battered
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We all know that the ideal number of bikes is what you have now (n) +1. Well, it happened again. I need another bike like I need another you-know-what but in my defence I was working in France and I only had 1 bike with me (the horror!). Oh and it was cheap. As in Eu40 on the last day of Trocathlon with new wheels, decent tyres and a bitsa spec with a few tasty bits. So what is it? It's a Nakamura Lyqid, about 18", looks like a MTB but has posts for downtube shifters and 700c wheels.
Good bits: new wheels, Maddux TC5.0 on a shimano and one on a cheapo hub. Decent 700c cyclocross type tyres. One's a Vittoria, one a Schwalbe. XTR rear mech as a ghetto singlespeed, so I'll rob that and put a tensioner on it or a cheaper mech, unless it's no good, in which case I'll just ride it. Easton bars. A proper chainwheel and sprocket for singly stuff, none of your old worn out kit pressed into service like I would do. The frame feels nice, my size and very (very) light.
Bad bits: cheapo worn out LX copy pedals, I'll oil them up and see if they work. The crankset is an old (shimano?) triple from the90s (I think) and looks odd with just one ring. The brakes are reversed (French...) and the rear brakes have been bodged together without the pad securing clips so that wants fixing. Rear hanger has been broken and re welded, but it looks a good job.
So it's a strange mixture of good stuff and crap bodgery. It's covered in stickers from a bike shop in that area, so I wonder if it started as a project or if one of their staff was just bolting together stuff from the bits box. The use of new wheels and proper sprockets is odd though, if I wanted to build a singly on the cheap I'd be in the bits box fishing out stuff that was not-quite-entirely worn out, I'm sure they have plenty of odd wheels and the like.
google pops up the Lyqid as eithera a carbon roady or a MTB. This looks about 2000, ally frame. Anyone know what I ahve gone out and got? Pics follow, it's a nice thing and if I get bored the parts are worth Eu40 (£35).
Good bits: new wheels, Maddux TC5.0 on a shimano and one on a cheapo hub. Decent 700c cyclocross type tyres. One's a Vittoria, one a Schwalbe. XTR rear mech as a ghetto singlespeed, so I'll rob that and put a tensioner on it or a cheaper mech, unless it's no good, in which case I'll just ride it. Easton bars. A proper chainwheel and sprocket for singly stuff, none of your old worn out kit pressed into service like I would do. The frame feels nice, my size and very (very) light.
Bad bits: cheapo worn out LX copy pedals, I'll oil them up and see if they work. The crankset is an old (shimano?) triple from the90s (I think) and looks odd with just one ring. The brakes are reversed (French...) and the rear brakes have been bodged together without the pad securing clips so that wants fixing. Rear hanger has been broken and re welded, but it looks a good job.
So it's a strange mixture of good stuff and crap bodgery. It's covered in stickers from a bike shop in that area, so I wonder if it started as a project or if one of their staff was just bolting together stuff from the bits box. The use of new wheels and proper sprockets is odd though, if I wanted to build a singly on the cheap I'd be in the bits box fishing out stuff that was not-quite-entirely worn out, I'm sure they have plenty of odd wheels and the like.
google pops up the Lyqid as eithera a carbon roady or a MTB. This looks about 2000, ally frame. Anyone know what I ahve gone out and got? Pics follow, it's a nice thing and if I get bored the parts are worth Eu40 (£35).
