Recent content by novocaine

heat transfer vinyl is easy enough to obtain, I have a roll of white here, but I'm not sure how the rubber would hold up the installing. It also needs a solid surface behind it to ensure good adhesion. It wouldn't look factory though, the vinyl has a thickness that the screen printing doesn't have.

I think it's pretty safe to say that there isn't a modern invention without something with a similar function or purpose already existing. The "amazing" that people seek from the past is often no longer made because it was a fad or because it rubbish and pointless. Everything else, evolved to...

find (or make) a tensioner that pushes up from underneath. you can get a much nicer look without having the tensioner hanging off the back end like a wart. you can use your half link to get close then use the tensioner to take out the last bit.

I reckon anything you do is going to look worse. Short if stripping them to black and screen printing them again. You ight getaway with a stencil, but freehand, nope. Like I said, they were never really white. Enjoy it for what it is. I think these cost the shop 2.50 a peice and we sold...

Not once they hit the shop they wearnt. They may have been from factory, but they weren't within about a day off leaving it.

They weren't white when new. leave them alone. :)

Just because we don't come to the conclusion by the same path, doesn't mean we don't agree. :)

you misunderstand. I like the look, I don't like hunts wheels. :) I've got Condor rims on the Coyote that look very similar, but they cost about a 3rd of the price. I've had 3 friends with Hunts rims. one pancaked on gravel track. . The last set I had to help with, they were sub 1 month old and...

I just don't like hunts wheels. they look fine though.. all modifications sound practical and sensible to me and pretty much what I'd do myself.

now that (except the wheels) I like a lot.

Not senile, drunk.

wasn't just one frame, it was a large percentage of them including their road bikes. as Tom says issues under the seat collar but also under the seat stay join and at the BB. they pushed to hard with aluminium and paid the price. I'd still have one, especially with a leftie.

Lord Sheldon Brown the great has a very good guide. https://www.sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html

no. I wasn't born when this shit was the norm and I'm not about to accept it now. We are not motorcycles, stop trying to use their technology on us. :P

Send me some measurements for the spoke holder. let's do something a bit more specific. :)