Bikeradar Giant Defy Project

bernithebiker
bernithebiker Posts: 4,148
edited November 2013 in Your road bikes
Bought a Giant Defy Composite frame off here last week for a mate of mine who has got back into cycling but is using some hideous thing from the 80's with downtube shifters!

So he deserves something a bit better and hopefully this is it; 105 groupset on offer from Merlin, finishing kit and crankset kindly left on by seller, and a donation of my old Rolf Sestriere wheels.

Comes in at 8.15kg without pedals in a Large.

As new, total build cost (excluding my wheels and tyres), 700 quid.



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  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    Can we see pictures of the 80's one with dowtube shifters please.
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • bernithebiker
    bernithebiker Posts: 4,148
    smidsy wrote:
    Can we see pictures of the 80's one with dowtube shifters please.

    Well, that's at his house.

    He bought it in a kind of car boot sale - Decathlon organise them here in France; you bring your old stuff into the shop, set a price, and then people come in one weekend and (hopefully) buy it.

    I think he paid 150 Euros for it, so pretty good for that price. I can't remember what make it is. I think it's 7 or 8 speed.

    I'll try and get a piccie. Wanna buy it?! Maybe it's some ex-pro Italian exotica worth thousands?!
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    bernithebiker wrote:
    I'll try and get a piccie. Wanna buy it?

    Maybe depends what it is and what size etc.
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • bernithebiker
    bernithebiker Posts: 4,148
    So here it is ;

    Looks like a Gypaeie or something?

    Can I retire on this?!

  • bmxboy10
    bmxboy10 Posts: 1,958
    If he is your friend tell him not to sell the 80s bike!
  • bernithebiker
    bernithebiker Posts: 4,148
    solboy10 wrote:
    If he is your friend tell him not to sell the 80s bike!

    Why? What else should he do with it? Frame it and put it on the wall?!
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    bernithebiker wrote:
    solboy10 wrote:
    If he is your friend tell him not to sell the 80s bike!

    Why? What else should he do with it? Frame it and put it on the wall?!

    Ride it, much better than the Giant.
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,168
    buy a new seat and use it in the winter / single speed it
  • bernithebiker
    bernithebiker Posts: 4,148
    smidsy wrote:
    bernithebiker wrote:
    solboy10 wrote:
    If he is your friend tell him not to sell the 80s bike!

    Why? What else should he do with it? Frame it and put it on the wall?!

    Ride it, much better than the Giant.

    I hope that's a joke! Not only is it like 50% heavier, but since when was it a good idea to reach down to the downtube to change gear?! (And then trim that gear change a bit so it doesn't rattle...)
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    bernithebiker wrote:
    I hope that's a joke!
    No joke
    bernithebiker wrote:
    Not only is it like 50% heavier, but since when was it a good idea to reach down to the downtube to change gear?! (And then trim that gear change a bit so it doesn't rattle...)
    You have much to learn young padewan.
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • bernithebiker
    bernithebiker Posts: 4,148
    OK Obi Wan, I respect your love of all things old and crap! It's yours for £200. Interested?
  • letap73
    letap73 Posts: 1,608
    bernithebiker wrote:
    OK Obi Wan, I respect your love of all things old and crap! It's yours for £200. Interested?

    I know Smidsy - don't take advantage of him, he's really more like Jar Jar Binks. Nice build by the way.
  • bernithebiker
    bernithebiker Posts: 4,148
    letap73 wrote:
    bernithebiker wrote:
    OK Obi Wan, I respect your love of all things old and crap! It's yours for £200. Interested?

    I know Smidsy - don't take advantage of him, he's really more like Jar Jar Binks. Nice build by the way.

    I am DEFINITELY not gay!
  • letap73
    letap73 Posts: 1,608
    edited November 2013
    C'mon what's not to like:


    -Jar-Jar-jar-jar-binks-25899498-640-550.jpg
  • John Clark1
    John Clark1 Posts: 268
    smidsy wrote:
    bernithebiker wrote:
    solboy10 wrote:
    If he is your friend tell him not to sell the 80s bike!

    Why? What else should he do with it? Frame it and put it on the wall?!

    Ride it, much better than the Giant.


    Seriously: its much better than the Giant. If anything the Giant has 105....................

    Tell him to keep it - it rocks. Get some cool retro kit - that thing is smart.
  • John Clark1
    John Clark1 Posts: 268
    bernithebiker wrote:

    I hope that's a joke! Not only is it like 50% heavier, but since when was it a good idea to reach down to the downtube to change gear?! (And then trim that gear change a bit so it doesn't rattle...)

    I believe that the drug taker Dopestrong retained the down tube shifter on his mountain stage bikes, so they can't be that bad ...............

    That thing is cool.
  • smidsy
    smidsy Posts: 5,273
    bernithebiker wrote:
    OK Obi Wan, I respect your love of all things old and crap! It's yours for £200. Interested?

    As I said...much to learn.
    Yellow is the new Black.
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    Great build Bernie, you've done your mate a great favour. The other bike only looks good because it's in celeste, I mean what's going on with the seat? It looks like something you'd see in an open crotch shot in a 70's porn mag
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • John Clark1
    John Clark1 Posts: 268
    Nah - its the celeste with black rims, black stem and its well smart.

    Saddle has one of those jiffy saddle covers - meant to be a gel cover but its like a huge sock that you pull over it and it just sits there all baggy chaffing away at your gooch.

    Put some black handlebar tape on, new cool race saddle, decent brake blocks and tyres and it'll rock.
  • bernithebiker
    bernithebiker Posts: 4,148
    So any takers of this fine piece of cycling history? £150?

    (All steel guaranteed, no alloy or carbon here!)
  • John Clark1
    John Clark1 Posts: 268
    If you were down the road I'd give ya£30 for it but as you are miles away then no thanks.

    Tell him to keep it and burn all the locals off on it.

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