Wilier, Campag Record 11, Conservatory, grass...

pinno

...and almost all second hand.

7.3 kg's with random bottle cage.

Sodafarl

Lovely bike. Bet it is a great ride.

diamonddog

Very tasty.

pinno

Sodafarl wrote:

Lovely bike. Bet it is a great ride.

It is. Far too good for a feeble glass cranker like me but you can always lean up against a lamp post and look good with it. It is light, forgiving, responsive and for the 50+ rides, that is when you start feeling the benefits.
The thing is, I have just bought a C40...decisions, decisions, decisions.

I think the Winter Trainer is going to be a parts donor for the C40 and replace the bits with something a little less extravagent as it is senseless having Record 10 on the winter machine. However, judging by some of the winter rides in that thread, it not that overboard (the Kuota for example).

John Clark1

Sweeet. Very nice. Carbon 50s needed maybe? But tasty nonetheless.

Chapeau that man.

Sodafarl

pinarello001 wrote:

Sodafarl wrote:

Lovely bike. Bet it is a great ride.

It is. Far too good for a feeble glass cranker like me but you can always lean up against a lamp post and look good with it. It is light, forgiving, responsive and for the 50+ rides, that is when you start feeling the benefits.
The thing is, I have just bought a C40...decisions, decisions, decisions.

I think the Winter Trainer is going to be a parts donor for the C40 and replace the bits with something a little less extravagent as it is senseless having Record 10 on the winter machine. However, judging by some of the winter rides in that thread, it not that overboard (the Kuota for example).

I see what you mean about some of the winter bikes, can't wait until it is show your summer bikes.
Just took the first ride on my new bike today was nervous as hell.
Have only seen about 3 Wiliers in Norn Iron and one day I will get one (I'm not going to steal one of them).

John Clark1

Nice brick. Official Willier issue I take it?

pinno

John Clark1 wrote:

Nice brick. Official Willier issue I take it?

I carry it in my back pocket for impromptu photo shots, cars overtaking on the wrong side of the road coming towards me and getting safely through the local council scheme. It is circa 1900 ish and is handmade clay excavated from the back garden on account of wondering why the drainage was so poor.
500 perfectly preserved bricks later, it formed the base of the conservatory (pictured) in a herring bone pattern which was built my muggins in Douglas Fir, sweat, blood and tears.
A generous dose of a well known brand of water sealant that did what it said on the tin was put down before the bricks had dried fully resulting in a white residue sealed underneath the stuff what was in the tin. Some numerous un-accountable hours later with lots of cursing and a wire brush, the brick was brought up to its former glory

(You wanted to know).

blinddrew

Very easy on the eye, apart from that blue bottle cage!

slowandsteady

Yip, bottle cage shocker.

love the brick though, very classy.

nice bike too by the way

Yellow Peril

blinddrew wrote:

Very easy on the eye, apart from that blue bottle cage!

How do you know if it's easy on the eye?

John Clark1

pinarello001 wrote:

John Clark1 wrote:

Nice brick. Official Willier issue I take it?

I carry it in my back pocket for impromptu photo shots, cars overtaking on the wrong side of the road coming towards me and getting safely through the local council scheme. It is circa 1900 ish and is handmade clay excavated from the back garden on account of wondering why the drainage was so poor.
500 perfectly preserved bricks later, it formed the base of the conservatory (pictured) in a herring bone pattern which was built my muggins in Douglas Fir, sweat, blood and tears.
A generous dose of a well known brand of water sealant that did what it said on the tin was put down before the bricks had dried fully resulting in a white residue sealed underneath the stuff what was in the tin. Some numerous un-accountable hours later with lots of cursing and a wire brush, the brick was brought up to its former glory

(You wanted to know).

Coolio. Bizarrely enough I also carry a brick for lobbing at errant car drivers but mine is attached to a long piece of fishing line so I can leave it lying on pavements and the suchlike so I can play that old "pull the brick away from someone just as they are about to pick it up" game whenever I want.

Yossie used to carry, bizarrely, a cabbage at all times when he went out on his bi-cycle: it started off as a bet but then became a habit. Not the same cabbage mind you, but he always had one tucked in a poacher's pocket. Utterly bloody random. He took one away with work once and it ended up being lobbed at a prat of a Troopy in Brecon and being blamed on a passing crap hat.

not-another-hillǃ

+1 on the random blue bottle cage

nice bike otherwise

John Clark1

I must admit that I hadn't noticed the bottle cage before - I actually think that its quite cool and random. Leave it on.

M Velo

Lovely bike

tlw1

Looks fantastic, can live with the bottle cage more than the car.........

pinno

matthew h wrote:

Looks fantastic, can live with the bottle cage more than the car.........

There is good news and there is even better news.

The Ka car (not a footballer) belonged to my mother. The car has recently been scrapped.

It's last trip, to the scrappy was Colin McCrae-ish

ilm_zero7

bottle cage is naff - try the Karbona ones
; http://www.karbona.com/pro/b-3-1-18-1.jpg

John Clark1

pinarello001 wrote:

matthew h wrote:

Looks fantastic, can live with the bottle cage more than the car.........

There is good news and there is even better news.

The Ka car (not a footballer) belonged to my mother. The car has recently been scrapped.

It's last trip, to the scrappy was Colin McCrae-ish

What - in a helicopter? Fukk that's cool.

gmb

That's lovely. Why do some bikes suit Campagnolo so much?

ilm_zero7

GMB wrote:

That's lovely. Why do some bikes suit Campagnolo so much?

because some bikes have CLASS !

napoleond

Looks nice but I'd defo think about a new frame or a respray so it matches the bottle cage.

pinno

NapoleonD wrote:

Looks nice but I'd defo think about a new frame or a respray so it matches the bottle cage.

The bottle cage is staying, especially if it winds everybody up. It serves a function and if I went for a CF one, i'd be saving minimal grams so it would be just for looks.
The C40 will be the dogs bollox, but you'll have to wait.

napoleond

I like the bottle cage! I just use plastic elite ones.

Can't wait to see the c40.

pinno

NapoleonD wrote:

I like the bottle cage! I just use plastic elite ones.

Can't wait to see the c40.

It is a metal Elite with the 'buttons'. I found the plastic one's a bit flimsy. They were a left over from the Pinarello - they matched that paint scheme. I got to the very end of my budget when finishing the Wilier... such is life.

£354 for frame (damaged)
£312 for the Euruses
SR chainset bought on here for £150, BB cups and bearings included.
£200 rear mech - new
£220 gear shifters - new incl cables
£72 front mech new.
£38 11 spd chain
£55 saddle new
£40 Keo Carbons bought on here
2nd hand Chorus 11 - £60, another BR purchase
£52 Conti combo offer (23mmF/23mmR) from Wiggle or Ribble, can't remember.
H'Bars and tape - left overs
FSA carbon Seat pin and Ritchey headset - supplied with frame
Stem £14 on fleabay
Dura Ace downtube mounts - (lovely ratchet adjusting facility, very smart too) swapped over from Pinarello.

£1300 approx. for a machine that will never warrant my legs. I have never weighed it.

napoleond

Good skills!

RideOnTime

Not-another-hill! wrote:

+1 on the random blue bottle cage

nice bike otherwise

can find it in the supermarket bike rack..

arran77

Very nice P, hope it's tucked up in its winter bed now, bad weather must have well and truly started up there by now :P

pinno

arran77 wrote:

Very nice P, hope it's tucked up in its winter bed now, bad weather must have well and truly started up there by now :P

I have not told her (the Wilier) that I bought a C40 frameset... in fact they have never met. I keep them in seperate rooms.