Arthur Caygill road frame

I'm from helsinki, but thought I could start writing a bit more on lfgss. Haven't been posting here that much and got a couple of frames to build up...

So I bought this a couple weeks back:

Its pretty much 56square -my size

I've already got a road bike (which I actually took to London with me last autumn), so I'm going to start of by building this new frame into one of those trendy mtb geared hybrids with riser bars. Helsinki really wasn't getting any snow, so I thought I could've used this for commuting, but winter decided to come after all.

I cleaned the bb, faced the headtube, and checked out the frame. Everything is straight -just a fair deal of chips and scratches -no dents. Can't remember how much it weighed frame only, but got it written up somewhere. Also drilled a whole at the bottom of the bb shell, but just realized I forgot to paint it...

The chainstays and the seat tube neither had a ventilation hole so I might drill them also...

One reason also to buying this was the carbon fork, which I'd want to try on my GT edge. Thats why I'm swapping the fork into an aluminium one I got lying about:

Then I've got some DA 7402 calipers, which should eventually go on the GT also (I've had these waiting for about two years now), but they're missing the 'cable stoppers' or whatever thy're called. I searched something similar from work to test them out on this bike first. then I'll swap the tektros from the GT with these.

More to come

The straight alu fork still had a 600 crown race on -very tight- and the Chorus headset on the bike was fairly rough, so I dug out and cleaned the 600 headset which appeared to be all good. Bearings were smooth, but I'll open and clean them properly eventually.

Brakes seem to work, xt 8spd rear mech and shifter installed, mtb cassette, random wheels and a straight bar -as the xt shifter wont fit on risers.

It's a pitty I wont get to test it properly tomorrow as its all snowy over here atm.

Built up photo tomorrow

Surprisingly 32mm durano fit easily in the rear triangle.

Now I need to think what next. Would be nice to build this with 105 or ultegra for the summer...
So much snow outside that I won't be able to ride this yet.

update. so i managed to kindof accidentally collect quite a coherent -well i think coherent- group of 6600 and 6400 parts.

originally i was planning on more black bits, but now im thinking more silver.

the fork is a 1" steel unicrown with fairly similar metallic blue as the frame decals... Colnago stickers already removed

So did you get to ride it, as you had it built up?

So did you get to ride it, as you had it built up?

Well it felt pretty much like the Langdale when i had it with gears. Only rode it a bit cause last winter was really wet and preferred to ride mostly this

Now im waiting for the cassette and chain to come from the post so that ill get to test it with drops.

Well it felt pretty much like the preferred to ride mostly this

That's pure FBNPNA

thanks
-took me a while to figure out the letters...

its one of my bad weather bikes.

looking forward to seeing this built up into road mode :)

Im really looking forward to see this ready also. Apparently the last parts were shipped today so should be in finland by wednesday...

Wheels will be off my gt. 6600 hubs i got from an old friend when i lived in scotland and rims i got from my boss last autumn to test out. Outside profile is bit over 23 or 24mm wide so i wont be riding anything smaller than 25s. The gt is getting a period correct wheelset and one step closer to being ready. tricolor x cxp12.

Im actually building the caygill, cause i dont want to use the gt too much. Everything works perfect on it, but im afraid it wont much longer... -Old parts etc.

sooo, i got the wheels sorted now. Took the front wheel to work and checked the rim width. -24mm.

Duranos also seem slimmer than what they are marked as, so i might try some other road tyres later on. Any suggestions for 25mm wide road tyres?
I might service the front hub also as i rode it winter time. Atleast outwards it doesnt look too good.

Theres also a problem.
Cable routing is for left rear, right front instead of the right, european way. Top tube routing for the rear goes in on the right side instead of left. The rear brake cable doesnt really seem to go nicely so i might need to make some special/additional loop of cabling or smthng to make it go nicely...

Shit mobile photo.
Rode it this week. Feels a bit long, so ill have to check how much setback the post has. Kindof looks like it needs more silver parts. Ive got a silver integralter i could try but i really hate the cable routing and atleast the last time i had it on a bike, it was a horrible job to get the brake cable routings to work...
I dont think the blue fork looks that much off to the decal blue. I think ill also try a red slr with silver post.
Everything works fine except the cable routing around the headtube area is a mess. bad crossings with brake and gear cables.