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Dnes potrebná (zbytočná) byrokratická návšteva UK Job Center, ale aspoň mi vyšiel čas na múzeumo. hľa..

Without hesitation due to wheather forecast (it was raining anyway) I have set from Hillingdon - Hyde Park towards Weestminister. I did some circles around center, had a few coffees and at the end of the day I met my good friends. It was good day.. Bez nejakého väčšieho váhania kôli počasiu (aj tka pršalo) som vyrazil z Hillingdon smer Hyde Park Westminister. Pochodil som si pár miest, pomotal sa a na koniec som sa stretol s mojimi dobrými kamošmi a dali spolu večeru. Vydarený deň.. On second image is Donhou 100mph bike currently in LMNH coffee bar on Old Street London  

 So today I done biking over something like 40km in London City and must say it is absolutely magnificant place. Everywhere I have went, it looked big!  Focusing rather on bike related things (one of my reasons I am in UK) this is the Part I of my London Commuting.  I have visited few places (pls refer to links below) Rapha Cycle Club, Brooks 1886, Look Mum No Hands, jus tto see particular things. Sven Cycles has its bike, Mercian, Donhou. All this is important to me to closely view the work of advanced framebuilders since I am in serious interest and may continue in this sort of craftmenship.  There is more to come in relation to above so come back if this somehow attracts your interest. Luckily I met Jens Woigt today as he went down to Rapha Cycle Club for a coffee! Nice guy, full of chat and smile:) Je asi všetkým jasné, že UK je prakticky TOP of the LINE v cyklo-sfére a vecí s tým spojenými. Prišiel som sem z dôvodov, ktoré so mnou put...

Well, I knew I once will be facing this but didn't expect it'll be this one. Better at the very beginning so I can avoid wrong steps in the future. That's the framebuilding about. I'm laughing anyways! Since I do more and more about steelwork particular the framebuilding I realize how perhaps "naive" I was. There's so much to know, so much to understand and learn that call oneself a framebuilder it's rather a joke!! Especialy when jumped on it in recent time. It takes years and dozens of frames done to say: hell yes, I got it now! Pitty for a person who it was supposed for.. Not pitty for my work or this set od pipes and lugs. After I've put in the chainstays I realized there's smth wrong as the rear wheel goes off the center line. Couldn't have figured it out but then found that the bottom bracket wasn't put in properly and it's not centered. I've tried to straighten it but the down tube cracked along the bb lug. Every milli...

Super rare track frame Bontekoe Super Course.   More details

Another frame set built precisely but this time goes bare finish. It's a challange to bring pipes to this stage and the entire brushing and polishing took me almost three days to have it done. Refer to my web page for more pictures.