TT bike on a budget UPDATED 190614

napoleond

Built this up with a mix of stuff from eBay, the classifieds and ridiculously cheap wiggle/ribble deals for the chainset, mechs, chain and shifters.

Maiden voyage tomorrow when rear brake cable is fitted. Position will be tweaked, I anticipate saddle raised a touch and tilted down a smidge. Bars rotated up a couple of degrees. Need to tape bars too.



Frame/fork - Swiss 3k full CF. Won on eBay for a song.
Wheels- Wheelsmith 50mm with cx rays and pmp hubs, bought off here. Although I have a powertap G3 open pro that will be shod with some Raltech disc covers soon.
Bars- 3T Aura Pro bought off here
Group- Ultegra 6800 (DA 9000 shifters, Campag chorus cassette) all brand new from Wiggle/Ribble except cassette that I already had.
Brakes- Zero Gravity Ti - bought off here a couple of years ago.
Brake levers- 3T brand new
Peggles- Speedplay Zero - swap between bikes
Saddle- some effort off my old Quintana Roo from years ago.
Total build cost with the carbon wheels and including what I paid for the old stuff is under a grand
Weight is 8kg on the nose
Can't wait to try it out!

declan1

That looks really nice. Great price for it all too!

RideOnTime

looks the business...

MountainMonster

That seems like a pretty sweet deal! Looks great!

Enjoy your maiden voyage. I need to get myself a TT bike.

tim_wand

Amazing whats in the POCA warehouse nowadays

drlodge

Very nice NapD, nice looking bike at a very good price overall. I likes.

ugo.santalucia

just a thought... when you fit the disc cover, do you still get signal from the PT hub?

napoleond

Yeah, no problem at all. I used to have one on my old TT bike with an SL+ powertap.

Maiden voyage went well, rode it to Cyclestore to pick up a rear brake cable. It took numerous adjustments but once I got to the shop in Congleton I was pretty happy. Rode sweetspot home and this happened.

riggsy81

nice bike and nice ride there...

Colinthecop

Going by the Strava results, forget doing TT's and use that as your main bike.... 8)

napoleond

Cheers

I'm made up with it! Gets it's maiden '10' on weds. My PB on the course is 22.49 but that's with full kit. I'll be happy with a 23.

Frame/fork was 200 quid.

Miles253

Bargain price for a lush bike! Love it

riggsy81

NapoleonD wrote:

Cheers

I'm made up with it! Gets it's maiden '10' on weds. My PB on the course is 22.49 but that's with full kit. I'll be happy with a 23.

Frame/fork was 200 quid.

You doing Chelford time trial??

napoleond

No, Macc Wheelers at Gawsworth.

oldredpinarello

Is the campy cassette ok with the shimano group set?

napoleond

Absolutely perfect.

Yellow Peril

Nap, any verdict on the bike/frame after your first TT on it?

napoleond

It seems pretty damn good really! Certainly stiff enough. I'm currently still trying to get my position dialled in.
It's 'old school' in that the gear cables are externally routed and no fancy hidden brakes etc. so it won't be the fastest frame out there by any stretch but for what I paid it's fine. I actually think it's a bit too big so may end up selling
That said due to the geometry being more like a road bike's it would make an excellent aero road frame...

Yellow Peril

NapoleonD wrote:

It seems pretty damn good really! Certainly stiff enough. I'm currently still trying to get my position dialled in.
It's 'old school' in that the gear cables are externally routed and no fancy hidden brakes etc. so it won't be the fastest frame out there by any stretch but for what I paid it's fine. I actually think it's a bit too big so may end up selling
That said due to the geometry being more like a road bike's it would make an excellent aero road frame...

Is it a large? Don't think I've ever seen one before.

woody0010

NapoleonD wrote:

It seems pretty damn good really! Certainly stiff enough. I'm currently still trying to get my position dialled in.
It's 'old school' in that the gear cables are externally routed and no fancy hidden brakes etc. so it won't be the fastest frame out there by any stretch but for what I paid it's fine. I actually think it's a bit too big so may end up selling
That said due to the geometry being more like a road bike's it would make an excellent aero road frame...

Thats a lovely looking bike mate. What size is the bike? I may just be in the mar get for a TT bike if its going on sale

napoleond

Cheers, set an all time 5 min power PB on it last night dialling in position! Something's working right...
It's a 58cm too tube so generally considered an XL

napoleond

Still getting position sorted on this. Managed a couple of hrs on it today with as much time in the TT position trying to get used to it.
I've ordered some disc covers from Raltech for my powertap wheel and pick up an ADR trispoke front tomorrow.
I'm at Adrian Timmis' next week for a fit. That'll confirm if the frame is wrong. If so it'll be up for sale for what I paid for it.

borisface

If you're struggling to get the position dialled it looks like the fork steerer maybe cut too short for you. The saddle to bars drop seems pretty big unless you're pretty flexy (I;m not anymore sadly!). Nice bike though.

napoleond

Front end is fine, loads of scope for adjustmemt, not least I have some 6cm risers available for the bars. That said the bars are slammed, I just can't get the saddle forward enough, it's actually higher than that at the mo!

napoleond

Made the 45 mile round trip to pick up my ADR tri spoke wheel today from the shop in Gatley. It was 'out for testing'. I hate being faffed about. Told them I'd leave it.

napoleond

That looks great
Yeah, I've been looking a fair bit. I'm going to wait and see what Ada says next week. I may end up getting a new frame!

napoleond

Update!

Had my bike fit with Ada, yeah the seat angle is slack but I'm fine on it. I feel super strong and planted on there now, and aero too.
Picked up a bargain eBay Hed 3 front tubular after being messed about by BikeHaus/ADR.
Got the Raltech carbon fibre disc covers for my powertap wheel today and fitted them. Will need a bit of tweaking as the cassette is fouling against the cover slightly. I'll try a very thin spacer but that may mean not enough room for the 12t sprocket.
Not ridden it in anger since the fit yet let alone with the tri spoke/disc. Can't wait to give it max QuadPower(Tm)

Swiss TT bike Hed 3 Raltech Disc Cover Powertap by NapD, on Flickr

napoleond

Sorted the fouling issue, added spacer and actually fitted the bl00dy thing properly! It actually sounds not far off a proper disc wheel. I'm very impressed.
Going to measure up and get a set for my track bike.

drlodge

NapoleonD wrote:

Update!

[cut pointless babble, get to the photo...]

Swiss TT bike Hed 3 Raltech Disc Cover Powertap by NapD, on Flickr

Now that looks like one mean machine!

Yellow Peril

Very nice Nap. Any noticeable iperformance improvement with the covers and tri-spoke over your normal wheels?

napoleond

Yellow Peril wrote:

Very nice Nap. Any noticeable iperformance improvement with the covers and tri-spoke over your normal wheels?

Dunno yet, but based on what I used to have it'll be somewhat significant. Work has made me miss all the TTs this week.