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ÜOS Columbus spirit for lugs and Max fork. Painted frame weighs 1675g and the fork weighs 714g.

In Greece till the weekend but can dig them out when I get home if you want....

This is fucking bonkers. I got back from Greece just the other day. Imagine if we'd bumped into each other despite being there at different times. Would have been fucking bonkers. It's almost like no other countries exist. Get out of my mind.

If you say you were in santorini we should make babies

I built the frame.

Awesome. Looks great.

Cheap inline post that'll clamp the ovalised carbon rails on my Romin? The cheaper the better, just want to try the fit out of an inline but unfortunately don't had any hanging around. Needs to be 27.2mm.

If the Brand-X Thomson clone on CRC will work then that's great. I really don't understand ovalised rails, or why I purchased a saddle with carbon rails :-(

I have one you can have for tenner; search for gub cnc on ebay; thats the one I have; I have used it with carbon rails

Suggestions for a seatpost? 27.2mm [broke it in the weekend]

http://hubjub.co.uk/index.php/store/seat-posts/nitto-s65-detail

Latest in the line series "terrible photographs of bikes in front of my cooker":

This one. I don't know much about MTBs but I do know I like Donohue bikes with nice tubing.

I was looking at that tooo

http://hubjub.co.uk/index.php/store/seat-posts/nitto-s65-detail

Thanks! - and if I want a seat post with a chrome'ish finish in the 50£ area as well, what are my options?

If you say you were in santorini we should make babies

y u no tell me....could have hooked you up....

^^ Ritchey Classic 2-bolt, Kalloy...

^^ Ritchey Classic 2-bolt, Kalloy...

Thanks! - but with campa, cinelli, zeus on the rest of the bike, the modern chrome doesn't seem to be accepted in the family.

Finally got a day off so took this for a nice long ride today.

Still waiting on some hubs that I'll be building up to some carbon clinchers and also on the hunt for a "Flite saddle" anybody got one they want to part with?

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^gorgeous light!

Thanks! - but with campa, cinelli, zeus on the rest of the bike, the modern chrome doesn't seem to be accepted in the family.

I agree. Somes clues here perhaps?

I agree. Somes clues here perhaps?

Great link - I think some vintage Selcof might help me out http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REGGISELLA-SELCOF-TEAM-ALU-ARGENTO-27-2-x-300mm-CICLISMO-NUOVO-/370851634018?pt=Ricambi_per_biciclette&hash=item56587adb62

Nice work countryboj!

Considerate cladding detail for wheelbase clamping.

Regarding bottom bracket flex in an alu frame, how bad is it to have it when close to 17 stone. It's a Dale 2.8. Will it tear apart?

I've forget about Twickenham, good shout.

So Gruppetto is more of an elite club then?

midweek might work, but I like having a Sunday ride rather than an afterworker (which I already do with my commute).

Elitist, as opposed to elite, I'd say...

Grupetto is neither of these things. Its got a pretty broad range of ability: from national champs, to people who just ride for fun. Pretty much everyone likes beer and cake.

People on lfgss have some pretty skewed/hilarious/uninformed opinions on the club, sadly it's all rather normal and there are no criteria for entry (other than 'not a twat') or frat-house inductions.

We're a small club started by friends. Most people in it know each other, and we would like to keep it that way - so we only take in new members a couple of times a year. This means that new members can come on rides/meet people to see if they like it before they become part of the club. More often than not people who join tend to be friends of friends, which does help keep things social but we also take 'unknown' (can't think of a better word) members too.

People register their interest in joining and they'll normally get a reply saying whether we're taking new members at that time. Its not an elitist thing at all, it's simply to stop the club ballooning like Dynamo did and just becoming a bunch of chaingangers (or t-shirt buyers like Rollaz) who don't know each other.

Campag Chorus 11 speed cassette works perfectly with Dura Ace 9070.

Which we knew from "Internet wisdom", but just to add my own small anecdotal voice.

Have you run out of ways to spend money on Shimano? ;)

Regarding bottom bracket flex in an alu frame, how bad is it to have it when close to 17 stone. It's a Dale 2.8. Will it tear apart?

my cannondales have pretty much zero flex in the bb area, very stiff frames
caad 3 and caad 4's though

http://sheldonbrown.com/rinard_frametest.html

confirms this 0.36 for the 2.8
the lower the stiffer i believe, check out how stiff the cannondale track is, nothing beats it for frame stiffness

Have you run out of ways to spend money on Shimano? ;)

No one had the Shimano part in stock, hence my foray into the dark side.