It’s getting cold and darker earlier
We’re going to be closing at 6pm during the week instead of 7pm
and 4pm on Saturdays instead of 5pm
just for a little bit,
cause I’d rather be at home drinking cups of tea and reading my book
I’ve read some good books lately.
Here’s another picture of bikes in the snow
Wouldn’t it be rad if it snowed in Burn town?!
If you know Talor Browne,
you know how perfect this bike is for her
6+ months in the making
Good things come to those who wait…
The brief was make it look like a champagne bottle
classic hawthorn green
Shimano Alfine Dynamo Hub
laced to Sun CR18 27″ rim
handbuilt by Pony
hooked up to a B & M Lumotec Retro light
no need for batteries..
and the hub has a capacitor that holds a charge,
so the light doesn’t go dead when you stop at the lights…
gone are the days of bottle dynamos that drag on the wheel!!
All the old school styling provided
New chrome fenders
Bars, Stem and Headset
Brooks Leather grips.. yum!
Shimano 600 crankset purchased from Ebay
covered in filth
stripped and polished
everything old is new again
Cycle Underground Chainring in Black
Izumi chain
VP Platforms
singlespeed?
Nope
Sturmey Archer 3 Speed Internal geared hub
Laced to Sun Rims CR18 27″
Schwalbe Marathon tyres
Yep thats a brooks saddle
B67S in aged leather
Tektro long drop brake Callipers
It’s a damn fine Pony this one!!
Enjoy your bike Talor!!
It’s raining step throughs at the moment…
This sexy pink number was put together for Radar for his girl..
Aww…
aint that nice!
Blush Pink powdercoat
Pastel Pink Oury’s
and spokey dokeys
Pony Bikes… bringing spokey dokeys back,
and step throughs.
We’ve got a few kicking around the shop in very good condition if your chasing one..
deets and pics will follow soon
We’ve got a few Velocity Deep V rims hanging around in the shop,
so I built up a wheelset last week
It looks like this
Velocity Track Hubs
Flip flop rear fixed/fixed
Sapim double butted spokes
Black Nipples
Deep V rims
Machined sidewall front
Hand Built Yo!!
Soo much better
normally $650
This pair only
$500
Be quick
This is Dan’s Mash
Beautiful, light and responsive..
Secondhand Cinelli pursuit bars,
Diacompe brake,
Tektro lever
Velocity track hubset laced to B43′s
Sugino messenger crankset,
Izumi chain,
Fit Bike Co PC pedals,
BO Gears Strap On’s
Turbo faux leather saddle
Zaffiro Pro tyres
Probably the thing I love the most about the styling on this frame,
the Mash on the inside of the chainstay…
FRESH!!
NICE!!
Enjoy your bike Dan!!
What to do with a mountain bike with a shagged drivetrain that you actually enjoy riding?
Convert it to a singlespeed.
That’s what we did for Jeremy.
This is his city/shopping/load carrying bike,
and he really likes the frame.
So we stripped the drive
and axed the heavy crap suspension forks
and made it single and rigid.
Super simple and super light,
the bikes got a whole new lease on life.
I enjoy everything we do at Pony,
but I really enjoy doing things like this…
and I can’t wait to show you what’s going down in the next couple of weeks!!
Commuter Cycles is rad,
so rad that they are holding the Bicycle Black Market
A free swap meet at nighttime!
Free stalls,
followed by a free screening of Cyclocross films,
It’s in the evening, so it means that I can go,
and you should too!
Cyclocross seems to be the happening thing at the moment,
last weekend I raced (attempted) in the first of the Dirty Deeds series
organized by the excellent minds of Nik Cee and Brendan Bailey.
I have done some pretty physically demanding things in my time,
but this was brutal!!
The course beat me and I scored a DNF (did not finish)
I was one of three girls in a field of 78 riders,
so was guaranteed a position if I did finish,
but alas…
In a weekend of firsts,
I went to my first AFL game at the MCG on Friday night and got rained on,
woke up on Sunday morning with a scratchy throat and still decided to attempt the race.
‘I’ll be right’ I said confidently to myself,
‘just gotta finish’
Neither of these things came true,
and I have been nursing a cold for the better part of this week.
It has also put my training for the next one back a week,
but I’m still going to give it a bash.
Come and race, and if you don’t want to race,
come and watch,
cyclocross is definately a spectator sport.
(cx photo’s stolen from other people.. thanks)
A while back I built this for Johnathon
I have had a love affair with On One’s for quite a while now,
my best mate Double Oh Two rides one,
and back in the day when I was wrenching at cheeky monkey
we built a ton of the things with internal geared hubs
and sweet single speed city set ups.
The frames are tight, tough and sexy as…
Johnathon bought this from over seas and even though it is a large,
it was that little bit too small for him.
So Johnathon went and got this
(excuse the blurry shot’s, still need that new camera)
Pake… Larger… Better on the knees
All the bits from the Pompino,
and some super fast Panaracer tyres.
Johnathons happy,
and we’ve now got a Pompino frameset for sale
I can’t say enough good stuff about these frames.
This is a large,
measuring 56cm top tube centre to centre,
the seat tube is 51cm centre to centre,
but with the protrusion above the top tube it’s really 56 square
Enuff said….
This has been extremely well looked after,
with only a few marks on the frame.
Being sold with fork and 103mm bottom bracket
$550
Best be quick
This is Mark’s Pegasus
Attention to detail…
First up was the strip and polish of the crankset
Sugino
Everything old is new again
I appreciate Marks motivation for everything to be just so…
the brief was to get the rims to match the seat and grips.
Velocity Deep V’s,
the Velocity yellow is a lot more lemony coloured,
and powder just doesn’t have that warmth.
So the rims were painstakingly sandblasted and prepped,
and after much too-ing and fro-ing to the painters we finally managed to get the colour just right.
the next problem was building them,
paint chips quite easily,
and you can quite easily scratch a rim unintentionally when your lacing a wheel…
stressed out yes,
scratches… no.
Laced to Phil Wood High Flange Radial front
3 cross rear
MKS Royal Nuevo pedals
Soma 4 gate clips
Origin 8 double straps
Izumi chain
Yellow Concor Supercorsa
Beautiful!!
Enjoy your Pegasus Mark!
