thewilson 

Forgive the potato phone: taking the wabi out for the first time in a long time, feels good, man.

velomite

Sold the Histogram and built this up, a nice subtle bike for campus.

JamesCraps

lots of nice bikes on this page

Cortet

Decided to spray paint my Felt in hopes of something new....well, to say the least I got something new.
Not incredibly happy with it, seems too flat. Any suggestions?

Scrodzilla

Yikes.

Jared.

Where in NJ?

Noli Timere

North of you. Bergen County.

heymatthew

New frame. Nah, I kid... But seriously though. New frame.

Mumonkan

nah, new bike.

TejanoTrackie 

Left hand drive. ?

Leukybear 

I thought that was a bareknuckle with that shade of baby blue...

Cortet

I looked up & read about left hand drive & seen it could unthread my sprocket (Unless I have a proper track hub/lock ring which it seems like I do have a stock track ring on the back), but it could be unthreading my pedals as well. I'll have to go to my LBS and ask some more about that along with researching more. Thanks for pointing that out though, didn't really pay much attention to it. Still learning & very green


As far as ditching this one & getting a new bike, I tried. It followed me home...so it seems we'll be together for some more time. Right now it would seem my options are going to some where to get it professionally painted, trying to change up the color scheme; hub color, seat, forks, handlebar, etc.

&No sir, it's a Felt Broughham. To be honest I made the mistake of sanding it down first when I took it apart for the first time to clean it & didn't put much thought into what happens if my only option was a rattle can. You live & learn.

Scrodzilla

I honestly didn't even notice the left-hand drive because I was too blown away by other aspects.

Is anyone going to ask why the seat is slammed all the way down and the handlebar on backward? Fine, I will. Why is your seat slammed all the way down and you handlebar on backward?

Cortet

The seat is slammed down because I haven't adjusted it since I had taken it apart. As for the handlebar, out of it being that way and flipped the other way, I found it more comfortable. I would like to try out other handle bars, I find my lower back hurts from my commute & the positioning with the handle bar probably doesn't help. I'll probably refer to the 'still green & learning' again, but I suppose I could only play that card so many times...

TejanoTrackie 

^^^You need to read this thread:

https://www.bikeforums.net/singlespee...ead-first.html

bro

dis is tight

Soo__Fuego

^^^^ Hell yeah

TejanoTrackie 

As you may recall, I bought this bike on closeout from bd last December for the paltry sum of $180, including Texas state sales tax. Other than swapping out the stock 16T freewheel for a more useful Shimano 18T I had in my parts bin and adding a water bottle cage I also had on hand, I've otherwise left the bike stock and not spent a dime on it. The bike rides really nicely, but I felt the stock 700x25C tires, which are actually only 23mm wide, provided too harsh a ride for what I regard as a casual town bike. I just realized that the solution was to take the wheels on my Vilano, which I hardly ever use, and swap them with those on the Clockwork. Those wheels are the originals from my Moto Messenger, which now sports some Velomine wheels with Velocity deep V rims, and the tires are 700x32C Kenda Kwik Roller Sport folders that were the originals on my Kilo WT. The rims are Weinmann ZAC1800 that are a good 3mm wider than the Alex Rims R500 rims on the wheels that came on the Clockwork, so they are ideal for wider tires. The 32mm tires barely clear the brake calipers and the wider rims require the calipers to be opened to their maximum in order the provide a couple of mm gap for the brake pads. Needless to say, the ride is much plusher with the fatter tires. I've rotated the bars up a bunch so that the tops are like mini-bullhorns with end brake levers, and I never ride any part of the bars below the brake levers, so I could chop them off below that point and never miss them. I may eventually convert to a townie bar setup, but for now am satisfied to keep the cost under $200.

iTripped

And here I thought tri-guys were the only weirdos with no personal sanitation...

triumph.man

new handlebars



Timere, where in Bergen?? I'm from Edgewater

SquidPuppet

Why do those spokes look like 12 gauge?

triumph.man

Maybe the lighting? They are 14 gauges I believe. CXP22 laced w/ DT Champions.

SquidPuppet

Weird. Do you notice in the pic too, or is it just my eyes? They look almost as thick as the brake cable.

Carcosa

Picked this up off Craigs for a good price today.

bro

mmmmmmmmm

needs dorps