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Pompino - new build

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  • Started 12 years ago by Instography
  • Latest reply from ruggtomcat

  1. Instography
    Member

    I thought some folk might be interested in my new toy that I finished making today, having started in October. A chocolate brown Pompino frame with various bits and bobs attached. Mostly picked up the bits in sales (apart from the saddle - that was Christmas).

    I had planned to build it with an Alfine geared hub but baulked at the price of the hub and went for single speed, only with a more relaxed ratio of 40:20 than my everyday SS with its 50:16.

    The wheels make me slightly nervous with their reduced spoke count and radial lacing at the front. I've never quite reconciled myself to the fact that my entire weight is supported by little metal sticks and this isn't helping.

    Took it for a wee spin today and it seems nice. Odd enforced slowness. Might be worth an Arthur's Seat attempt.

    Some photos on Flickr

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. crowriver
    Member

    Nice!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. ExcitableBoy
    Member

    Looks very nice to me too.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. chdot
    Admin

    Brown is the new black.

    But there's a future for -


    Whites

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. LivM
    Member

    I'm very tempted by a Pompetamine Alfine 11 that glows in the dark. I haven't quite justified it to myself yet though. Nice Pompino :)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. Uberuce
    Member

    Sounds like it'll dance up Arthur's Seat and be an agile device in traffic. What is that clever looking device on the back cog?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. Dave
    Member

    Chain tug - it stops the hub sliding further forward in the dropout than you want (controlled by little screws).

    Nice looking bike! It's funny to see how extremely similar frames can end up built so completely differently (yours and mine).

    Carbon brake levers..?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. Instography
    Member

    Yeah, they do end up completely different. And you also learn that you don't have as many useful bits lying around as you thought so your 'cheap' build ends up not quite so cheap.

    The brake levers are a joke. I don't know what I was thinking when I bought them a couple of years ago to put on a bike that was intended to be mainly used on a turbo trainer. But they were there.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Instography, that bike's a beauty! Clean, simple lines, understated colour scheme. Lovely saddle. I have the same brake levers, agree they're made out of sponge cake, but then they're designed for TT builds where brakes are a bit of an afterthought. I have mounted mine back-to-front on old Raleigh Twenty bars as bar end brakes. Kinda stop you, just have to brake twice as early as I normally would!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. ruggtomcat
    Member

    phwoooor!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  11. ruggtomcat
    Member

    there is something about the arse ona pompino, should be to skinny to be ugly but actually thoes bony bits are fascinating... imho, ahem.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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