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PBE14: Bishop Goes Disc w/ Beautiful Road Bike

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Chris Bishop’s Philly Bike Expo collection included two standout bikes – this track bike built with new-old-stock provided by the customer, and a gorgeous disc brake road bike that’s a mix of chromoly and stainless steel.

For this track bike, the customer sent in old Columbus steel tubes, Suntour track dropouts and Nervex Professional lugs to have Chris assemble it into this beauty. The color comes from painter to the stars Keith Anderson, and the detail work of both paint and metal is pretty fantastic. Click on through to see the details…

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The hidden seatpost clamp bolt is one of Chris’ trademark designs. He explained how he does it when we took a look at his personal bike this past summer.

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This disc brake road bike gets a mostly stainless rear triangle and fork crown with a mix of Reynolds tubes that were all tapered, with the seat and down tubes getting bigger at the bottom bracket and the top tube getting bigger at the head tube.

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Slick internal cable/hose routing exits through shapely ports on the fork and chainstay.

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Another of Bishop’s trademarks are these smoothed lug points. Note how the orange lug thins gradually until the point is virtually flush with the tube.

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You can barely see them, but the stainless seatstays come up from the bottom and sleeve over the top part of the tube. The shape is cut on a diagonal and the edges are beveled to smooth the transition. The bridge is stainless steel, too.

Chris is pretty stoked on how it turned out, saying this is one of his favorites ever.

BishopBikes.com

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Greg
Greg
9 years ago

Lovely

Pullmyfinger
Pullmyfinger
9 years ago

Green bike looks like a Mercian.

Graham Hannington
Graham Hannington
9 years ago

Tour de force. Chapeau!

knanci djreaux
knanci djreaux
9 years ago

That knurled part on the steer tube of the green bike… that’s not the headset is it? It’s just a thing to hold the fork in the display, right?

Dougal
Dougal
9 years ago

Very nice paintwork.

mudrock
mudrock
9 years ago

yes just for display. beautiful work.

Ed R
Ed R
9 years ago

Although both bikes are beautiful i gotta say I love the fork on the disk bike.

JBikes
JBikes
9 years ago

Really like that road bike.

Jay C
Jay C
9 years ago

Fork is a c-max if I am not mistaken. Wish someone made an over-sized (width wise) 28.6 crown as the max blades should be beefy enough to handle the additional torque from the disc brakes. Would make a great cross /gravel grinder fork

Jay C
Jay C
9 years ago

let me clarify / correct ceeway does sell a 51mm c to c max crown, but for raked blades

Carl
Carl
9 years ago

@pullmyfinger – I was thinking the same thing. And that’s not a bad thing. Beautiful.

McClain
McClain
9 years ago

Bishop… The definition of class. These are beautiful.

Anyone know about the stem on the disc bike? Looks sweet. I want one.

Sarks
Sarks
9 years ago

(deleted) Fabulous work! The paintjob also made my day!

Tommy
9 years ago

@McClain- that’s a Bishop built stem with a section of a cool section of some interesting octagonal tubing.

Tommy
9 years ago

^ “section of a cool section” … oops! not firing on all cylinders! My sentence is pretty convoluted.

bikeguy717
bikeguy717
9 years ago

That MD flag headtube badge is DOPE!

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