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			thirdraildesignlab posted a photo:	View of my Walnut portage strap, as stitched onto the frame of the wrongbike fixed- gear conversion project in it's second incarnation after a recent tear-down.Wrongbike is a fixed-gear conversion of an old Vista road bike. The current set-up is:1. Vista original frame and fork, sandblasted and powdercoated nuclear trigger yellow-orange, with chrome fork accents2. Nitto Tecnomic quill stem3. Nitto Moustache bars4. Toshi leather bar wrap with cork bar end plugs5. Original Vista headset6. Walnut portage strap7. Mavic Pros laced to a White Industries Eno Eccentric hub8. Sugino cog and Messenger crankset, 72 inchgear9. gumwalls, for science10. Brass Universal Sound Bell on Velo Orange retro bell headset mount.More on the build can be found on www.teamlopetyreclubbe.com

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nswpoliceheadphonesheadmx1 Best Dont Get Hit by a Car While Listening to your iPod Ad

http://creativebits.org/killer_ipod_cam … ian_police

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arantixbikeframepe7 Carbon Fiber Space Frame in Bike Frame Design

Not my bag, baby, but an interesting engineering application for carbon fiber’s strengths, minimizing it’s weaknesses, and maximizing weight savings. Pretty incredible,

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/01/09/tiny- … ke-frames/

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I was doing some googlesearching to get some background on a really odd branded piece of vintage bike componentry on a bike I recently stripped, and stumbled across this most excellent gallery of chainrings. Many are wrongrings, no doubt, and certainly some are R3 approved in color, as well as others in design. You have to check them out. My favorite is rather weird. It’s hard to explain:

http://www.bikecult.com/works/chainwheel.html

This pie plate chainring appealed to me, because of the the block text, unnecessarily labeled, thrice occuring stamp:

iversonr10crgi1 Surreal Chainring Gallery

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yubinlw5 Site of the Day: Japanese Bicycle History Research Club

a) for the name
2) for the Rushmoreness
d) for the sweet bikes!

http://www.eva.hi-ho.ne.jp/ordinary/index.html

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