Beckenham track bike build - nearly done!

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Haven’t been on FOA for a while now so thought I would share my latest build.

I swapped a bunch of stuff with a friend a few months back and got this frame.

The frame is Christchurch built by Don Gibbs (same frame builder as my black Columbus Max frame). It was labeled as a Beckenham cycles bike and sold through their store, which has now fallen done in the earthquakes that hit Christchurch…
It is Columbus SL tubing and has a 54 seat tube and a retardly small head tube, 700c front and rear with rad chromed wishbone rear and forks.


Put cranks and headset on in the weekend. Used a strong-light headset off my Bauer but I hope to replace it with a nice Campy one soon.

Still need to get the seat post and chain ring polished as well as find a stem so I can run my old Nitto bull horns on. With such a small head tube I might stick to risers, not sure at this stage?

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Nice dude

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rad, love the wishbone stays.

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Some nitto straight (no sweep) risers would look ace on this!!!

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Drops plz.

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nitto rb-021’s. not drops.

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Ftfy.

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I’ve got these Nitto bull horns that I had on my clamont, not sure the model though.

Just need to find a 26.0 stem for them. Also thinking about this bar tape for it. Maybe too much red?

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that’s really tight! i reckon drops will look good

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^ that shit would set it off perfectly

nice build (again)

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some red/white tape to match to the seat would be rad.

like what gene has on his merckx, except more red and less white.

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the mash online store has some nice tape which goes from red to white

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Post one more crap bike and I’ll ban you…*

*not really.

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Put new bar tape on the Beckenham.

Still not sure about the red… Also looks pretty shinny in the light, hopefully it will dull down after it gets worn in.

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very nice!

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Can’t see pics :frowning:

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Photo fixed!

Still unsure of the red, I wish the Turbo Bio red was similar

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It is a bit shiny, but it’ll dull!

Or you could clear coat or buff up the red to get some shine on the frame!!!

What are those bars??? I want to get some pursuit bars for my pursuit… Was thinking of hacking the ends of some nitto rb021.s and rolling them upwards for some ghetto stylin.

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I have some Nitto ones similar to these… I can take a pic if you wish.

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you took all my frames, now I have nothing to build up with…

the red is mean, just let it wear out… let it dull.