Here’s the specs:
Frame / Size / Year:
Livery Design Gruppe Black Sparkle Track / 53cm / 2010
Handlebars / Stem:
Nitto Classic 42cm 25.4mm Silver Road Bars / Nitto Lugged Threadless Stem
Fork / Headset:
Livery Design Gruppe Track Stem / Chris King Threadless Headset
Front Wheel / Hub / Rim / Tire:
Origin8 Pro-Pulsion Track Hub / Velocity Deep V Rim / Vittoria Zaffiro Pro Tire
Rear Wheel / Hub / Rim / Tire:
Origin8 Pro-Pulsion Track Hub / Velocity Deep V Rim / Vittoria Zaffiro Pro Tire
Crankset / Bottom Bracket:
Sugino RD2 Messenger Crankset Pearl White / Sugino Bottom Bracket
Saddle / Seat Post:
Brooks White Team Pro CMWC Tokyo / Nitto S-84 Lugged Seatpost
Pedals / Chain:
Origin8 Pro Track Light Pedal & Soma Fab Toe Cages
Brakes / Brake Levers:
Shimano Tiagra Brakes / Soma Fabrications Urban Cross Levers
Gearing / Chainring / Misc.:
Euro-Asia Deluxe Track Cog
Yeah, yeah, my seat angle is weird. I like it.
Okay, here’s my actual new frame from Livery Design Gruppe. Ordered today, should be here on Wednesday.
Off to Butano 2007 (via cubilette
What tidy packing.
When I got my bike, the SE Lager White, I thought it was cute but a leeeeetle cheesy. The checkered pad, the seat with the lightening bolt…eh, it was kind of over the top. So I got rid of the pad, I got a new plain seat, and I planned to melt off the silver decals. (The decals aren’t that bad, by the way, just kind of distracting.)
But it turns out the SE marketing team is very clever; there’s a slick layer of clear polish over the decals. No scraping, no blowdryer, not paint remover will get rid of those suckers without damaging the paint job. The decals are there For Real.
I didn’t really feel like repainting my bike myself (tried it once; it is hard) or paying a hundred to get it done professionally, so I researched taping up my frame. I found examples of couriers taping up the whole frame to save the paint job, but it doesn’t seem like a lot of folks have taped over decals or tried to do anything decorative with their bikes and posted it online.
So I’ll go first! This is what I did to my bike: I covered the decals with the fabulous Identi-Tape’s vinyl tape. I used a 2” white as a base and then added some 1” purple stripes. It looks a little ghetto up close, but from a foot away, it looks pretty great.
(Ian also taped up his old Giant frame. He covered the whole thing in 4” black matte gaffer and used the 1” purple vinyl to add racer stripes.)