the heads up. Really tempted by this rootbeer v5...

diff

Go for it man. Cutters are awesome. There wont be another cutter fiesta on eBay for a while. If ever.

I really like the stickers on the v5.

The devil put those there for me because now I am having second thoughts on the color. Almost every cutter in existance is available. Its nuts. I have been watching eBay for a long time. Checking for cutters v5 and older. Here and there they would have a used one. Sometimes new. Then one day someone dropped like 30.cutters from v1 on. Pretty fun.

Crandrew

a couple new things:
Nitto Horns



and

8bits

to resolve this problem:


+ this system of water bottle holder:

Scrodzilla

Man, that sucks. I wanted to use a 25 Vittoria Diamante Pro on the front of my Gara but had to use a 23 because of the same problem.

ColonelJLloyd 

These

IthaDan 

650b conversion?

8bits

Tell me about it! Bought 2 pairs of GP4000S's and now I can only use them at the rear

ColonelJLloyd 

Uh huh. Paul hubs/Synergy rims. Nuovo Record crankset with polished 50t track ring. Going on this '72 Bottecchia Professional. It had terrible paint so I stripped and spray bombed it a while back. It turned out alright.

ddeadserious

"it turned out alright"

lol that looks beautiful, especially for a spray bomb job.

Mumonkan

Love it, is it just me/camera angle or are the chainstays bowed out?

ColonelJLloyd 

Thanks. The whole frame is chromed, but not highly polished so I used DupliColor Metalcast "Smoke Anodized" color. I think I applied it too thick to get the desired effect, but it's all good.

There's something awry with that pic, yeah. Check out the non-drive side fork blade.

I used this liquid masking stuff around the lugs and that worked out well.



The fork was off about 10 degrees so I had Frank The Welder correct that. There were like 3 coats of spray bomb paint that came off easily. The original primer? That was pretty tough stuff.

Singlespeed92

New 29"er SS project bike (it's mostly all there,about 90% complete,just not all in this pic)

Ann.Occupanther

No more cold hands. Thanks Scrod!

cali_axela

Soma Urban Pursuit bullhorns. I never use the drops on my commuter, but want more hand positions than a riser... hopefully this is the best of both worlds, never used this style bar before.

FixedDriveJess

I bought a 60mm Soma Shotwell stem for my Bianchi Pista. Works well even with a bushing. Much better than the 120 I previously had..!

Scrodzilla

apollored

Because being a total chump I laid my bike down on a break during our night ride on Tuesday night and when I picked it up again to head back failed to ensure the D Lock which was hanging off the handlebars had come up with the rest of the bike.

And on top of that didnt notice till the next day so by the time I could cycle back up there to find it someone else had helped themselves. Tho what use it was to them with no keys not sure.


Prize doh!

Leukybear 

I think it would've been a better idea to have gotten another D lock....

sinikl

Nitto UI85 stem, 90mm gold anodized
tange headset 1in threadless, gold ano
clear track grips (to show off my gold-ano origin8 bullhorn)

All this for an orange Kilo TT (which EpicSchwinn has said reminds him of McDonald's, but so be it)

yes, i am having fun buying gold anodized stuff.

EpicSchwinn

But seriously - If you like it, go for it!