My first road bike, a Roux Menthe

roux_guy
roux_guy Posts: 88
edited July 2014 in Your road bikes
This is my first road bike, bought on the Cycle to Work scheme. It's a cromoly Audax style bike with carbon forks and Sora groupset. The wheels were completely unbranded and were going graunchy at less than 200 miles so were replaced with a set of Aksiums.

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I'm really enjoying it, especially since fitting the Aksiums, and am starting to consider myself a 'roadie' after a lifetime of being an MTBer :D .

Weight 22.2 lb pre- the Aksiums, 21 lb now.

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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Brilliantly cool - love that colour. Really nice.
    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.
  • roux_guy
    roux_guy Posts: 88
    Cheers Matt, I like it. The colour is cool although my family have christened it Minty... :shock: .
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,257
    It's Bianchi Celeste, which obviously is the best colour in cycling.

    Here is a 1949 original specimen with the famous Campagnolo "Paris-Roubaix" cambio corsa derailleur... the scariest gear shift system ever

    bianchi1.jpg
    left the forum March 2023
  • roux_guy
    roux_guy Posts: 88
    Ha, ha, cheers Ugo - sounds posher that 'mint green'. Just Googled that gear change system - scary indeed :shock: .
  • borisface
    borisface Posts: 273
    Just a couple of things - saddle nose needs to be tilted down a touch as its pointing upwards a tad - the saddle should be flat. Bars need tilting up slightly as well. Other than that looks fine. Enjoy!

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