Fix it.

The bike is nearing completion :)  The weather has been rubbish and unfortunately has kept me from finishing this little project and going for a spin.  I'd been putting it off until a nice sunny day but we haven't had any lately so the other day it was looking like the bad weather would hold off for the afternoon and I'd be able to sneak in a painting session.  However, I was wrong.  It was nice up until I'd just applied the last coat of clear and it started bucketing down.  The result of me being a bit eager and painting on a day with moisture present in the air was a milky, patchy frame.  Luckily the majority of the discolouration was in the final coat of clear so with some 3000 grit and a lot of polishing, it came up okay.

Bad:

Good:

 You can start to see the colour here, the gold flake is very subtle:

Thanks to Luke I have a new set of handlebars.  Luke had some alloy pipe left over from his FSS Net, so he kindly gave me a piece to make myself a set of flat bars.  I made them a slimming 380mm, we'll see how they go when this baby hits the black top lol.  With a bit of a polish and some grips I had laying around from the Sincro Shifter, they look like this:

A few other accessories have been trickling in.  My saddle arrived.  I wasn't sure about it after I'd bought it online, but I'm very pleased with it now, it looks and feels really nice.  Fits my colour scheme well too.

Crank-set all 'dolled up' and waiting for the new chain-ring to arrive.  I ended up getting a 44 tooth chain-ring as it will be a little easier to get used to fixed gear riding, making it easier to accelerate and skid-stop as well as there will be 4 skid patches rather than just 1 for the alternate option; 48/16.  Ideally I would have got a 46T, but they are uncommon and far more expensive.

Wheels!  I am also really happy with the wheels.  The seem to be decent quality for the price I paid.  At this stage I think I might remove the stickers from the rear wheel and leave them on the front - Ideas/opinions??

This set didn't come with tubes and tyres so I went and got some basic tyres and some tubes with 60mm presta valves (Thanks to the friendly dude at 99 Bikes at Chermside :)

These wheels feature machined out sections as well as the blade spokes.  I wonder what these wheels will sound like when spinning..

Not long now till I will be tearing up the streets, fixie style :p  Lets pray for a nice sunny, DRY day so I can finish painting everything..

Brad