ColourPak custom tinted.
from Colour Plus.

they mix a custom colour for you and put it in a spray can.

looks really nice for a can job

Mel wrote: Coolies. Is it a spray can jobbie? Last frame I did took aaaages to harden - it sucked. Nice colour choice though.

When you getting the mary bars?

tiz a can jobbie, it was just to get rid of that god-awful look that it had before

i had 3 fan heaters cranking their asses off all last night so it hardened bloody nicely.




and mary bars? when i have some money

My Switchback, in its current singlespeed configuration :

just took my ss for its first spin in its new clothes, and it feels so much better!....like it did before
looks good though

mikey wrote: and heres the semi finished product.
everything is just sitting at the moment just waiting on a coupla bits to complete it


but....YFY!

Very very nice mikey. Looks great!

its going to have a lovely bolt on single track (overkill) front wheel fairly soon and hoping for a proper ss rear wheel in the not so distant future .....or i could just buy a specific ss frame and bling components

That looks like a pretty heavy duty singlespeed you've got there Edward. I like it!

johntus wrote: That looks like a pretty heavy duty singlespeed you've got there Edward. I like it!

I was collecting together parts to build a heckler or similar using the switchback frame, but busted a shifter so decided to go singlespeed for the winter at least.

Kind of a trail/light freeride singlespeed

If anything, I am faster on it as I was prone to granny grinding*.

*um. can I take that back?

has everyone seen the "ghost gear" thread???

check it out. who will be the first???? ???? ?? ? ?? shift111!!

http://www.vorb.org.nz/ftopic-41219-15.html

Henry Dorset Case wrote: has everyone seen the "ghost gear" thread???

check it out. who will be the first???? ???? ?? ? ?? shift111!!

http://www.vorb.org.nz/ftopic-41219-15.html

As I already run 32:16 as a 'magic gear', I insist that you try it first, HDC

Here is the latest incarnation of my old Steel hardtail. Now relegated to "the bike I ride to the pool, or the shops", running 44:18, spent a little while getting the chainline perfect. I like the 2.5" hookworms, phat as hell
(I got another SS project going on in the garage for off-road use, since I realised this one here has all the lightweight properties of rock)

dented wrote: (I got another SS project going on in the garage for off-road use, since I realised this one here has all the lightweight properties of rock)

Won't the porky nature be due to the hookworms?

Run some Krads/motos, or if you want lighter, speshy hemispheres and your bike will be transformed.

Like 1.5kg lighter transformed.

finished building it this morning and took it for a spin round town

YdOpen frame
pikes (wound down to 120mm), juicys and front wheel off the AC (can only ride one bike at a time anyway )
may get rid of the red tyre one day but it keeps the rim off the ground for now
and i now need to start aquiring brownie points so i can get it its very own forks front brake and wheel


*Edit* that is an extremely bad pic will get a better one later

is that your practice wallride in the background? why arent there pink lines at head height ?

pissface wrote: is that your practice wallride in the background? why arent there pink lines at head height ?

it is indeed a magnificently ghetto wall ride.
and i can get the wheels just onto the concrete but no way i am going near the brakes while i am up there have had a spill off it once and is not something i want to do again