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- vaxorcist0
How's the crank? It looks like it has cotter pins.... they tend to get slippy on me on my old bikes.....
My current fixie has a sugino crank replacing the original untight messy one... huge difference in ride and power feeling....
- I had all the problem in the world to take out the cotter, I will see if I need to order a new onegeorgesIII
- cotters suck! get a new COTTERLESS crank... sugino or shimano 105vaxorcist
- georgesIII0
Ok, I'm almost there,
the frame is polished completely and I would like to clean it up before starting painting.Is there some product I should use or I can go for the normal soap + water team?
- ntslide0
That frame has some really nice (ornamental) component-based joint sections. On the seatpost, headstem, and crank assemblies. Don't know if you feel so ambitious but they'd look pretty amazing if you masked them off and had them bare metal against whatever color the frame you decide. It will definitely provide a nice tie-in accent given the bare metal handlebars, seatpost etc. Just caught my eye...
- cannonball19780
*beats off in corner furiously*
- acescence0
that's not aluminum, it's steel.
- aaaaaaargh, the fucker lied to me, I'll ask for my 20 euros back :)
georgesIII - well, it's important as you'd treat aluminum differently than steelacescence
- can you give me some tips, I've worked an entire week on it, I don't want to fuck it up now
georgesIII - steel is better than alu if you're just cruising around. way classier and more durable.iCanHasQBN
- and typically a smoother rideacescence
- and aluminumum gets weird if scratched hard...vaxorcist
- aaaaaaargh, the fucker lied to me, I'll ask for my 20 euros back :)
- chalk0
Pick your own fucking bike color, dude!
- JK. Silver is the best, IMO.chalk
- I'm kinda scare it will be dull,
I rather go for a matte black than a silver,georgesIII
- JackRyan0
Go to an auto paint supply store and ask for a wax remover/degreaser. You'll want to prime it with self-etching primer as well.
- JackRyan0
Wax remover/degreaser: http://www.repaintsupply.com/pd_…
Self etching primer: http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProd…
- flashbender0
paint that shit GOLD!
- cuke4260
you should take it and get it powder coated, it will be like $100 and be way better than spray paint(that's what youre using right?) both aesthetically and with regard to durability
- wayyyy over budget,
if I wanted to invest that much I would have bought a newer 2nd hand bike :)georgesIII
- wayyyy over budget,
- 10g00
- acescence0
take off the bottom bracket and headset, wash and degrease it, hang it, prime it, wait 24 hours and then sand it with really fine sandpaper, wash it, then put on your paint, sand with superfine paper and wash between coats, clearcoat it.
- acescence0
if it were actually aluminum, i'd say get it media blasted (sand blasting would heat the frame and potentially warp it) and just polish it and don't do a thing to it. but you can't do that with steel because it'll rust :(
- goldieboy0
http://14bikeco.wordpress.com/ca…
Colour schemes. Nice looking bike georgesIII... looking forward to seeing the finished bike.
- Knuckleberry0
- get it powder coated
- as for wheels i love Mavics
- brakes - Campy?
- brigtick0
looking good georges.
mavic open pros have a good rep for being nice 700c wheels, but in reality i doubt it matters a goddam what brand of wheels you get, if you're not racing. something like these would probably be fine, for $125/pair:
http://www.pricepoint.com/detail…
dono what sort of cassette you're planning to put on there tho.
- pretty neat,
I was thinking in keeping the original wheels and just getting some white tires, italian stylegeorgesIII - lightweight new wheels feel sooooo nice... old ones may never gonna be trued round enough...vaxorcist
- pretty neat,