Bicycles
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Beautiful bikes @Denimhead-0 what's the story behind the collection?
Just an OCD for steel bikes. I’ve been downsizing from 20ish to about 12 now.
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@Denimhead-0 that is a nice collection of bikes. I have to agree there is something nice about hand made steel frames, lugged or fillet brazed.
I have a new incoming frame, hopefully has cleared customs this week and ready to be built when I get home from work in a weeks time. I am a sucker for Nicolai bikes, have had quite a few of them over the years including the Rohloff speedhub based Nucleon frames. When Nicolai announced the new Nucleon 16 I knew I was in trouble. I have owned every Nucleon frame to date.
The new Nucleon 16 is the first production bike to use the Lal Supre Drive system. Looking forward to seeing how this works. I needed to buy two chains due to the longer chain length required for the system.
The rear triangle is black anodized and front triangle is "Arctic Green" which is a colour shifting green / purple powdercoat finish.
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@Denimhead-0 that is a nice collection of bikes. I have to agree there is something nice about hand made steel frames, lugged or fillet brazed.
I have a new incoming frame, hopefully has cleared customs this week and ready to be built when I get home from work in a weeks time. I am a sucker for Nicolai bikes, have had quite a few of them over the years including the Rohloff speedhub based Nucleon frames. When Nicolai announced the new Nucleon 16 I knew I was in trouble. I have owned every Nucleon frame to date.
The new Nucleon 16 is the first production bike to use the Lal Supre Drive system. Looking forward to seeing how this works. I needed to buy two chains due to the longer chain length required for the system.
The rear triangle is black anodized and front triangle is "Arctic Green" which is a colour shifting green / purple powdercoat finish.
That bike is going to be sick. Can’t wait to see the finished build. Here is a pick of my custom Retrotec Single speed, really fun on the single track.
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@Denimhead-0 Is the Retrotec a tribute to the old Corratec design?
Did you see that Merlin Metalworks are releasing a modern Newsboy bike?
https://www.merlinbikes.com/limited-edition-newsboy
Classic / retro bikes especially mountain bikes is another rabbit hole. I always wanted a Manitou, Trimble or Funk frame. I do have an original Clockwork Orange mountain bike complete with quill stem and aluminum rigid forks.
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Also very lucky to have picked up a Jones welded Jones before the manufacture went to Asia.
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They can't all be new--- some oldies out there in the wild
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@JunkPants Thanks! It’s a Triathlon / Time Trial bike. Quite a limited use case, but fast as hell.
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@Dmart Very cool. Even just sitting there it does look fast as hell!
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Whoa well done @Dmart bike is going to be so much fun. How does it feel so far? Looking forward to feedback.
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@Dmart Fellow Triathlete?
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@Dmart nice, well you certainly have the bike for it. I started very slow as a swimmer too. Now it is certainly my best discipline of the three (granted still not fast), it comes with repetition and lots of practice
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@Spencer35 it’s a very technical sport compared to cycling and running. I’m daily in the water and it gets better, slowly but steady.
my swim doesn’t look like it yet…