Cross continent racer.

So with acceptance into the Transcontinental race 2015, I needs a new bike. For racing and much much training.

Sigma sport have some of my hard earned money as a deposit on something.

Updates next week... when it is built up!

I'll document the evolution of it here, as I'm sure there will be many changes to refine it to the bike I want.

Spesh?

Would love to have built the frame for this.

Now there is a thought!
In reality this bike is just because I now know what I want from a bike. And I don't have anything that matches it but this will. Plus it's cheap really!

Transcon is a long way off and a lot will happen between now and then, but I needed something sweet to destroy training. I plan to ride the route before the race!

Really excited for you @skinny.
Would love to do it myself but just don't have the time so will need to do it vicariously through you. Looking forward to seeing what you build.

Subscribes...

Is this where the rival 22 is coming from?

Now there is a thought!

let me know - if you promise to win, I'll give you a fiver off.

HA! I'll win, or kill myself trying!

Cheers 7Ven.
Yes Howard

Talbot second in this race. Good read I thought.

ALLARD WINS THE MONTE CARLO RALLY FOR BRITAIN

Sunbeam-Talbot 2nd. Simca Sport 3rd. Class Winners Comprise Dyna-Panhard, Volkswagen and Simca Sport. Mrs. Molander (Saab) Takes Coupe des Dames. Mike Couper's Mk.VI Bentley Wins Concours de Confort Prix d'Honneur. Weather conditions for this year's Monte Carlo Rally were tough, and it is therefore with the maximum of
satisfaction that we record how British cars and crews won through. Sydney Allard, with Guy Warburton as co-driver, Tom Lush as navigator, won the Rally outright for Britain in a Type P Allard saloon—first British victory since Donald Healey's Invicta won in 1931. Stirling Moss, in his first rally, came second, four marks behind, in a Sunbeam-Talbot 90 saloon with Desmond (B.R.D.C.) Scannell and John Cooper as his coadventurers. Third place went to Mon. and Mme. Angelvin in a small o.h.v. eight-speed Si mca Sport—truly creditable. It is significant that the winning car had a comparatively " woolly " 4,375 c.c. V8 side valve engine giving lots of torque at low speed, a three-speed gearbox and simple divided-axle coil spring i.f.s. Its basic list price is ELMO. It used Dunlop Trakgrip tyres, Pneugrippa-ed, a Trico screen washer, Shell petrol, Vigzol oil, Lucas electrical equipment, and, of course, Ferodo lined its Lockheed brakes and its clutch. In .contrast, Moss' Sunbeam-Talbot had a comparatively high-efficiency 2,267 o.h.v. engine, four-speed box
and coil spring i.f.s. It relied on Dunlop tyres, Shell fuel and oil and Lucas electrics. It cost 1845 (basic) at the time of the Rally. Mike Couper, who makes a habit of doing so, won the premier honour in the Concours de Contort with an elaboratelyequipped Mark VI Bentley saloon. Outstanding was the victory of Greta Molander in the Coupe des Dames, .driving a tiny 764-c.c. two-stroke Saab 92. Salutations on the British victory will be found in this month's Editorial.
TIE best way of convincing oneself of the strenuousness of the Monte Carlo Rally and of better appreciating. the virtuosity of the ears and crews Which won through is to mushier the misfortunes of those who failed ! Out of 369 entries, 32S started, but, note, only 163 reached the finish (and not all were on tittle) and of these only fifteen did so with no loss of marks ; 165 retirements, 148 penalisations I It tells it own tale. 'Those excellent fifteen deserve mention : Five Peugeots, two Jaguars, two Simea$ and an Allard, Austin, Citroen, Talbot, Lao, Sunbeam-Tullmt and Jupiter. Some were eliminated, or lost a hopeless amount of time, due to mechanical .derangements intervening before their .2,0no mile mid-winter journey was completed. The clutch of " Buster " Bartlett's Vauxhall early began to slip, and a Ford Pilot nearly lost time with an ignition short before Folkestone. Even Allard found a (Inn working loose after leaving Glasgow. One Javelin blew a gasket, Mrs. Vaughan's Javelin holed its petrol tank and Caught tire, on another the throttle wire broke, then, repaired, jammed [we never have liked throttle
cables and another Javelin driver lost marks for opening his bonnet in the Pare Fern-ie. Foster's Javelin had a puncture. The Reece brothers went magnificently in their Ford Anglia until a defective fuel pump delayed them.
But mostly the 1052 Monte Carlo Rally was a story of crashes and ditchings in the snow and lee from ClermontFerrand onwards. Hereafter conditions were terrible and car after car either collided with objects mobile or stationary or slid into snow banks and ditches.
Ken Wharton's Ford fell over a ravine on to a crashed Citroen, Gordon Wilkins ditched his Mark VII Jaguar and another car carried away his de-ditching gear as he and Baxter were trying to retrieve it. Louis Chiron's Alfa-Romeo ditched good and proper, was pulled out, only to be pushed in again by another Skidding car. Ellison damaged his Jupiter coupe, Bartlett crashed his Vauxhall, Waring's Mark VII Jaguar was immobile on sheet ice outside Le Puy. Ace-rally man Ian Appleyard just couldn't see his way through the blizzard. Becquart hit a dog with his Farina-bodied Jupiter in Paris. So the grim tale went on and on--cars damaged, minor injuries, alas, a fatality when Berger crashed in a Citroen near Rheims. It was a dangerous, grim run and through it all Allard and Moss claimed clean scores for Britain.
There was still the Regularity Test, over snow packed on ice, and in this Allard set seal to his great victory, although he smote a wall hard enough to damage a front wing and buckle a wheel. Moss went off the road momentarily into a snow bank. The final results showed Allard foar marks ahead of Moss, both drivers putting up a show for which they deserve the warmest congratulations and which has given a valuable uplift to British prestige. Fifty ears took this test, -which involved averaging exactly 45 k.p.h. over a circuit (open to normal traffic !) over the Col de Braus. Actually, of course, 35 of these competitors had already been penalised on the read-section, so that although a Henry J. kaiser and a Javelin did better than the winning Allard and Moss.' Sunbeam-Talbot, they were put back to 20th and 16th places, respectively, when their road misdemeanours were taken into
account. In the first 15 were two Mark VII Jaguars, a Jupiter, and an Austin, Becquart's Jupiter being second in the Ei-litre class and David Murray's Ford Anglia, our least expensive car, third in the 1,100-c.c. class. Finally, came the Concours de Confort, in which, again, great prestige is won, for the spectators at Monte Carlo study critically the assembled cars. Tommy Wisdom's big Hooper-bodied Dabbler, which had been amongst the select 50 to get into the Regularity Test and was placed 47th in the final results, seemed a likely winner, but in the end Mike Couper's Mark VI Bentley was judged the absolute Concours winner with Waring's Mark VII Jaguar first in the big-car class. Cooper was 103rd in the Rally itself, Waring 156th. Britain scored another outstanding success when the Hillman Minx of Anderson and Kemsley were placed first and second in the 14-litre class, Anderson's also taking the prize for the best Rally-equipped car --a splendid tribute to ears whose basic price at the time was only I:450. The German MercedesBenz team of Caracciola, Kling and Lang had to be content with the Charles Farenx Cup and special prizes for Rally-equipped cars. The results of a great Rally which proved a severe test, so ably organised by Mon. Islogliks, follow
let.: s. H. Allard (4,375-c.c. Allard) 130 marks lost.
2nd. : S. Moss (2,267-c.c. Sunbeam-Talbot) 134 marks lost.
3rd. : M. Angelvin (1,221-c.c. Simca Sport) 139 marks lost. CLASS AVINNERS 750 0.0. : M. (;rosg04eat Wyna,Panbar(1), 21st. 1,100 C.C.: M. Nathan (Volkswagen), 52nd. 1.500 C.C. : M. Angelvin (Sham-Sport), .3rd. COCPE DES DAMES: Mn. G. Moluader (Saab 94),
91st. CONCOURS DB CONPORT
PRIX DIIONNEUR IV, M. Canter (Bentley\ 103rd. OVER 1,50) C.C. : W. Waring (Jaguar), (511th.
Ur co 1,500 C.C.: M. B. Anderson (1111bnan-Minx), 157th. Ur TO 1,100 : ft. W. Mall& (Saab 92), 07th. UP TO 750 0.0. : M. Daisy (Dyna-Panhard), 100th. tom RALLY Cut: M. B. Anderson (ilillman Minx), 157thr (PigareS after the ears are placing in the final Rally results.) "MOTOR SPORT" CLUBS TROPHY
The M ll'OR SPORT Clubs (11.1 I lenge Trophy and £50 cash prize will again be contested this year at Silverstone under the mica which prevailed last year. This year additional prizes of .£20 for the driver of the sports-car placed second and £10 for the driver placed third will be awarded. Next month we shall list the Clubs which are putting on the special Moron Sewer races in which points are scored in this annual contest.

The next Mike Hall, but with a less jauntly saddle angle.

AS from the shop. I'd say it looks better now, but that's not true.

Lots to change. But the main part is there, cayo disc with hydraulic.
Now to train and ride it into the ground.

Not sure what I was expecting but it wasn't a +£2k roadbike with hydraulics and 6800 that's for sure!
It looks lovely though.
What an awesome adventure you're embarking on.

And it's a good thing bikes are for riding, not shows.

Thought you'd bought a Synapse for a second there.

No racks?

Don't worry, we're sorting out a low trail disc fork for his Gilles Berthoud handlebar bag.

^Lol

This bike is seriously good.

8/10 for the frame, few things that I'd change, but for the cost it's good. Compared with Specilizeds offerings at 6K!

9/10 Ultergra di2 hydraulic is the future. Once you go hydro you won't be satisfied without it.

We soon will know how reliable these components are.

Mike has races these components.

Used them in RAAM. So they're reliable.

A while ago, there were a handful of people in an audax ride with Di2, which stopped working during the 3rd day of riding, resulting in some of them setting the screw limiter to ride on.

However, those were (very likely) the previous generations of Di2 that got snapped up by #buyer.

awesome looking bike

Dat seatpost

An easy 3/4 peg leg for you.

No racks?

I wouldn't. I'd be looking at Apidura luggage (front, frame and rear packs). No sticky-outy panniers destroying CdA.

Then adding some reliable mudguards (crudracers or the like) and aero-bars set up for all day comfort.

The faster of the Audax lot are moving to this model over (although most used to use rack packs rather than panniers).

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