Tiger face for a young fellow named Wood. Couldn't add much more than this, no space left on the surface of the saddle. This Concor Super Corsa could also have had a sprinkling of red dots and a couple of Japanese 
crest symbols. I hope you like it Wood.
Recently completed this Rolls Titanio restoration for Fyxomatosis. Again great photos by TC. As he eloquently explains the leather is a soft lamb, the rivets were salvaged from the original.
The first piece in a new three piece 'group set'. The recovered Turbo features an abridged version of the Delaney family crest. Toe straps and stitched pursuit bars to follow soon.
This recovering of a San Marco Rolls in Navy was for Southside Bikes in navy blue. A little bit of stitch detail to to bring out the signature and a matching set of stitched leather grips on the Soma El Toro bars.
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Here are some more pictures of the RIH itself, not so much the activity of finishing off the assembly on Wednesday night. This time we have the detail of the Rolls Due and you might vaguely be able to see the busyman toe straps.
After about four months we've finally completed Ged's new fixie. I picked the frame up at Tour de Ville in London's North East back in April, complete with Campy headset and Shimano bottom bracket. It's an old Dutch frame made by a small Amsterdam establishment called RIH. Tubing is Reynolds 531 and the fork has a really nice double crown, un-drilled with chrome detailing. Decals seem almost hand painted and the stamp on the head tube would suggest the frame was made in 1979. Sourced NOS Campy Record Pista crankset from the US, Record Pista bottom bracket from a friend, seat post from the box of parts Thuy picked up at a garage sale for $10. Wheels built by Shifter Bikes using high polish Velocity B43 rims, record hubs and fine bladed spokes. Rims polished by Fyxomatosis to match their highly acclaimed chain ring. Saddle is a re-covered San Marco Rolls Due by yours truly along with the natural leather straps you can see me stitching together here. Nice stuff Ged, already turning heads in the streets of Melbourne. Hopefully some nice detail images of the whole bike coming soon.
Here's something different from Busyman and S!X and Melbourne's State of Design Festival. My contribution to the "Sculpted Packages - Reshaped" exhibition on show at Von Haus next week: Upstairs 1A Crossley Street Melbourne, across the lane way from Pelegrini's near the top end of Bourke Street.
My first custom banana saddle flies out of the country tomorrow bound for the United Arab Emirates. To be united with Albert's fully custom bling bling pimped chrome and gold low rider pictured here. This one was an exciting adventure into the unknown of new materials and techniques. The base is a Lowrider brand banana saddle, that is the pressed metal shell only. Thanks to Clarke Rubber I completely re-padded the frame to give a much sturdier and more plush seat. Adventure all the way right down to the final touch of the eyelets for the sissy bar bolts.
