First Road Bike Build - Orange Dynamo

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This will be joining my 2 mountain bikes (one of which is another Orange), both were bought frame only and self built, so no worries there. Actually I think I've only ever bought one complete bike and that was my first way back when (Giant Track if I remember right)... Will be interesting to play with road shifters and Campag stuff this time around.

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It's been a busy couple of days, yesterday many boxes were delivered and since I work freelance, I decided that there were more important things than work...



I'd bought the frame with forks, headset, stem and seatpost and had planned to use everything in the build (at least for now) but it turned out that the headset was shot, so it was replaced with a Chris King in shiny bling red.



This matched the red Hope seat clamp and QRs I had in the parts box along with the equally blingy Campag Centaur red & black group set. The supplied stem got ditched for a 110mm 0deg rise Thomson from the parts box too (OK so it's a MTB stem, but still). Chainset is an FSA Energy compact off eBay.



Bars are relatively cheap 46cm Easton EA50s for now so that I can get a feel for size, whilst the shifter positions only got set today since I didn't want to tape the bar and decide I wanted to move them. For instance I could have sworn yesterday that these were the same, but the eagle eyed amongst you will notice that the left is way lower than the right. :oops:



As for wheels, I went for the Fulcrums in the end, simply since they have a good reputation and I didn't want to spend a great deal. I got them for £135 from bike-discount.de, so I'm happy with that. If I ever upgrade them, I'll probably go for something hand built, but they are more than fine for now. Tyres are Conti GP4000S in 25mm.



After an over night issue of not having a campag cassette tool, a trip to my LBS this morning allowed me to crack on with getting the gear indexing sorted, and then it was onto the job I'd been putting off - bar tape. It turned out to be as annoyingly fiddly as I expected it to be, but after a fair amount of foul language I ended with this.



Pedals are a pair of old Ritchey MTB SPDs that again came out of the parts box but they save me from buying yet another pair of bike shoes at the moment. They weigh a ton though... As do the forks, so they will be swapped for some carbon loveliness in due course. The seatpost and stem will be changed at some point too once I've settled on saddle positioning and stem length. Overall spend has been around £850 which isn't too bad at all.

Frame: Orange Dynamo Alu
Forks: Dunno, some black chromo ones that I got with the frame
Bars: Easton EA50 46cm
Stem: Thomson X4 110mm 0deg rise
Headset: Chris King 1"
Bar Tape: Lizard Skins DSP

Front Brake Lever: Camapnolo Centaur
Front Caliper: Campagnolo Centaur
Rear Brake Lever: Campagnolo Centaur
Rear Caliper: Campagnolo Centaur

Shifters: Campagnolo Centaur
Cables: Campagnolo
Front Mech: Campagnolo Centaur
Rear Mech: Campagnolo Centaur

Seat: Charge Spoon Ti
Seat Post: Orange (ironically named) Lite Stalk
Seat Post Clamp: Hope

Cranks: FSA Energy Compact 50/34 175mm
Chain: Campagnolo + KMC Missing Link
Cassette: Campagnolo Centaur 10sp 13-26
Pedals: Ritchey SPD
Bottom Bracket: FSA

Front Wheel: Fulcrum Racing 5
Tire: Continental GP4000S

Back Wheel: Fulcrum Racing 5
Tire: Continental GP4000S

Accessories: Elite bottle cages

Weight: Just sneaks in under 9Kg, which considering the pedals weigh a tone and the seatpost & forks aren't the lightest things in the world either is pretty good by my reckoning.

What the pics don't show well is that the decals are actually a reddy kind of orange, they actually look almost red compared to the decals of my E3 in the background. So the red components / tape doesn't clash too bad in the flesh. Honest.