Condor Cycles Owners Club

Custom sizing or OTP?

Yeh, custom sized/built last year.

I wonder if anyone can help with some Condor advice.
I recently acquired this lovely Acciaio from a fellow forumer.
However it seems not to accept 130mm rear wheel - anyone encountered this before?

Tried to fit a Mavic Aksium on the back with no success.
Did they make these 126mm spaced?
Any advice appreciated!

@robinmarine that doesn't look like a frame from the time when 6/7 speeds were in common use, I guess the late 80's? I'd say it's either been altered on purpose (weird) or been crushed by accident in transit. If the latter I doubt it would have ended up even i.e. one stay will be in in more than the other.
a crude check would be to string the frame from the rear dropouts around the headube and the measure the distance from the string to the seat tube.
The other way to is to put something (pencil etc) across the rear dropouts and string from the pencil past the seat tube around the headtube and back down the other side onto the pencil, then measure from the inside of the DO on each side and it should be the same.

This guy here has a few method for determing "straightness" and I think SheldonBrown has some stuff as well.
http://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=59332&hilit=string
this site is good as well
http://www.mytenspeeds.com/My_TenSpeeds_1/Site%20Contents/How_To_Do_It/FrameSetPrep_5_StringingFrameSet.htm

Have you spoken to forumer who sold it to you?

Thanks @TheShipwright - I thought it would be a bit odd, frame must be at least from the 2000s.

Weirdly did the string trick earlier - both sides were equal!
Will try the pencil as you mention to see if that gives a different reading.

Forumer is a great chap and informed me he ran Fulcrum racing 7s on it- which must be 130mm spaced

Who is selling the Condor Accicaio on eBay ATM? XL size.

PM me.

I believe it's @ObiWomKenobi.... See previous page.

Lets talk

Do Condors come up online in a size 49 much? eBay etc.
Always looking for one, but never seem to find em. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.

Never posted my Condor..

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oof. good job.

Looks great!

Haven't done anything to set up apart from lower seatpost!

wheels might be the key then, really set it off!

It's fast 🏃🏻

My bike with gears. Super nice to ride, steel feels good after a few years of carbon fibre bikes.

Needs better wheels.

Re-built my Tempo for a weekend riding the gravel trails in the New Forest..

Plenty of room for 32c Gravel King SK's

Nice - what fork?

My tempo cracked :(

May be selling this complete soon.

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Hmmm maybe shouldn't gravel it :/

It's a Fratello disc fork

Nah. It will be fine. Mine was from a know batch which was fuxxored. There is a thread on here documenting the numerous seat cluster cracks.