My girl’s bike is finally finished. We got the frame from Punch Cycles in Tokyo. Its a Stratos Keiring frame that was red and pretty beat up, so we had it repainted by Damien at Cog Café (Watermelon with Pearl rear), Polished Velocity Aeros, Polished Nitto stem, polished seatpost and white GR-9s from Shifter Bikes, Gippieme cranks form the swap meet.
don’t like the bars, and while i can understand its probably a cruiser style thing for your girl, can’t help but feel that it doesn’t suit the frame at all. why not risers?
frame+paint looks awesome! love the details on the seat/chain stays (love that third pic). looks real clean.
this is really beautiful!
fuck the haterz, the bars match the brooks really well and and fit in with the classic look - love the polished alloy. Paintjob is great too.
oh and I’d be placing a thin yet firm piece of clamping rubber underneath the brake mount clamps.
I’d imagine the force of braking on a spinning wheel will pull the unit forwards resulting in an imprint of the clamps on the fork blade paint (probably more so on the rear of the fork blades.)
would be a shame to mess up that nice new fresh paint!
They look to be the same shape as nitto albatross. I bought some of these for my GF’s bike. Essentially the same shape and pretty cheap! Very comfortable bars too.
Nothing flash, they’ll do the job for the next 10-20 years on that rebuild. Also have alum. alloy version for not much more money. Budget about $15-$35.
Abbortsford stock Rex stuff and Ridgeways in Bris.