Leukybear 

Nice! Hope you keep as good care of it as the previous owner did.

4ndrew

Oh man it was yours? It is so cool looking, I just saw it sitting on the site in my size and couldn't get it out of my mind. I'm thinking:

Salsa stem I've got sitting around
Easton Carbon risers I've got on another bike
Carbon Seatpost
Old Flite TT saddle
Sugino 75's to the Alter ring
Profile red ano hubs to black Tb14's
Gumwalls
Maybe fancy gold KMC chain? idk on this one.

Not a super classic build but I could never been to bothered about that sort of thing.

thermalattorney

For the love of god don't ruin that beautiful frame with tacky colored parts. Anodized parts will *never* match the red paint and forget about the gold chain. Black everything w/ gumwalls = Let the frame shine

Muffin Man

I say silver rims/hubs/spokes, black parts, and then silver chain. The frame has too much color on it to have color anywhere else

Co1Ev

Gonna get my paint on this weekend.

Leukybear 

Nope I knew the previous owner, here's how it was in its prior life:

1972 Raleigh Track - Pedal Room

I'll stick to either all black or silver components.

Putting colored parts on it would be the equivalent of your mom wearing your sister's clothes.

4ndrew

A silver paint-by-numbers build is precisely what I'm trying to avoid haha. And I saw the previous iteration of it on pedalroom. It's nice, but doesn't throw me over the moon (and for the record has a gold and black chain, which is what I was thinking about when I mentioned that).

This build is essentially the reason why I think ano hubs can work: Gautheron - Pedal Room

I'm not talking about putting gold sugino messenger cranks on the thing haha.

Huffandstuff

All black, all the time.

4ndrew

I was likely going to just wrap with black bar tape or do some Strong V's, though I do have some Odi lock-ons on another bike that I like quite a lot

IAmSam

Beautiful frame...

I can see you are not much inclined to listen to good advice but to do anything other than a vintage-looking build on that frame, even if you do it with modern retro-styled parts, would be a damned shame. For guidance you should check-out how Scrodzilla built his Raleigh Ti.

It will be interesting to see how you end up - please post pics when you are finished

Have fun & good luck...

applesoggy

Is Spray.bike available in US? I emailed them and they said they were looking for United States distributors as far as I know cannot be shipped to the US from the UK

4ndrew

I ride brakeless fixed on a daily basis, ignoring good advice is a specialty of mine

It's going to be mostly retro-styled parts, in fact the hubs and chainring would basically be the only bits that aren't vintage or inspired by such. I've seen enough classic-styled track bikes with all-silver parts to last me a lifetime, they hold no appeal to me.

That said: would be interested to see Scrod's build, as far as classic-style builds go I like these quite a lot:
Raleigh SBDU track 1985 - Pedal Room
Raleigh Track Pro TI Reynolds 753 (sold) - Pedal Room
1975 Raleigh Professional Track TI - Pedal Room

Scrodzilla

1975 Raleigh Professional Track - Pedal Room

SquidPuppet

I vote black everything too, to compliment the black frame sections. Hubs, spokes, rims, saddle, everything....

Except..... red bar tape.

4ndrew

Super nice, though my booty has never gotten along with Brooks saddles for whatever reason. The frames definitely look good with all-silver stuff, it's just not really my cup of tea.

Dave1978

Got some new drop bar hoods and brakes. Since the rear brake pads don't reach my rim without moving the wheel all the way forwards, which looks pretty goofy and would make it impossible to change my rear cog anyway, I'm just running the front brake. I need to figure out how to keep the right lever from flopping around. any suggestions?

4ndrew

Was thinking about this but weirdly, red bar tape seems like it'd be a bit much to me (even though the red ano hubs don't lol)

TimothyH

Run the cables, put the caliper on and don't install the brake pads?

Either way, flopping or not, you are going to love the comfort of those hoods, especially if using a road bar with a flat top.

SquidPuppet

Don't do the red hubs. Not on that bike.

I'm all for personalizing your bike, and NOT going down the traditional path. Hell, I take grinders to my frames and cut off unwanted bits and pieces. But, I am starting with mass produced (Billions), noncollectable, super generic, average bikes.

I subscribe to this belief that a bike should be treated the same way 40 years later, as it was when it was new. I give them the respect they "deserve". A cheap-ass Huffy that was a piece of junk (disposable) when new in 1967 doesn't deserve an expensive and accurate restore project. Your Raleigh deserves at least Period Correct Styling. Not necessarily true NOS components, but at least they should look the part.

IMO

4ndrew

Eh, like I said: it'll mostly be classic-style parts, but the Gautheron I posted above is the reason I think it isn't doomed to failure from the start, looks-wise. And again, I can't be bothered with period-correct stuff, or "appropriate" stuff. I won't be running tubs on it for example, even though that'd be the correct move for a track bike, because I want to actually ride the thing.

Co1Ev

Not as far as I'm aware. Brick Lane Bikes are the only UK shop that stocks them that I know of but they can only ship them domestically and to the EU, though I can't imagine it'll be very long before they find their way into the US.

franswa

Back to gum walls. I've missed them sonofa*****es. Also got new track pedals with toe cages and leather straps(not yet installed) so I can wear comfy shoes to work.

thunderjohn

I got some Fibre Flare Helmet lights!!!

M.V.P Helmet Light | RED

Leukybear 

Run a piece of cable without the housing under/ in between bar tape layers. You're going to have to unwrap and repull the cable to bring the lever back up every time you forget and squeeze it or have it bump into something.

Muffin Man

I tied a hair tie to the pulley, and then pulled it through the body of the lever, and then hooked it somewhere on the plastic. I really wished they had a spring in the lever though.