Orrery

SO GOOD!

Here's more of the same

Random parts bin bike. Fear the pink derailleur!

IMAG0390 by orrery84, on Flickr

Maybe it's a bit long. Gentle curves and low friction concept.

http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/shift-housing-length

How much should I remove?

finished building my RB-1

IMG_1697 by orrery84, on Flickr

deets

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continuing the theme, a tourbus in pyongyang took a wrong turn and western journalists were on board

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/north-korean-press-bus-takes-a-wrong-turn-opening-another-crack-in-the-hermit-kingdom/255955/

Looking forward to sunday.

NYtimes has an article about the first few episodes. sad to say I am one of those D&D geeks who is satisfied by plentiful breasts and buttocks.

I got that from Bert Krak a few months ago.

i've had good experience with retro-gression.com for parts. a kilo tt ain't so bad either.

That would be pretty cool.

Here's another possibility. For commuting I wouldn't go for a road bike; I would get a late 80's/early 90's hybrid. Miyata Triplecross, Trek 720/750, etc. etc. Plenty of room for fenders/ big tires/ racks/ etc. These things go hella cheap on CL, especially compared to comparable road bikes.

Also they are easy to convert to drop bars/ moustaches so they don't look super dorky.

Here's mine

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that's a hot bike.

Travelling to get tattoed ups my endurance. At home the longest I ever sat was four hours. Last weekend I travelled to Boston to finish my sleeve. Just the extra "this is it" feeling from going adds endurance. Sat 7 1/2 hours the first day, 3 the second day to finish. It sucked. But it is done!

Just curious, where in Boston did you go?

Great thread.

ahoj. neat bike.

as for commuting definitely get as much lighting as possible. Don't ride all the way jammed to the curb. try to stay more than a door length away from parked cars.

Glad to see some activity in this thread. I guess it's warming up outside for the new season which is cool.

Love that Peugeot. That's definitely my favorite color scheme of theirs. Spiedel components?

Here's my recent eBay purchase. Screw jawns. I'm becoming an iBOB.

1992 Bridgestone RB-1 by orrery84, on Flickr

I started watching 15min in and was verily confused.

Dig the orange. Would love a bike like that someday.

don't be afraid to admit it. downton abbey ftw.

I like Eagle Rare (single barrel offering from Buffalo Trace). Pretty damn reasonable price-wise. Buffalo Trace is great too. I need to pick up some more bourbon.

It should if it has a Shimano/SRAM freehub.

Looks sharp. I think you'll like the Nitto better; they are definitely high quality. Ride the hell out of it!

You can get Kilo TT's shipped from bikesdirect.com (actually that's the only place you can get them); the Motobecane Track is a bit cheaper ($280) and has a chromoly frame (not sure about the fork). That one has a minimalist paint job that might appeal to you.

One other thing to consider is I think the E-levers have somewhat less leverage than full sized handles; should be fine for a fixed gear but might be dicey on a SS.

It should get you where you need to go. If you can save up a bit longer I would get a Kilo TT; the frame is at least chromoly (Reynolds, even) instead of hi-ten steel, so it makes a better building block for future upgrades.

I've never used the paul e-levers, but I would probably go with some Tektros or something that are really functional and much cheaper, and put the saved money into a better frame. That said I do lust after many Paul components, such as thumbies and canti brakes.

^ Thanks for the tip. I like the ATK stuff; plus the studio/test kitchen is 5 min from my apt.

Just got a sweet programmable slow cooker for Xmas. Got some Cook's Illustrated weekday chili cooking.

+3 on the forschner fibrox knives.