Now THIS is what it looks like when your parts bin throws up!
12-21-11, 12:32 PM
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Now THIS is what it looks like when your parts bin throws up!
Someone recently posted a thread about their parts bin throwing up and creating a beautiful and period correct Raleigh International or something similar...that's not what this is.
I've been wanting to build up a flat bar roadie and I've also been wanting to try out a single speed. I'm at my parents' for Christmas break and realized I have all the parts here to kill two birds with one stone and build a flat bar single speed...
The frame is too big for me and I have to slam the seatpost but the top tube length is perfect with flat bars. I got the frame sans fork from fellow C&V'er bikemore for free as it had been crashed (bent dropout and derailleur hanger) and was camouflaged with a few layers of paint/primer and covered in electrical tape. There are remnants of a Columbus decal on the downtube but I can't make out what it is. It is very nicely built but has had a hard life...
Here she is in all her glory. GT hybrid fork, mini-V in the front, Campy sidepull in the back, Campy chorus crank and a 40 year old Brooks Pro. I've ridden it around the block and through the woods and it rides pretty nicely. If I like it and the fit works I'm going to repaint it and add the biggest tires the rear triangle will take (like 28's) and pull off the big ring on the crank.
Simonelli 1 by telepciaka, on Flickr
Simonelli 3 by telepciaka, on Flickr
Simonelli 2 by telepciaka, on Flickr
Simonelli 5 by telepciaka, on Flickr
Simonelli 4 by telepciaka, on Flickr
Simonelli 6 by telepciaka, on Flickr
I've been wanting to build up a flat bar roadie and I've also been wanting to try out a single speed. I'm at my parents' for Christmas break and realized I have all the parts here to kill two birds with one stone and build a flat bar single speed...
The frame is too big for me and I have to slam the seatpost but the top tube length is perfect with flat bars. I got the frame sans fork from fellow C&V'er bikemore for free as it had been crashed (bent dropout and derailleur hanger) and was camouflaged with a few layers of paint/primer and covered in electrical tape. There are remnants of a Columbus decal on the downtube but I can't make out what it is. It is very nicely built but has had a hard life...
Here she is in all her glory. GT hybrid fork, mini-V in the front, Campy sidepull in the back, Campy chorus crank and a 40 year old Brooks Pro. I've ridden it around the block and through the woods and it rides pretty nicely. If I like it and the fit works I'm going to repaint it and add the biggest tires the rear triangle will take (like 28's) and pull off the big ring on the crank.
Simonelli 1 by telepciaka, on Flickr
Simonelli 3 by telepciaka, on Flickr
Simonelli 2 by telepciaka, on Flickr
Simonelli 5 by telepciaka, on Flickr
Simonelli 4 by telepciaka, on Flickr
Simonelli 6 by telepciaka, on Flickr
12-21-11, 03:20 PM
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Looks like a fun beater. I especially like the mismatched tires. I'd ride it over the hill and through the woods, and to the pub for a pint.
12-21-11, 03:31 PM
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What kind of frame is it? I like the ratrod approach to the build. There are far too many members on these forums that are OCD beyond belief when it comes to their builds and, ultimately, this is about riding bikes and having fun, isn't it?
12-21-11, 03:42 PM
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Cool looking ride, kinda Mad Max style.
I bet if you could get a 650B rear wheel or rim, and a long enough centerpull, you can fit a huskier tire at the back. The front's hybrid fork doesn't look like it'll hinder a tire up to 45mm.
I bet if you could get a 650B rear wheel or rim, and a long enough centerpull, you can fit a huskier tire at the back. The front's hybrid fork doesn't look like it'll hinder a tire up to 45mm.
I like that, I may have to borrow it for my rat rod parts bin build.
12-21-11, 04:11 PM
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Now that's more like what my parts bin pukes up.
12-21-11, 04:36 PM
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Depending on who you ask, he was either (a) one of the primo builders or (b) a guy who couldn't braze his way out of a wet paper bag but who worked by the door and shmoozed anyone and everyone who came in, convincing them that he was "all that" while others did the real work. In the wake of the MasiCal supernova, he and Mike Howard then made Medici frames in SoCal, which at some point morphed into Simonetti frames, also made in SoCal. (At some point, Howard had some serious legal troubles, and I assume without knowing that that was a major reason for the change of moniker for the frames.)
By my reckoning, that makes an American frame, but opinions may differ. FWIW, Classic Rendezvous lists Medicis in the USA section, not the Italy section, and there is no Simonetti section in either place.
Full disclosure time: None of this is from my first-hand knowledge, but rather is from stuff I've read written both by folks who were there and folks whe weren't but talked to people who were. For one example, there is a link to an amazingly long and bitter exchange of e-rants in Classic Rendezvous in the Medici page. It deals more with who was a better friend to Mario Confente and his widow than with Medici/Simonetti frames, but there is some pertinent stuff. Don't start reading the exchange unless you (1) have a high tolerenace for increasng levels of pettiness and nastiness and (2) have an hour and a half with nothing else to do. Unfortunately, I once had both at the same time . . . .
None of this is in anyway meant to cast aspersions on the OP's bike. I hope it rides great and serves you well.
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12-21-11, 05:13 PM
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That looks like fun - and I LOVE the custom paint 
Curious about one detail: shouldn't the knobbier of the tires be on the back? Seems like asking for a high-side with all that grip up front!
Or maybe I'm just showing my ignorance regarding Mudbloods (whatever those are)...?
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Curious about one detail: shouldn't the knobbier of the tires be on the back? Seems like asking for a high-side with all that grip up front!
Or maybe I'm just showing my ignorance regarding Mudbloods (whatever those are)...?
DD
12-21-11, 05:18 PM
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12-21-11, 05:34 PM
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(in the "Looks Uglier Than Sin" category)
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(in the "Looks Uglier Than Sin" category)
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12-21-11, 05:41 PM
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Bicycle Repair Man !!!
From my parts bin...
12-21-11, 05:47 PM
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12-21-11, 07:46 PM
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Thanks for the comments and I love the parts bin build-off idea! Up until recently I had a tricolor, Arabesque and C Record group in my "parts bin"...but that sort of thing doesn't count. For this build-off it needs to be real bottom of the barrel type stuff that has been cast off into "I might use this someday"-land. Not the "saving for the right frame" parts.
The frame is a "Simonelli" LL not TT. Confirmed by the engraving in the BB shell.
It rides pretty well but desperately needs a beefier tire in the back if I'm going to do any kind of off road riding. Unfortunately, all of the cross tires I have and the x32 Paselas are too big...
The frame is a "Simonelli" LL not TT. Confirmed by the engraving in the BB shell.
It rides pretty well but desperately needs a beefier tire in the back if I'm going to do any kind of off road riding. Unfortunately, all of the cross tires I have and the x32 Paselas are too big...
