My Look Al264

7ven

Hi, my name is Pete and I'm rather partial to a spot of drunken eBay'ing. I somehow ended up winning this Look AL264.
I didn't really need it but now it's here, I really quite like it. It's an aluminium frame with carbon forks.
I'm going to build it up with a 6700 Ultegra groupset that I have.
Other parts that I plan to use are:
Chris King 1" Sotto Voce NoThreadset
1" stem adapter
3T Ergonovas
3T ARX Team Stem (Stealth)
50mm Far Sports Carbon Rims built onto Hope RS Mono's with CX Rays
3T Ionic 0 Stealth seatpost
Donhou cable adjusters
Stainless King cages
Look Keo Blade Carbon pedals

I need a few more bits and hope to have it built up within the month.

Any idea what seats would suit this? I normally ride an SLR superlow but not sure it would suit this build. Suggestions?

7ven

MountainMonster

This is starting off very well!

looking forward to watching the build come along over time!

cubedean

love it!

housemunkey

That looks totally gorgeous, what a deal.

FransJacques

Gor-Geous! Wow, that powder blue is something special. Someone else on here had the powder green one. There was also a light yellow one.

I almost bought an AL 274 in 2001 which had a Red/Black fade with a sloping top tube and an HSC 3 fork. Not as lovely as this tho...

napoleond

Looks like a Ritte but miles better. Niiice

diamonddog

Top buying, looks very tasty.

danlikesbikes

Looks really good and love the colour, bargain too at that price

arran77

That's a stunning looking bike, love the colour and the wheels look great on it but its massive, it's almost touching the ceiling.........

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napoleond

Heh

7ven

arran77 wrote:

That's a stunning looking bike, love the colour and the wheels look great on it but its massive, it's almost touching the ceiling.........

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Ha, London life, too many bikes in a small flat, the only free bit of lounge that I could get to for this shot was the back of the couch!

tlw1

love it!

7ven

The postman brought me gifts! Selle SMP Composit & 3T ARX Team black stem for my Look.

7ven

And done:

condorbikeman

Nice - probably the best looking bike I've seen on here - excellent result

Dozzina

I like this a lot.

housemunkey

WOW :shock: 8) I think I'm in love.

cubedean

There is only one word for this....pefection.

That is one beautiful bike!

fleshtuxedo

Love it apart from the saddle!

7ven

Thanks everyone.
@fleshtuxedo There certainly seems to be a bit of dislike for the aesthetics of Selle SMP saddles. Luckily, it's amazingly comfortable and I intend to ride the sh1t out of this bike. I have a Selle Italia SLR Superflow on my other bike and channels definitely seem to agree with my guiche!

rick_chasey

Just the end looks a bit like a droopy c0ck.

Great frame though, and let's face it, no-one sees the saddle when you're on it.

Paul 8v

Great looking bike

rolf_f

Rick Chasey wrote:

Just the end looks a bit like a droopy c0ck.

Or something to rest a droopy c0ck on...... Handy if you have a hole in your bibs! Don't really get why the droopy bit needs to be droopy anyway. The only practical benefit I can think of is if you are stood astride the cross bar waiting at the lights and you get rear ended.

Andy why does it say compost on the side!

Do love the bike though. Not many bikes look good with 50mm rims but this one does.

7ven

There's a great article written by bike fitting guru Steve Hogg about SMP's here:

http://www.stevehoggbikefitting.com/bik ... bout-smps/

Rode it today with jeans on up and down the road as I didn't feel like getting my kit on. Tore me to shreads. V hard without bibs. Do not want.