"Severely weight optimized"????? - sounds dangerous to me

[daccordimark]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Colnago-Maste ... 1c4e69eff3

Am I reading this right? Has he drilled out parts of the stem and frame, filled the holes with fibreglass and then sprayed them?

Also check out the front wheel in this other one of his.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Single-speed- ... 1c4e6a6d93

And what is he doing with the "cyclocross" forks? An aluminium spacer to give a higher front end?

Hopefully the ludicrous prices will mean no one buys these death traps.

Mark.

 

[Grease Monkey]

Yes, you are referring to the bike I previously highlighted as an S.O.T.M (Shanner of The Month)!

The guy is a complete loon. These are really just shit gas pipe steel frames with holes cut in them. Presumably the weight of an old shanner like this was too much for the poor boy, and took the Dremel to it.

As they say, there's no accounting for taste :facepalm:

 

[NeilM]

Re:

Oh dear oh dear oh dear!

I seem to recall seeing something of a similar nature based on a Orbit mtb frame, where the rear mech drop out had been hacked off and holes had been drilled in the end of the handlebars (under the grips). If it is the same guy, then he just takes frames / bikes and wrecks them.

 

[Grease Monkey]

Put some air in your tyres

 

[dyna-ti]

He might be from Livingston but he's as nutty as a Dundee fruit cake :shock:

 

[Grease Monkey]

I just got a message back from him, after pointing out that excessive drilling / milling of vital frame areas like the head lugs and bottom bracket might be Health and Safety issues for a potentialbuyer..

'I'm not interested in your comments, my bikes are works of art'. He says.

Pip pip old chap!

 

[NeilM]

'I'm not interested in your comments, my bikes are works of art'. He says.

Well if the state of the drilling on that cable guide is anything to go by, he's a cr@p artist.

 

[daccordimark]

If someone comes a cropper on one of his "works of art" then he'll soon have to be interested in other people's opinions.
Does anyone know what the legal position is on selling dangerously modified bikes?

Mark.

 

[pete_mcc]

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I love the idea of weight optimisation and then powder coating the seat post 'cos that's the lightweight option. Also I wonder if he's considered the fact that the post now won't fit the frame.


He talks about 'ovalise-ing of tube/ reducing wall thickness slightly along triple butting principles and drilling' but all I see is wonky drilling which he explains 'as a lot of "fatto a mano", (made by hand) as one of my fabricators at Bertone/ Torino/ in Italy used to tell me, when the drillings would witness a slight irregularity'.
I always thought 'man fat' was another thing created by hand...


EDIT: just seen that the seatpost slips in the seattube without even as much as a push according to the 7th pic, maybe he compensated for the paint by buying a post a cm too small

 

[Grease Monkey]

I've got this rusty Raleigh Arena lying in the garage - powder coat it and drill it to an 'SBDU' tribute standard. Wow! This is brilliant

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/321678756366