Your latest bike purchase?

[hozn]

My new frame arrived.

[GB]

We’ve been waiting to see it because you wanted fancy paint, and now you tease us with that little avenger’s a on the front. More Pics!

[hozn]

@GB 121491 wrote:

We’ve been waiting to see it because you wanted fancy paint, and now you tease us with that little avenger’s a on the front. More Pics!

Heh, yeah. The others didn’t work in this light, but I will take more soon I’m quite impressed with the finish quality of this frame — seems a little better attention to detail and the interior of the frame looks really clean, compared to my current one. I’m also psyched for the fully internal cable routing (current one runs brake line externally). I’m waiting on a 25ft roll of Jagwire housing before I build it up / move over my components.

[americancyclo]

@hozn 121490 wrote:

My new frame arrived.

Hozn is selling a bike!?

[hozn]

@americancyclo 121497 wrote:

Hozn is selling a bike!?

No, I don’t think so. I might give away a too-large disc frame without a fork, though. Kinda one of those things you get for free that makes you spend hundreds of dollars.

[americancyclo]

@hozn 121500 wrote:

No, I don’t think so. I might give away a too-large disc frame without a fork, though. Kinda one of those things you get for free that makes you spend hundreds of dollars.

You’re gonna make someone else buy a full frame just for the fork?

[hozn]

@americancyclo 121501 wrote:

You’re gonna make someone else buy a full frame just for the fork?

Yes! — though I kinda regretted not paying the $150 for another fork when I ordered this one, since a disc fame*set* is a lot more useful than a forkless frame. I will probably just keep the frame in the attic as a spare in case I break my new one.

[Harry Meatmotor]

Ordered today:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]9279[/ATTACH]

#CROSSISCOMING

Will be running white bartape, saddle, some gumwall challenge grifos, and eventually purple ano Tune seatpost and stem… might eventually lace up a set of chi-chi wheels with purple White Ind. hubs laced to polished Velocity Airlerons – WOOT!

[Harry Meatmotor]

and because it’s perfectly acceptable to photochop what you want your new ride to become in an effort to kill the time it took for the big red S to get them in stock:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]9280[/ATTACH]

[hozn]

@Harry Meatmotor 121578 wrote:

challenge grifos, and eventually purple ano Tune seatpost and stem… might eventually lace up a set of chi-chi wheels with purple White Ind. hubs laced to polished Velocity Airlerons – WOOT!

That is a damn sexy build. Expected nothing less.

So no tubeless? Or are you running tubular (initially)? I have heard mediocre things about the ailerons, but I can’t think of another all-silver rim to suggest instead. Unless the SL25 comes in a polished finish? (The Archetype does come in a polished finish, which might be another good option.). You could save a few hundred dollars (I am guessing) and go with purple Hope hubs too.

[dplasters]

@Harry Meatmotor 121578 wrote:

Ordered today:

[ATTACH=CONFIG]9279[/ATTACH]
…some gumwall challenge grifos, and eventually purple ano Tune seatpost and stem… might eventually lace up a set of chi-chi wheels with purple White Ind. hubs laced to polished Velocity Airlerons

I showed this sentence to my wife and asked her to interpret. She believes every few words you just decided to mash the keyboard and insert random phrases.

What is a purple White????

[hozn]

@dplasters 121609 wrote:

What is a purple White????

Heh. That’s “White Ind.” = “White Industries”. A purple WI hub.

[IMG]http://bikearlingtonforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9282&stc=1[/IMG]

I think we should officially designate Harry Meatmotor as the Arbiter of Style.

[mstone]

@hozn 121621 wrote:

Heh. That’s “White Ind.” = “White Industries”. A purple WI hub.

[IMG]http://bikearlingtonforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=9282&stc=1[/IMG]

I think we should officially designate Harry Meatmotor as the official Arbiter of Style.

My daughter would love that, but I’m not spending that kind of coin on a kids’ bike.

[Harry Meatmotor]

@hozn 121589 wrote:

That is a damn sexy build. Expected nothing less.

So no tubeless? Or are you running tubular (initially)? I have heard mediocre things about the ailerons, but I can’t think of another all-silver rim to suggest instead. Unless the SL25 comes in a polished finish? (The Archetype does come in a polished finish, which might be another good option.). You could save a few hundred dollars (I am guessing) and go with purple Hope hubs too.

I like the idea of the CLD interface better than the ISO 6 bolt standard – but I’ll need to take measurements/mockup the white CLD hubs. sometimes there’s clearance issues (and supposedly Specialized Crux bikes are not so CLD friendly…). I’d have to dig for the purple ano Hopes, QBP doesn’t stock them, I don’t think… as far as tubeless, that’s something I’d like to start to tinker with. I’m watching November’s blog carefully; dave and mike are screwing around with a bunch of tires, and I’m wont to see what they like, or better still, what takes a good thrashing.

[Harry Meatmotor]

@dplasters 121609 wrote:

…you just decided to mash the keyboard and insert random phrases.

challenge accepted!!!

so, in a former life, I had a SAS’ed ’91 Yota PU on 37″ IROKs on 2.5″ BS’d steelies, running RUFs, AllPro 3″ leafs out back, rotated steering box (sleeved and plated frame rails), Allpro Hi-steer, 1-ton rod ends, 27 Spline Longfields, Performance 300M 27 spline inners, an ARB’d 8″ up front, Aussie Locker out back, 5.29’s, Marlin twin-sticked duals(2.28s in both cases), Budbuilt t-case skid, a DOA 22re-RV, bored 050 over, hypereutectic pistons, moly rings, ported head, steel backed TC guides, 270 cam, 2×2 .25 wall sliders, 2″ .125 wall DOM tube bed, AllPro front bumper, HAD dual cardan rear shaft, 2″ trailer-hitch long travel front shaft…

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