Sab frame from Planet X

roubaixtom
roubaixtom Posts: 316
edited July 2014 in Workshop
Hi,

I'm wanting to build a winter trainng bike and have about £300 to spend. I already have wheels and a few other bits a pieces. There is a sab frame on Planet X for £50. It has a 1 inch headset. Where do I find forks and headset for that? Etc

Is it a good frame?

Any other Ideas?
Here is the frame:
http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/FRSABALR40 ... road-frame

Thanks

Tom

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  • benmac75
    benmac75 Posts: 53
    Quite a few places still sell 1" forks, headsets etc. Here's a couple of cheapies. You'll need a stem too or a shim to reduce a bigger one down to 1".

    http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/road-t ... snaforr190

    http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/sp/road-t ... parhstr250

    http://www.highonbikes.com/controls/han ... -to-1.html
  • gtd.
    gtd. Posts: 626
    It also has an Italian threaded 70mm wide bottom bracket shell, so you'll need a suitable bottom bracket (not ISO BSA)
    http://www.sheldonbrown.com/bbsize.html
    Italian bottom brackets are 70 mm wide, as opposed to the usual 68 mm dimension of British/ISO and French bottom brackets. The cup diameter is also larger. Sometimes, bicycles which have damaged bottom-bracket threads are machined out to Italian size to eliminate the damaged threads. Italian bottom brackets, like the French, use a right-hand thread on both sides, so the fixed cup is prone to loosening up unless very securely tightened or secured with threadlock compound.
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Forks headset everywhere - Planet X or try the ribble discounted fork PDF thing.

    Stem: Planet X have loads or shim - simple as.

    The frame will be a basic Ali frame, do the job quite nicely I reckon. Price it up against a Ribble one though (the ubiquitous blue one that is fantastic value for money).

    But overall, why the hell not - it's only £50 so worth a punt.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Moonbiker
    Moonbiker Posts: 1,706
    Tempted by this also seems a bargin.

    Really liked the look of some of the ones the carbon rear triangles also but they mostly seem to have sold out now :cry:

    Im 5 10" slighlty shorter than average inside leg so unsure if 52cm or a 55cm would be best size. Current bike is 53cm.

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