MBK Mistral, Blue and white frame

Quick, Smooth and Easy. Just look what you can do with your old frame for few bucks, before you run and buy a new Chinese crap. This is what I call one day turn around. It took me few hours to disassemble it, clean it and get ready. Then few hour to build the wheels. And three hours, with help of Eitan and Ilya, to create a new runner. Take a look on the colors and how clean the frame is. Eitan decided to leave the colors as are and I cannot blame him. Actually it’s my second MBK, the first one got stolen, very sad story. Hopefully this one will have a better future.

Before:

And the final touch, this dude (Eitan) did his first fixie skid, right in the garage after 10 minutes of his first ride! Total cool and way to go.
However he had the best masters around)))

Andre Bertin Classic Road Frame

Unexpected but very enjoyable journey. Ilya received an old Andre Bertin road frame in awful condition. You can the picture below. He took the parts to polish, we order some new parts and set of Deep V velocity wheels. Waiting several months, during which he repainted the frame twice, finally got the color he likes. Then I have suggested to film the process of complete assembly. We took one afternoon and shoot 6 hours and the result is below. Very funny, cool and creative. The bike is gorgeous.

P.S. Very important is that I have tried for the first time to do the crow’s foot pattern on the front wheel. It happens to be polished 36 hole Campagnolo high flange hub, so crow’s foot was the best choice for it. And fortunately I did a good job.

And the movie:

Stop motion Fixie from Ilya Landa on Vimeo.

As promised, more pictures of the new bike.

The most important part is Crow's foot lacing, mazafaka!

Raleigh Winner

This was an exciting project for me! It’s all started in a quick chat via IM with a friend of mine Lev, that was not satisfied with his old bike. He said, I want vintage. But not just vintage. I want a big frame that will suite me and you know I’m 190+ cm.
For some reason, I had too much confidence in myself that day so I told, that is a piece of cake. I can found such a frame in 15 minutes. And I did. Went to second hand e-board, and found some options. One of the was in North Israel, Kibutz called Ofakim. I called the selling person and agreed to coordinate on Friday.
So on next Saturday we (me, Lev, and Max) were heading North. 4 hours all over and Raleigh Winner 60cm frame size old as hell was our starting point.
Then it took us 3 months to get the parts. One day to paint. Two days to complete. Several rounds for adjustments.
These bikes look phenomenal when they are reduced to bare bones. This is why they are extremely popular as fixed gear bikes.

This has been an awesome project to work on. I have enjoyed every step (despite the delay..lol) and the end result is just phenomenal!