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How about a bar with a longer reach?

Nice that Argos

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Strong page so far. Nothing beats a nice steel frame.

I'm going to rotate them a bit so the levers move down slightly but I've raised the saddle a bit and they feel ok. They just happened to be the bars I had knocking around. I want compacts and bontrager 26mm ones don't fit my hands on the drops, so I'm stuck with piega basically. The other option is an ahead adapter but... Well...

Edit: I'm an idiot, obviously. I realise there are more 26mm diameter compacts available. Maybe I should break my self-enforced <£20 bar rule for this build...

Bonts/Spotter bars

Any working voucher codes on Wiggle around?

Not sure about wiggle but probikekit has 15% off everything if you set up a new account and use FIRSTUK.

Cheers! Might have a go at that come Friday.

Good nite.

Love the Argos! Silver stem and handlebars would be nice

I've slowly been building this Faggin Campione del Monde conversion I bought from a fellow forum member over the past few months. Nice tight frame, slightly sloping tt, lots of panto in lugs, forks, brake bridge and bb housing, but was in horrendous condition.

• Campa Chorus, Omega V rims and Record bb.
  
• Cinelli 1R stem
  
• MKS Sylvan
  
  

Now saving up for a proper paintjob, new cog and maybe relace to some track hubs.

Now saving up for a period group set

you're not wrong

Never went nor ever will go for pc with this one. I'm not puppy-killing it, so next owner still can.

Late 80's / early 90's has always been my fave era with most brands, so I just went with that.

I have burdened myself with the difficult task of making a 2010 Schwinn Sprint look nice. Does anyone have ANY pictures of one that doesn't look hideous, and or, any information other than it being 853? Are the forks columbus max, who built them? Schwinn doesn't appear to have anything on their website.

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mmmm...BANGING! I have a feeling a spray can will be needed.

It's odd, it's 853, mudguard eyelets, bottle mounts, drilled front and rear which is exactly what I want, yet...ugh it's properly ruined by the paint job, to the extent I'm finding it a bit hard to get excited about the arrival.

Not sure I dislike the paint job, all black or all silver build could class it up. Did you get a bargain? Googled them and they were $999 complete otp... Seems a bargain for 853

Yes, fairly bargainacious. I guess it depends how well it's been built as to wether the 853 holds its own, but I'm interested to see how it compares to a Condor Pista (and how it looks after being rattle canned (sp?) black)

get a rad custom fade, built it up to be a SchWINn

You're Pilorget looks hot ! I'm jealous

Few news of my Somec build:

Upgrade of some 600 tricolor parts to DA 7400 (also bottom bracket) and Stronglight chainring

New cockpit, I was looking for silver stuff, but Soma Highway is much more expansive than Deda Piega, and I've found this openable 3t (100mm, 26, 22,2) payed 4€ at my favorite retailer. I had some 6700 Gunmetal levers but I prefer the shape of those Modolo on the handlebar.

So the building will be:

-Shimano 600 tricolor for: headset, seat-post, calipers (gunmetal), front derailleurs (gunmetal), shifters (gunmetal), hubs
-Dura Ace 7400 for: Crank, bottom bracket, rear derailleur
-Mavic open pro rims
-3t stem
-Deda Piega handlebar

It's coming !

-Deda Piega handlebars
-Modolo aero levers

Sweet Somec @HACHA! Those Deda bars are awesome (and quite rare - most are ergo).. I just installed the same HWY1 bars as I had before, just 2cm wider, sold the other ones to +mattyc. Swapped out the Fondriest Ti stem for a stiffer Cinelli 1A, also slightly older Record cranks so the logo matches the rest of the group (!) and a lovely Record Ti seatpost are the latest changes... Position is yet to be dialled in, but stoked that the Groupset is almost complete bar the shifters and skewers. Not changing the former due to shape, but on the lookout for the latter. Excuse the non-italian tyres, dirty bike and crappy photo...!

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I have burdened myself with the difficult task of making a 2010 Schwinn Sprint look nice. Does anyone have ANY pictures of one that doesn't look hideous, and or, any information other than it being 853? Are the forks columbus max, who built them? Schwinn doesn't appear to have anything on their website.>

I wouldn't bother rattle canning until you've ridden it a bit. Personally I'd start with all black bits, ideally ~30mm rims. If you do paint keep the chrome 3/4 stays.

Been quite some time coming but I've finally started putting together plans for a do-it-all bike. The final straw really came this summer when I wanted to do a short tour and had nothing really suited. Even before that though it had been something I'd been considering for over a year. The problem with the bikes I have are not that they're bad but there's none that really fit the utility, commuter, wet-weather, tourer mould too well.

After much back and forth I finally decided to go with something steel and disc equipped, then I spent a few months balking at the high prices of thing like the Equilibrium disc, Straggler, and basically any new frame out there - I tend to just buy second hand usually so this is a weird world - I finally broke and ordered a Kaffenback 2. Largely because the geometry of the XL should fit very well, but also because it's very cheap, and I don't intend to blow a small fortune on this particular bike.

Alongside the Kaffenback, I've ordered a bunch of cheap Planet-X finishing kit, like a 6eur bar, a 12eur seatpost, a pair of Tektro disc brakes for 24eur - I'm sure they're not the best but it gets the project off the ground. Also a few 105 parts from over at CRC in the sale yesterday, the rest I've got already, saddle, cranks, BB, DA 10 speed bar end shifters, Cane Creek single speed brake levers. That leaves just a pair of hubs or a wheelset I need to buy. The reason I've not gone straight in there is I just need to clear out a few things first, I've not actually the space to build it up immediately. Hopefully soonish though.

And so ordering the Kaffenback was Monday. Feeling then quite pleased with myself - all those parts came in cheap, and happy that finally I'm buying a sensible bike and that possibly maybe there'll be some kind of bike consolidation in the future - I decided to head over and peruse pignonfixe.com, and ended up in a place I decided to avoid like the plague. Their equivalent of the 'ebay/craigslist finds' thread is never good for my bank balance and I've long sworn to avoid it. It never ends well. Monday though I felt confident being that I was now in the world of sensible bikes. No need for anything else silly. No need for anything at all. I was sure I'd get out of that thread without buying a thing.

That was a huge mistake. 24 hours later and I now have this:

Perfectly sized Carrera titanium frame, quite possibly the worlds longest 1" Time carbon fork left in existence, a mix 'n match of parts, largely Record Titanium 8 speed. Whoops! That wasn't planned at all. But I can justify it. Kind of. It was a) cheap b) I don't actually need any of the parts on it. The plan is to flip just about everything on there and put on 10 speed parts I already have, at which point it ought to become very bargainous indeed.

And so a quick first few changes this morning, the sooner I can move things along the better:

Carbon seatpost and titanium railed Concor light saddle, position to be dialled in this lunch time. Changed the stem too, the nice carbon one is too short for just about anything I need it for so that has to go. Ironically the one i've changed it for is the same length, but that'll go in time too.

Plan is to change the brakes this afternoon for a 10 speed pair, possibly the crankset too but I'm worried about chainrub there - should I be? Got to rummage around for new cables, if I've got all I need I could even get this done by the weekend.

Temporary white saddle

OmegaCX554 - the last stays, canti bosses and cable guides to be finished - 74° HT (58 trail) to draw out beast and sandmen from your mare woods

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