Another New bike build.....
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robbie the roadie wrote:Cycling - The pastime of spending large sums of money you don't really have on something you don't really need.
After all you say it in your sig.
It doesn't always work out more expensive building your own bike - it might do if you don't shop around for bargains.
My Nero Corsa worked out about £200 cheaper than if I had bought it from Ribble with roughly the same componentry.
And at least I can say I selected each component because that was what I wanted, and not what the manufacturer wanted me to have.0 -
You could get new 08 Mirage hubs, Open Pro rims and ACI spokes for about £105 quid - these would build into a terrific pair of training wheels. Campags patent dissolving freehub design would mean a new one of these most winters, but that's not cripplingly expensive.0
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robbarker wrote:You could get new 08 Mirage hubs, Open Pro rims and ACI spokes for about £105 quid - these would build into a terrific pair of training wheels. Campags patent dissolving freehub design would mean a new one of these most winters, but that's not cripplingly expensive.
Do you mean build them myself? Or would I be able to get them from a wheelbuilder for around the £105 mark? Is it just the lower level hubs that have a poor reliability record, or does it stand for the whole range?
So far...
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That's just for the bits. Wheelbuilders charge from about £10 per wheel upwards for the build.
You're welcome to come down and use the workshop if you don't want to splash out on tools. I'll show you what to do or give you the books and let you crack on! 4 hour job for your first pair I would guess. You can use the SG6 to cut yor steerer down accurately too, if you know how long you want it.0 -
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Thats a fine lookin bike , ur not gona want to put mudgaurds and lights on it when its done.0
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muz250 wrote:Thats a fine lookin bike , ur not gona want to put mudgaurds and lights on it when its done.
I know what you mean about mudguards, I can't get them to not rattle on my commuting bike, they infuriate me, especially on the poorly surfaced roads on my commute.
I'll probably not put the guards on, until winter at least.0 -
it is shaping up to look good!
you won't want to make it a winter bike at this rate
whats the running cost total so far? - thats a sweet looking bike - a lot of first time road bike riders could learn from this!0 -
Should be ready to start my value build in a couple of days - I've gone for what I think is the Dolan equivalent of this frame (Preffissio or summat) for my daughter - using the 9 speed 105/Ultegra off my old LeMond that I've just replaced with a Spesh Roubaix like gkerr4's.
The new bits are the bars, stem, crankset and I expect, saddle. Just deciding if I need one more wheel as we'll now have 5 between us, and 6 might be better.
Spend will be about 305 - 340 depending on the saddle, but it should be nice.0 -
gkerr4 wrote:it is shaping up to look good!
you won't want to make it a winter bike at this rate
whats the running cost total so far? - thats a sweet looking bike - a lot of first time road bike riders could learn from this!
I'd totally lost track with this thread.
At the moment it's looking like:
Frameset £140
Groupset £200
Seatpost + handlebars £26
Wheels (Campag Ventos) + Veloce Cassette £110
So all up £476, no bad for a 10 speed bike, with a mid range groupset and slightly above bottom range wheels.0 -
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I've lusted after one of those Ribble frame for a while now, as a possible sporty alternative to my current Sirrus - I'd keep the Sirrus bits and uprate the frame
Or maybe dump my 531...anyone want an old 21" 531 with some surface rust, complete with tatty bits?
Sigh
It's just a hill. Get over it.0 -
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gkerr4 wrote:it is shaping up to look good!
you won't want to make it a winter bike at this rate
whats the running cost total so far? - thats a sweet looking bike - a lot of first time road bike riders could learn from this!
Must say I totaly agree, that bike is far better than the Trek I paid £600 for and it Will turn out to be about £100 cheaper, plus the satisfaction of building it yourself.
U need to get that thing finnished off and give us a road test, U have a good selection of bikes to be able to judge what is a good value bike.0 -
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Looks nice - not sure that we can let you off for the black tape / saddle combo - we know it's a winter bike, but we are in spring just now!!
have you ridden it yet? - whats it like?
more to the point - what are the wheels like? - did we waste our money on the neutron ultra / eurus respectively for our summer bike builts??0 -
Haven't been out on it yet - cut the steerer, whacked the starnut in and taped up the bars while watching L-B-L.
Might give it run outside after if it dries up.
The Ventos are a hell of a lot heavier than my Neutrons, so I think I should be able to tell the difference in accelerating them - probably won't be much difference on the flat though.0 -
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Quality is all I can say. As it was nice, sunny and dry this morning I cycled to work on it. I could really tell the difference between it and my commuting bike - I was managing to sustain 18mph on some of the less steep climbs, 3mph more than normal.
For a bike less than £500 - it has no competition. No other bike in the price range could beat it at anything (except perhaps visually). Why buy a Specialized/Trek/Giant etc with Sora or if you are lucky Tiagra, when you can build a better one with Veloce/Centaur for less?
I'm actually considering droping the handlebars a bit more - it's pretty comfortable. I nearly had a nasty off though as I was cresting a small climb and my handlebars rotated forward a bit - oops I guess I didn't tighten the stem face bolts enough after I'd cut the steerer.0
