Dunk’s Euro track bike takes shape…
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May 21st, 2007 at 9:48 am
Man, that looks fast.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:20 pm
looking fast is all it is going to be doing for the time being though until there are some high polish campag cranks, a sweet brooks saddle with the leather down the sides cut off for extra speed and some other shiny bar and stem and seat post combination. I might have to take it for a roll when it is done.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
By the way Lock is a force. I know what Jan felt like when Lance looked over his shoulder and said “are you coming with me?” as Lock dropped me like a sack of the proverbial up Galston Gorge. Not only that he had 25km on me before we even started and then added another 30 as he rode home afterwards.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Finally, someone gets TT to bonk!
The ride to uni this morning was a bit crisp, at around 7 degrees, but Wednesday morning is going to be a cracker: a minimum of -3 is predicted (Note the MINUS!).
May 21st, 2007 at 1:35 pm
It was a pretty sweeet ride though, Bobbing Head to Brooklyn to Berowra Waters to Galston Gorge
May 21st, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Yeah it’s going to be sleek!!
Yeah I’m planning on hooking it up with a track BB (Sugino), some Sugino 75 track cranks, cinelli stem, nitto track bars, plain alloy seatpost and a Brooks? Ewww… no thanks! Just going to whip my Giant saddle on it for the time being. Then get something nice later on.
Going to see my ‘dealer’ on Wednesday.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Duncan how dare you put a Giant saddle on it. Wash your mouth out!
May 21st, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Ahem… yes, yes, I’m quite large. Although, I’m sure if I’d bet TT his bike that I’d beat him up the hill things would have been different.
The Euro looks very damn nice thus far but TT is right no Giant saddle should ever grace the post of that machine Duncs. At least you could put a sheepskin cover over it to go on with.
May 21st, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Yes yes I know I know…
Suggestions then? Fizik? Selle Italia? San Marco?
No Brooks or Rolls will ever feel the steely firmness of my buns.
Problem with having a pimping track bike is that everything has to be pimping. And every bike I own in the future as to be equally nice, if not hotter.
May 21st, 2007 at 5:19 pm
A San Marco Rolls would be quite fitting but it will cost the same as the frame.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:52 am
Yikes I had better be careful driving through the Gorge from now on. I hadn’t realised the massacists I often have to weave around and avoid may actually be people I know!!!
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Is that a Columbus tubes stamp on the crown of the fork?
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Yep and on the drop outs too (front and rear).
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:08 am
Been trying to do some research, but to no avail. Whats the deal with Columbus tubing? Yay? Nay? Gay?
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:27 am
It’s good stuff, particularly the lighter butted variety
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_tubing
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:41 am
Yeah I saw that. But butted doesn’t really mean much to me!?
Apparently there are different grades too in regards to stiffness and durability. I’ll look for a numbered stamp on the frame somewhere tonight (during half time).
How does it compare to other types of tubing?
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Columbus has always been around the top of the food chain. There was an era (70’s-early 90’s) that one could argue that the japanese steels such as ishiwata and tange were better but columbus was equally good. Columbus has kept its dominance through its inovation, such as first elliptically rolled fork tubes to the first differential butted tubes in the 90’s.
Columbus has always made quality tubes using mandrels (seamless tubing), as compared to cheap, lesser quality tubing that is rolled from sheet steel (seamed tubing). That is not to say that all seamed tubes are all bad, as heat treating the seamed tubing can create a very good tube (TrueTemper - used on USA olympic bikes built by ex-Japanese master kieren builder Yamaguchi).
Other popular tubing is Reynolds (just as good as columbus), Kaisei (basically ishiwata - lower end a bit dated but upperend good),TrueTemper (heat treated seamed tubing), Deda (another italian company - not too sure about quality but it is expensive - has subsiduaries that make highend stems, handlebars, forks, etc).
Butted should mean the world to you! It lets the tube be as light as possible without loosing any significant strength. Butted tubes are internally thicker at the ends where they are joined to other tubes and can handle the transvers loads applied at the joints as well as the effects of heat during production. They then get thinner (internally) in the middle where the tubing should only be under uniaxial loads along its length.
So thats the some of the little I know about bicycle tubing.
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Oh, and Cinelli has always used columbus tubing as far as I know (same as bianchi with their steel frame)
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Sweet! Thanks for info Tim.
From the seller:
“The bike was handbuilt built by A.I.S frame builder Brian Hayes with Columbus SL double-butted tubing, long pointed lugs and Columbus forged wheel dropouts. The following forged frame parts, rear seat stay bridge, seat stay end caps, bottom bracket, semi sloping fork crown”
I hope it rides well.
May 24th, 2007 at 8:56 am
and I hope you stay on it.
May 24th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
where’s the fun in that?
May 24th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
The ‘fun’ in not staying on it is like falling down a waterfall and hobbling around for a year and spending $$$ on hospitals/physio/crutches and the like.
May 24th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
nonetheless, it does seem to be a rather wonderful example of its type -
anhad always thought that bicycles were very simple machines with very few important parts.
I continue to be enlightened and amazed.
May 24th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
It’s all about the bling (whatever that is!)
bling bling!
May 24th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Update: Just got a cinelli-style stem and some NJS Nitto track drop bars.
Bling!!!!
May 25th, 2007 at 10:45 am
All you need is a seat and you can use it like one of the original 2 wheeled push bikes
May 25th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Draisine1817.jpg/200px-Draisine1817.jpg
Like this? Crazy toit Pants also.
May 28th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I’m pretty sure I’m going to have substantial toe overlap.
Is this a bad thing? Apparently you just have to deal with it and be cautious at low speeds.
Ideas?
June 1st, 2007 at 8:34 pm
don’t turn the wheel into your foot
November 13th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
oh ok, I’ll try that