FAO whoever was pondering silver mudguards on a yellow bike: pics.

Can't find the original thread now where I was going to post links to pics.

http://www.velvetpurrs.com/pics/bike-1.jpg (complete
frame/wheels/assorted junk)
http://www.velvetpurrs.com/pics/bike-2.jpg (rear guard/frame)
http://www.velvetpurrs.com/pics/bike-3.jpg (front guard/frame)

Hope that's of some use to the OP. I think it helps that the silver
mudguards pick out the silver on the frame, but not only that, many of
the components seem to come in brushed silver colour, so it's not just
the mudguards that are silver. Stuff like the brake assemblies,
deraillieur hanger?, qr levers, rims, etc - all silver.

Oh, and in case anyone's giong to ask, that rear rack is a tubus fly, 3
point mount, very light but rigid enough for shopping-filled reasonable
sized panniers (not the biggest you can get) and said altura panniers
don't flop into the spokes (very stiff back to them).#

And yes, I know if I had less gubbins on the bike it'd be faster, but
not a lot, given my wet-string-for-muscles legs ;-) I'm looking forward
(should I ever get to a suitable level of ability/fitness) to stripping
off most of those bits down to the bare essentials and seeing how much
faster it'll go in an audax or something...

Velvet

Can't find the original thread now where I was going to post links to pics.

Nic bike.

Cheers, helen s



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Velvet wrote:

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And yes, I know if I had less gubbins on the bike it'd be faster, but
not a lot, given my wet-string-for-muscles legs ;-) I'm looking forward
(should I ever get to a suitable level of ability/fitness) to stripping
off most of those bits down to the bare essentials and seeing how much
faster it'll go in an audax or something...


I'm impressed with the amount of stuff you've got bolted to that! If
you want to go faster, I recommend getting another bike. There can't
possibly be enough hours in the week to take all that lot off AND put it
back on again

Cheers!

Pete

Ningi wrote:

Velvet wrote:

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And yes, I know if I had less gubbins on the bike it'd be faster, but
not a lot, given my wet-string-for-muscles legs ;-) I'm looking
forward (should I ever get to a suitable level of ability/fitness) to
stripping off most of those bits down to the bare essentials and
seeing how much faster it'll go in an audax or something...


I'm impressed with the amount of stuff you've got bolted to that! If
you want to go faster, I recommend getting another bike. There can't
possibly be enough hours in the week to take all that lot off AND put it
back on again

Cheers!

Pete

Heh :-) I seem to be naturally skilled at working out how best to fit
as much stuff into a given space (or onto a given thing) as possible.
Works against me when it comes to self-powered things though!

Can't afford another bike, but it'd not take much time to strip a lot of
that off to enter something like an audax, specially since I put it all
on ;-) Most of the stuff that contributes to the weight is easily got
rid of - probably the only timeconsuming thing would be the rear rack,
but if I take off the lock, front light units & battery, and empty the
water bottle, it's not really noticeably heavier than before most of the
gubbins was fitted. Honest :-)

Velvet