Posts Tagged ‘north’
May 4, 2011
Tim commutes on an old geared 90′s mountain bike nicknamed the “Monster Truck” and he came to me wanting something special as a second bike. He wanted a track frame for the road and something thats light, fast and a lot of fun, something thats a real contrast to his everyday ride, in his words “I want this one to be like a Ferrari in my shed”.
It’s got a sweet bar/stem combo, dropped seat stays, track ends with built in adjusters and I love the paint, every time I look at it reminds me of a Pantone swatch book. The frame is now waiting in the ‘shop for a full build…
Looking good, Tim. Shouts out to Tom Donhou on this one… It’s great to see new builders prosper.
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Tags:artisan, braze, builder, custom, donhou, fillet, frame, norfolk, north, steel
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April 11, 2011
There they were, blasting along gravel roads, the odd bit of pavé and what were meant to be ‘mud tracks’ and not a grimace in sight, not even the hint of one. To be honest hell looked pretty good to me. Even a fellow who had encountered 4 punctures in his first 50km was as chipper as Gene Kelly underneath an umbrella. Hellish? Hmm, *looks left to right* not round here.
Hold tight for a full report and a stash of photographs over at Rapha later this the week.
Big thanks go out to Joe and Kieran.
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Tags:britain, cycling, event., hell, hertfordshire, hotn, london, north, photography, race, rapha, report, ride, road, sportive, uk
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March 18, 2011
I know Sparky wanted something special so he got an integrated seat post with custom expanding seat post stub to allow some adjustment should he change his seat or such things. Being a fair weather bike his bottom bracket got pretty heavily drilled and I carried this through to other areas such as the seat tube sleeve and modified Columbus Max crown. Yep couldn’t leave it alone, so I filled the window and drilled the tangs to make sure it tied in perfect with the frame.
The other main feature of this bike is the internal cable routing, with the rear brake cable exiting the rear of the seat tube, the rear derailleur cable exiting the bottom of the seat stay and the front derailleur cable coming straight out the back of the bottom bracket shell. Finished with a mix of Campagnolo parts this is one awesome road machine.
Yes it is, it’s a beaut. Donhou, it’s fair to say that you are currently ‘smashing it’. That’ll be street slang for ‘doing really well’. I think a trip to the workshop is on the cards. Congrats also to Sparkes, this is one lovely piece of kit you have, pal.
Donhou.
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Tags:aero, artisan, builder, columbus, donhou, fabricate, integrated, max, north, racer, road, sparky, steel, uk
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December 1, 2010
Spotted.
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Tags:britain, classic, colour, england, lo pro, mercian, north, photograph, rourke, scan, time trial, tt, uk, vintage
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June 22, 2010
Ricky from Feather cycles is killing it. I thought his initial offerings were good but these are serious, Feather’s gone from strength to strength!
Just peep his latest offerings, I think you’ll agree that he’s doing an utterly fantastic job and that green Rando is straight off the hook ( street slang for really good ).
I certainly know where I’ll be going for my custom roady! You do me nice price?
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Tags:braze, custom, cycles, feather, fillet, fixed, gt, leeds, modern, north, pista, rando, singlespeed, steel, track, triple triangle
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