Random Photo Thread!

[fast14riot]

I knew a guy who said eye-talian, it always cracked me up. He spelled Brian Brain too, lol.

I pronounced the word polish in some bizarre manner on my last video so I can't say much... I was out of breath though, lol. Polish, lmao

Yeah, I caught that little slip up. You know the word "polish" is the only one in english which changes meaning and pronunciation when when you capitalize it! Polish and polish, random factoid of the day.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming...

-X

 

[flatblackcapo]

This is where my screen name came from.

AARRRRRR,I need to wrap my bars!

 

[Bako]

Yup. That's what I thought.

Have you tried the Kierin-style rubber grips? I use them on a set of flat bars I cut down, with a Paul Components E-Lever. I'm over using my connective tissue as brakes.

 

[fast14riot]

I use the rubber kierin grips on my Miyata Pista with Nitto track drop bars. I swear, Kevin and I must be the only two track bike riders in town that still use drop bars and not a flat bar or ugly bmx riser bar! Pisses me off to no end to see all these trendy kids taking nice vintage bikes and spray painting them all crazy colors, throwing a fixed rear wheel on it, riser bars and then only practice riding wheelies.


-Xander

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

You guys would like Durango, it has something like the highest concentration of bike shops in the US! I know a lot of Olympic Cyclists train here, mountain and road biking are both huge. I'm not sure now but the whole boulder hopping thing was big too, bikes with no seats, I don't know the term.

 

[fast14riot]

Trials riding, is what it's called, there are some really crazy guys out there.

The Olympic Training Center is in Colorado, which makes sense, training at high altitude is far superior to taining at sea level, you condition your body to working with reduced oxygen so when you go back to sea level your oxygen intake is higher and you have more stamina. The track racing is fun to watch, especially the pursuit racing, two guys start at opposite sides of the track, and whoever catches the other first wins! Time trials are crazy, too.


-Xander

 

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

I have seen some wild stuff with the trials riding! Cool to watch.

The big race here is the Iron Horse, Bike vs Train! I was a vendor at it a few time, talk about impressive.

 

[fast14riot]

The "Death Ride" is the big one here, so popular they have a lottery for the entry. 15,000 feet of climbing, 5 mountain passes over 8500 feet, 129 miles. Serious torture.


-X

 

[flatblackcapo]

Bako,no I have never tried the Kierin grips. I have always used cloth bar tape on my track bikes.Paul parts are niiiiiice stuff . I wanted to get a set of the Paul cranks but never got around to it.
Xander,I still want to do that temp trade with our track bikes .
Y'all have a good one !

 

[fast14riot]

Ok, I finally got the Miyata Pista out of the garage, fixed the flat tire and cleaned it up. I hate fixing flats, I usually just grab another bike, lol!

1986 Miyata Pista, Tange triple butted tubing. Hard to see in these pics, but the paint is actually pearlescent just like the Cadillacs. Original paint. I had a matching front wheel, which I custom built, but when the bike got stolen some years ago this is the wheel that was on it when Kevin got it back for me. He's a big ugly hippie, he just scared the poor kid off the bike and called me to tell me he got it back.

This is the sweetest, smoothest, most excellent riding bike I have owned, it is just an extension of my body when riding it!

Bako, this one's for you

I have been looking for another rim to match the rear, the white rim was never available in th US, I imported these from England 7 or 8 years ago, so trying to find amatching one is proving difficult. I may just go for a black one and paint it. It needs new tires too.


-Xander

 

[fast14riot]

Here is the next project, this one is or the wife. Good thing about this frame is even though its French, they used English standard threads. The French threads were both normal right hand threads on the botom bracket, so as you pedaled it unscrewed one side, silly Frenchies. English threads were right/left so they always tightened as you pedaled if things got loose.

-Xander

 

[Bako]

Man, I love the forks on NJS bikes.

I've recovered a half dozen stolen bikes, most with the old "You ain't ridin' *anywhere*, boss." technique, and one at gunpoint when a bunch of Morroccans pulled knives on me. I once saw a guy from about fives blocks away, riding what was obviously my stolen customized Hoo Koo ee Koo and caught up to him and threatened him off my bike. Cops came, pulled me off the guy and impounded my bike till I could gin up a fake receipt. I was riding the bike my insurance had bought me days earlier when it happened- so now I had TWO fly MTBs!

Bike thieves piss me off.

Oh, and don't hate on the flat bars! I'm no freestyling doofus on a dumpster bike with a stripped cog and lockring! Just an ex courier with two broken cervical vertebrae who can't ride drops any more! :d

 

[fast14riot]

I'm not hatin' on the flat bars, you have a decent, modern frame, I think they're fine on bikes like yours. Its when I see the kid with a flanel shirt, jeans too tight for a chick, big rimmed glasses (with no lenses) and a classic late 60's early 70's Bertin, or Olmo, Boteccia, Mercian, 3Rensho, Bridgestone, Miyata, Nishiki, I could keep going, and then rattle can it purple right over the decals, never take it apart to paint it, throw some deep-V wheels on it, cheap BMX bars or flat bars, and sit in the coffee shop parking lot all day doing backwards circles or wheelies only to catch the bus to get home. Ride the damn bike, respect the classics man! /rant.

I can't tell you how many times I wanted to just walk up, slap the fake glasses right off their face and tell them they don't deserve a bike like this, lol! Call me the bike nazi! Classics are getting harder to find, and more are getting stolen for this fad.


-X

 

[Bako]

LOL!

350 dollar Deep Vs on a dumpster Huffy!

Yup- I see 'em too- little girl jeans-wearing hipsterbots with their Aerojokes and black Chuck Taylors. I'm always tempted to tell them that the very paragon of uncool- "P Diddy"- rides a Vigorelli.

But then, I'm that guy who always gets a kick out of telling hippies that their beloved Birkenstock viciously eliminated competitors to obtain the rights to make shiny leather jackboots for Hitler's SS. Their little faces just fall...

 

[Bako]

E-Lever! I really like Paul's rasta derailleurs. If I were to own such things, it would be those.

 

[fast14riot]

That's one sexy lever, lol! I had some Paul cantilever brakes on my old Marin Pine Mountain, freakin ridiculous stopping power for a cantilever brake!

Ok, enough bike porn, here's a random photo of my morning coffee. The best coffee shop in town is a mere 400 feet from my front door!

-Xander

 

[fast14riot]

That's one sexy lever, lol! I had some Paul cantilever brakes on my old Marin Pine Mountain, freakin ridiculous stopping power for a cantilever brake!

Ok, enough bike porn, here's a random photo of my morning coffee. The best coffee shop in town is a mere 400 feet from my front door!

-Xander

 

[Johnbeck180]

Here's some other things me and my dad do in our spare time. This was a 1979 Ford F600, it was a fire truck, we took the water tank and pump off. Turned into a Frame off resto. It is 100% back together now I just don't have a picture of it. The only thing we want to do now is replace the hubs and bearings so we can retro fit some 10 lug Alcoa semi truck rims and tires on it. That will make it look soooo sweet!

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Were helping my uncle redo his fathers 64 Ford, these pics are only about a week old. This was also a frame off resto, we sent the motor off to get all the seals replaced and to clean the inside. This truck is going to be beautiful. The pics do not do this paint job justice.

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[/IMG] were still waiting on the bed to get back from the painters, were going to put stained oak boards down in the bed.

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[fast14riot]

^^^sweet!^^^


-X

 

[Johnbeck180]

^^^sweet!^^^


-X

Thanks!! It's been a while since we've finished the F600, the thing I remember most about that one is, when we had it down to just frame and motor we had to detach the rear axel and move it forward to the next mounting holes in the frame then cut the excess frame off. Before we cut the excess frame off, witch was around 1-2 feet. Due to the weight of the motor in front you could go to the back lift it and move it around like a big wheelbarrow.