Metropolis single speed bike

Posted on December 27th 2011

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Two vintage bikes, few new parts and a lot of work..

French 1978 Liberia & Peugeot PX10LE turned into “the best single speed in town” project!!

Liberia 531 frame 60 C-C/ gun blued, clear coatted
Fork/ Copper plated
Crankset / Stronglight 105, 52T
Freewheel / Excess, 20T
Bottom Bracke/ Velo orange
Pedals / MKS stream
Rims / Weinmann 700C concave
Tires / Vittoria Randonneur 28″
Spokes / DT
Hubs / Maillard 700
Handlebar / Cinelli Priest
Stem / Cinelli Milano 100E
Headset / Stronglight competition
Brakes / Mafac competition/koolstops
Levers / Galli
Saddle / B17 Special
Seatpost / SR Custom
Bell / Raleigh
Leather grips/ DIY

Submitted by dominik

20 Comments Received

Jimmy Digget
December 27th, 2011 @5:21 am

Very nice!! Quite possibly the best single speed on the site.

CJoke
December 27th, 2011 @6:05 am

moah great, 10 points from here

sloman
December 27th, 2011 @7:44 am

nice simple but the bars not so much. Never been able to get comfy on that style,alway a bad wrist angle. Very cool cranks.

JaKrazyM8
December 27th, 2011 @11:42 am

Excellent blend of components to capture a unique result. 10.

Virgil Q Staphbeard
December 27th, 2011 @11:42 am

Fantastic

K-dregg
December 27th, 2011 @11:43 am

Beautiful, well done!

ddave
December 27th, 2011 @5:54 pm

Several nice bikes today. This is one for sure. Yes, 10.

AsWickedisadouche
December 28th, 2011 @1:19 am

all good, bar the handlebars and the really long headtube

human33
December 28th, 2011 @2:49 am

Thank you very much guys!

sloman
December 28th, 2011 @8:30 am

hahaha,how ,pray tell,do you shorten a headtube dude? that one you’re stuck with.REAL tough to change.

AsWickedisadouche
January 3rd, 2012 @6:36 am

^ yeah, your right not an easy one to overcome, but just the things i dont like on it, and i prefer fixed over freewheel

kubusya
January 3rd, 2012 @4:47 pm

Bravo Dominik

bobc4t
January 5th, 2012 @1:00 pm

Wowwowwowwowwow

wbizbot
January 5th, 2012 @1:09 pm

Beautiful.Love the copper-would love to hear more about it. I think the Bellvue utility bars from Velo Orange would be a great match for this build.

human33
January 5th, 2012 @5:47 pm

wbizbot,

i was actually thinking of Soma Noah’s arc bars but those Cinelli priest i got with another bike just like all the other bits, so it was mention to be. Specially because of the whole Pope Ivan II story.
Regarding frame/fork; I wanted to get “raw” retro Metropolis movie feeling, since lugs reminded me of that..
I didn’t clear cotted fork to get that rust green color in time..
I cold gun – blued frame myself with perma blue liquid for the first time..