Hey there, my brother Joseph stopped by to throw a new fork onto his Salsa Vaya Ti this week, so I took the opportunity and snapped a few quick pics of it.
-peter
i’ve been thinking long and hard about swapping out tires on the Gunnar Sport, it had a set of 23mm tires on the 19mm rims it’s sitting on, that sounds reasonable right? for a race bike haha, and as the Gunnar Sport is intended as a sport tourer (and I now have the Klein) I…
so i guess i forgot to throw these up on the blog, but here is the sv sitting on it’s new ’04 GSXR600 rear wheel, as the one with the polished lip supposedly got lost in the mail, or so said the dude who sold it to me, lonnnggg story… cough, asshole, cough…. -peter
lots of fun toys coming together on the Strong road frame, namely the custom made Rychtarski Columbus MAX fork (an awesome Polish company that makes beautiful bikes for INSANELY good prices!), King Headset, the recent wheelset build, and shifters. starting with the fork, it was made to the exact dimensions of the original Strong fork,…
(a photoshop job using one 650b wheel, sorry joseph 😉 ) so i’ve been bouncing from idea to idea about what i want to do with my ’38 Schwinn Straightbar 26″ guys bike, and i think i’ve finally settled on one. it’s going to end up something fairly close to what it originally was, an…
just a quick snap of the Gunnar from the other day, hated the light so didn’t bother with any more, hope to have some more this week. love my Campy equipped Gunnar Sport, but more about that in the next post on it 😉 -peter
i when i found this complete prewar straightbar on craigslist.org for the right price and only 25 minutes from my house, i had to jump at the opportunity. this is how it looks now, i have a lot of plans for it, but for now, i’m just going to enjoy it 🙂 -peter