Nice Things

[chicote]

Thanks @smoothsailor, that painting’s great!! I really like how you placed the left wing tip up along the edge of the body, that’s really nice. The machine is a Micky sharpz - I was told that for some time in the 90s he produced machines under the name “Mickey bee”, but I guess this machine doesn’t have give much evidence pointing one way or the other. 

[Double 0 Soul]

It's taken me nearly 3yrs but i've finally got the last few parts together to put the finishing touches to my RC200

1995 Syncros Ti bottom bracked arrived last week from Germany

..fitted those CBR cranks which Tilmann proxied for me

I switched the bronze Suntour XC Pro cages for these black cages from Velowizard in Berlin

..custom made head badge fitted, and it's done!

Edited October 3, 2022 by Double 0 Soul

[smoothsailor]

Very nice indeed.

 

pretty cool how you kept your final goal insight, and get there

[Double 0 Soul]

Thanks Paul.. there was a couple of things didn't quite go as planned..

I'd been hunting down black X-Lite Pivot Plugs to match the stem cap, i machined a little cable hanger for the Klampers out of aluminium while i waited for a pair to turn up, i planned on using the plugs to bolt the hanger to the frame through the hole from the brake bosses instead of using that^ shitty zip-tie.. i finally got a set

..but the outside diameter of the plugs overlaps the frame, it looks terrible so i bagged that idea off

^Still got my wrist strapped.. around 5weeks ago, i was involved in a hit and run with a black cab at 6am, he drove into me (i had my lights on) and just left me in the fucking road and drove off.. i've got a fractured scaphoid.. cnut!

Edited October 3, 2022 by Double 0 Soul

[MJF9]

^ what a c*** leaving you… hope it mends soon Neal

[Double 0 Soul]

Ikr! .. i was just riding along minding my own biz.. i was approaching a turn on my left but i was going straight forward, i heard a black cab coming up behind me (they've got a pretty distinctive engine sound and no other cars on the road at that time) next thing he was along side and turned left straight into me, knocked me off my bike and fucked off up the hill/left turn.

I had both front and back lights flashing.. he can't have not seen me?

Edited October 3, 2022 by Double 0 Soul

[MJF9]

He must have felt you even if he didn’t see you for some odd reason. Lucky you’re still with us and we remain at 20. Phew!

6am - late night or early start?

[Geeman]

Sorry to hear, but fucking great bike.

[Double 0 Soul]

Yeah.. i'm pretty chuffed with it!

1 hour ago, MJF9 said:

6am - late night or early start?

Early start.. my 13yr old stays out later than i do

[Double 0 Soul]

Mint condition.. vintage Brabantia bread bin i've just imported from NL for my missus's xmas prez

[busterthehuman]

Maybe a dumb question but do you actually put bread in there or is it for decoration? I've never had a bread box, but that one is beautiful! 

[shredwin_206]

I will also say never used one but that would make me want to start using one. 

[beautiful_FrEaK]

6 hours ago, busterthehuman said:

Maybe a dumb question but do you actually put bread in there or is it for decoration? I've never had a bread box, but that one is beautiful! 

Slide the lid upwards, put the bread in, slide the lid down.

[Double 0 Soul]

Yep, that's it, keeps your bread fresh.. they're not complicated.

We had a ceramic one with a ceramic lid but the lid slipped out of my hand when i picked it up.. it took a chip out of the corner of the bread bin and the lid cracked in half. i was going to make a replacement lid out of wood but couldn't motivate myself.. these^ vintage Brabantia are pretty hard to get hold of in the UK but they're 10 a'penny in some parts of Europe, i only paid £37 (inc tax) +£16 shipping with PostNL

[Talan]

On 12/17/2022 at 10:49 PM, Double 0 Soul said:

Mint condition.. vintage Brabantia bread bin i've just imported from NL for my missus's xmas prez

We had exactly the same metal breadbox at home in the USSR in the 1970s. Only cream-colored and with a floral design. 

[Double 0 Soul]

I wanted to get cream*.. this design but roll top

*just because our kitchen is f**ked and when i eventually motivate myself to put a new one in.. not much will clash with cream

Do you remember the 1980s Glasnost/Perestroika tee shirts @Talan ? we used to holiday in and around the Eastern Bloc when i was a kid.. just because it was cheap!

I wanted one so badly.. the imagery was so strong but my dad said "No! you're not walking around a politically sensitive country bearing a t-shirt slogan which none of us understand"

Pleeeease!

No!!

[Duke Mantee]

Me and my mate used to make those Perestroika tees - everyone wanted them. Used to wear them with Cruise own brand trousers and palladiums. Cool as f-ck

 

[MJF9]

^ if you have any pics, that'd be good for a yesteryear WAYWT mate

[Talan]

8 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

I wanted to get cream*.. this design but roll top

*just because our kitchen is f**ked and when i eventually motivate myself to put a new one in.. not much will clash with cream

Do you remember the 1980s Glasnost/Perestroika tee shirts @Talan ? we used to holiday in and around the Eastern Bloc when i was a kid.. just because it was cheap!

I wanted one so badly.. the imagery was so strong but my dad said "No! you're not walking around a politically sensitive country bearing a t-shirt slogan which none of us understand"

Pleeeease!

No!!

In fact, I don't remember such shirts... I don't think there were any in the USSR. In a sense, the ideas of perestroika and glasnost were more popular in the West than in the USSR. The West hoped that the USSR could become a normal country (as later events show, hopes are little justified for most of the former Soviet Union), while for us it was an opportunity to first read books by banned writers like Solzhenitsyn or Orwell, and then travel the world, not much besides. When so-called perestroika began, few believed the USSR would collapse in a few years. 
 

[Double 0 Soul]

I always assumed the folks i saw on my hols around that time were either young hip Soviets or young locals of the Eastern Bloc on their summer holidays (Yugoslavia.. Vlore/Albania) I wouldn't say they were westerners.. they could have been eastern europeans. I was only young.

The t-shirt sellers on the street would be selling them along side their other knock-off goodies.. so i always thought the craze had spread from Soviet hipsters to the west

Edited December 19, 2022 by Double 0 Soul

[Geeman]

4 hours ago, MJF9 said:

^ if you have any pics, that'd be good for a yesteryear WAYWT mate

Nearly a thread in its own right , WDYWYY.....

Do I  recall us posting photos of when we were nippers once?

[Double 0 Soul]

I think so.. were yours in black and white?

[Geeman]

Sepia....

[Double 0 Soul]

.. so do Afghan coats actually come from Kandahar? .. I bet if you ask an Afghan they’ll say the first person they saw wear one was Jimi Hendrix 

 

[Duke Mantee]

1 hour ago, Double 0 Soul said:

.. so do Afghan coats actually come from Kandahar? .. I bet if you ask an Afghan they’ll say the first person they saw wear one was Jimi Hendrix 

 

Yes … and no

Hungarian shepherd’s coat 1877

[Talan]

13 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

I always assumed the folks i saw on my hols around that time were either young hip Soviets or young locals of the Eastern Bloc on their summer holidays (Yugoslavia.. Vlore/Albania) I wouldn't say they were westerners.. they could have been eastern europeans. I was only young.

The t-shirt sellers on the street would be selling them along side their other knock-off goodies.. so i always thought the craze had spread from Soviet hipsters to the west

It is quite a stretch to rely Yugoslavia to Communist bloc. Yes, they named themselves a Socialist country, but they were opened to the West, travelled freely and so on. In fact, Tito was quite an enemy of Stalin in late 40s and Yugoslavia and USSR were pretty distanced since that time. Ironically, Serbia is under great influence of Moscow right now and serbs mostly support invasion of Ukraine.

[MJF9]

2 hours ago, Duke Mantee said:

Hungarian shepherd’s coat 1877

How did your coat go down on Sauchiehall Street Duke?

[Double 0 Soul]

Found some absolute bangers of 1980s Moscow hipsters from Dima Sabbats Punk Perestroika 80 collection

Punk and luber Moscow. 1987

Melky, Sabbat, Lebed’ in Red Square. Moscow. 1987

Eric Ershun. Kolya Kanotye by “El’f” cafe. Leningrad. 1987

[Talan]

1 hour ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Found some absolute bangers of 1980s Moscow hipsters from Dima Sabbats Punk Perestroika 80 collection

Punk and luber Moscow. 1987

Melky, Sabbat, Lebed’ in Red Square. Moscow. 1987

Eric Ershun. Kolya Kanotye by “El’f” cafe. Leningrad. 1987

Different scene here in Odessa, on the south, in 80s. Less striving for show-offs, more enjoying the simple pleasures of life, like wine, girls, sunshine, ...  Again, my town was a huge sea port, foreign trade hub, so we had access to Levis or Lee or Wrangler no problem.

Edited December 20, 2022 by Talan

[cheapmuthafukr]

What’s been keeping me going… vintage advent speakers, Breedlove premier jumbo, and vintage harmony tenor guitar.