** ALVES 853 **

[velofrog]

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thanks lads


have been tinkering with the decals, so far i have this, the middle of the letters would be high gloss clear vinyl, with a silver outline, quite subtle against the grey

 

[BobCatMax]

Re: ** ALVES 853 - finished!! - 27/8/15 **

what sort of weight does it come out at?

 

[mattiamerca]

Re: ** ALVES 853 - finished!! - 27/8/15 **

steel is real!
amazing ht man! so beautiful, especially the rear triangle, the dropouts and the internal cable routing...
very brillant bike!

 

[velofrog]

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after dismantling my single speed work bike (as i'm now walking the 4 miles a day instead), i decided i'd build the Alves single speed, most of the stuff on the work bike was too good really, so thought i would make better use of it!

Mavic 819 tubeless rims on Hope hubs in grey were a good match, and i had a WTB SST 98 stashed with a bit of grey too, so fitted that. the Velosolo spacer kit was gold, red and black, so decided to use that as a theme, i have a few CK headsets so made one out of three!

and courtesy of Haggis from MacRetro, i snagged some Salsa Cromto 29er forks, which jack up the front end more in keeping with how it was meant to be, as it was originally designed to have a long travel fork. the geometry looks much better with the extra fork length.

narrow bars and bar ends, a nine speed chain and it was done, love the contrast of the gloss black fork and stem with the satin grey, works really well!

here are a couple of pics in its new updated state....

 

[velofrog]

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[velofrog]

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and took a couple of it alongside my Salsa

 

[The History Man]

Re: ** ALVES 853 - single speed - 2016 update **

Very miniml- mnimal, minmila. Simple.

I'd go all red or all gold though. Just enough to be sexy....

 

[velofrog]

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it was all red, the headset, some Kore ti skewers..... but thought it looked a little bland!

and as the Salsa is very muted colour-wise, i thought i'd inject a little gold to bling it up a little!

 

[BobCatMax]

Re: ** ALVES 853 - single speed - 2016 update **

I like the highlights, and it's a great looking bike. there's something about the fork that doesn't sit well with me tho

 

[velofrog]

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a to c on rockshox psylo race forks was 485, it's 475 on the cromotos, so a closer match than the 425 of the 26 inch wheel fork...... maybe it's that you're picking up on?