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			thirdraildesignlab posted a photo:	Cleaned up and reclaimed components from prior builds. These photos document my Carpetbagger project, a fixed-gear build fitted with S&S Couplers to be used as a travel bike. The general details of the build sheet are:1. SOMA Rush frame, 56cm: stripped, coupled, then powdercoated in a color to match my sweet, sweet MINI.2. S&S Couplers: break-away coupler set to allow the bike to be packed in an airline compliant case and avoid bike shipping fees; assembled by Tom at 41303. SOMA Sparrow bars4. Odyssey finger lever5. Shimano medium reach brake with Kool-Stops6. Handmade wheels by 718c.com with Velocity Fusions and All-City hubs in bright polished silver.7. Panaracer Pasela 700x23 tyres8. Elkhide by Velo Orange, hand stitched9. Custom bar end caps made from vintage typewriter keys.10. Velo-Orange Stem and Seatpost11. Brooks Swallow, Honey12. Sugino 75 drivetrain: 72 inchgearLove it. Team Lope Tyre Clubbe

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excelsiorsidedetailcf7 Absurd Future Plan: Pennyfarthing

We were joking about it awhile back, and it came up again at work recently, when my boss accused me of becoming too much of a bike collector type, with too many bikes in the wrongRoom(tm) hung all here and there. ‘all here and there’ is more than just here or there, but more here AND there.

Anyway, I check craigslist half-assedly every now and again for them, not expecting to find anything. i figure when i actually have time to work on one, I can sort it out properly, and talk to a pennyfarthinger at the next CM or what have you. Anyway, I was messing about and doing a little reading, and found a site that sells reproductions.

GORGEOUS.

Note the oil lamp.

This is the ‘Excelsior Standard’
which is great, because Monkeybites calls every other vehicle he drives the ‘Excelsior 5000′

Anyway, i’d rather pay a lot less that $1,500 and renovate it up my own self, but still.

http://www.hiwheel.com/antique_replicas … andard.htm

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