Seeing the photo of @frank_doktor’s IRO GB frame made me think we need a track bike thread for nostalgia reasons… and to remind ourselves that anything 700x23 and smaller is and always will be trash.
So dig back in those flickr archives or dust off your zip drives and post them up.
Gianni Motta with harlequin bar wrap that took a week of evenings and at least a six pack to finish. The C-Record sheriff stars may be part of my retirement plan.
And an OG 1" HT blacked out EAI Bareknuckle. I was an idiot and paid to have the cranks and hubs anodized black… Sugino released a stock black crank a year later. I think Miche eventually did the same with the hubs.
I’ve had people in all seriousness ask if he’s a Portland framebuilder (He’s making frames again, too, but it looks like it’s just bmx & bmx26, not any triple triangles) and I’ve had to point out that he’s the GT in GT.
These are all current bikes, planning on keeping them until my midlife crisis, when I’ll be laying my nuts on the stem and throwing down skids like the early 2000s never died
Brain Kenevans was great, sold to a friend who got in a pile up racing it shortly after and tangled with a new build Kenevans and both frames were wrecked. ;(
Hell yeah, some Ourys! There is a serious lack of NJS grips and top tube pads in here though.
I found a photo of my original conversion circa 2001 or '02. It had one of those ultra cheap Suzue Basic hubs that Sheldon sold through Harris. I packed it with toothpaste when I first got it, rode for a bit then replaced with grease… I don’t think it really helped. The M646s were responsible for more than a handful of pedal strikes and embarrassing episodes of dragging the bike to the sidewalk after picking myself up.
Man, I just looked through some old pictures. I can’t tell if my bikes or my bicycle photography is worse. Can’t find any examples of my sweet fixie when they were in their best forms though…