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Scott Hrouda
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Posted: Fri 24 Jun, 2011 7:55 am Post subject: |
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Continuing with the jousting theme, you could take a stock bicycle saddle and build up the cantle to appear somewhat like the saddle below. This might infringe upon the "somewhat stock" appearance, but it would unquestionably be a conversation starter!
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...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped. - Sir Bedevere
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Sean Flynt
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M. Adair Orr
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Posted: Fri 24 Jun, 2011 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Small world,
I've ridden that urban assault bike a few times. I used to work in the same building as Lars. He even made the necklace I am wearing. That bike is a kick in the pants.
-Adair
Last edited by M. Adair Orr on Fri 24 Jun, 2011 1:21 pm; edited 1 time in total
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Sean Flynt
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Christopher Treichel
Location: Metro D.C. Joined: 14 Jan 2010
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Posted: Wed 03 Apr, 2013 11:04 am Post subject: |
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Nice bike, I ride a modified Fuji League.
Only thing I could think of would be to replace the stock shield/company logo on the head tube with a small shield you make yourself... your coat of arms or some such.
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Christopher Treichel
Location: Metro D.C. Joined: 14 Jan 2010
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Posted: Wed 03 Apr, 2013 11:07 am Post subject: |
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If you live in a city/drive in traffic, I would definitly add front breaks to a fixie...
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Sean Flynt
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Lucas LaVoy
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Posted: Wed 03 Apr, 2013 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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Leather over cord wrap instead of grip tape. With cord risers...?
"Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing."
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János Sibinger
Location: Hungary/France Joined: 31 May 2009
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Posted: Wed 03 Apr, 2013 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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I once rode a fixie... Once...
I've missed the brakes really much!
You can cover your seat in vegetable tanned leather, and "draw" decorative patterns onto it, but... This kind of material do not appreciate the rain too much. (I most certainly would not do it here, We are having winter and snow and rain and cutenesses like this for slowly six months now... But beeswax on the saddle, on the other hand might do the trick...)
Have you toughed about placing embossed sections of tubes on the frame? Just small ones, a few centimeters on the end of a tube or two. Nothing fancy, just fluted lines, or anything like this made of thin plates of steel or tin. It is not that complicated, and could be done in a manner to not ruin the clean look of a fixie!
Good luck!
János
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