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@Rik_Van_Looy
My therapist would say that my bikes are a symptom my inability to deal with loss,
and the way I ride them is an expression of self harm....
Here's the latest build, hot out of the shed... Frame was a £10.50 ebay impulse purchase, I just felt I had to rescue/look after/find out who'd made it...
Maiden ride on Roberts Race Rat was good fun, apart from a jumpy chain on the 42T ring (DuraAce AX indexing/chain too long). Being a pure TT frame, cable route for front mech was achieved with blackmagic, there's more toeverlap than my tarckbieks, and the speed wobble descending steep hills nonehanded was breathtaking. It looks rad tho. (and that's the main thing). Total project cost came in around £150 for everything.
More info here and there