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Anyone know of any compact bars around £40ish that have flat tops? Just realised my fsa wing pros are bent from a crash I had a month or so back :(

Zipp SL70 Ergo

Thx babe, xoxo

Thanks, hopefully it is; haven't raced it yet this year.
@Sig_Arlecchino that was the aim :-) Thank you!

beauty! whats the frame make? finish looks great!

That's a cool finish. Is it some kind of heat treatment or paint? And can anybody explain why the rails on repro flites have more stack height than the older ones?

How did you do this beauty, wow nice job !!!!

Just an observation but have noticed the edges of some original flites fouled by people slamming the saddle too far front or back, depends on the shape of the seatpost clamp as well I guess. Could be an attempt to remedy that and allow people to use the full length of the rails

Thanks Gaston :-) I like your BTA hydration solution, and that stem is very very cool!
The covers are just cones of 0.5mm polystyrene sheet, joined (on the inside) with duct tape (because solvent welding may cause the cover warp in future). These were temporarily inverted in order to apply auto wrap vinyl, with a felt squeegee and a heat gun.
It would have been nice to attach the cover using the same piece of vinyl, i.e., to avoid using electrical tape, but that was a step too far, as the outlying vinyl became distorted when it was used to secure the piece to my work surface (a glass kitchen hob top), during application. This would also make correct, concentric positioning of the cover to the wheel very difficult.
The plastic join is still visible under the vinyl, but it's as good a job as I can hope to do without stumbling upon a correct-sized/shaped RALTech cover, so I'm happy :-)
The side with no valve hole weighs just under 120g, so >24o/wheel + about 15g of tape.

Thanks! That would make sense if you mount it with a lot of setback, still a pity in terms of aesthetics.

been riding those for 2,5 years now.. great bars

brilliant result is so smooth, so klever !

Is it a 80mm rim ? bladed spokes , 24 ?

auto wrap vinyl do glue the polystyrene sheet by the outside and duct tape inside ? If I understood everything...
Otherwiseyou may probably not ride in the rain, will you ?
You can be happy boss !

This ITM Uniko is weird but stiff as hell

It only remains for me to find a front Shamal Ti and here is my vintage Nemo speed bike
Almost Full Rec 9s

The frame is a Suicycle Riot out of Hamburg. The color is called flamed-raw. I assume it is heat tinted but I don't know to tell you the truth. @Sig_Arlecchino @Rodolfo

It's an 88mm (23mm wide) Chinese rim, 28h, laced 3-cross to a silver Novatec A166SBT hub with silver Sapim CX ray spokes.
Duct tape on the inside, no glue under vinyl on the outside.
Haha, yes, probably best not to ride it in the rain!

I had a closer look around the frame but no obvious frame numbers or stamps. Dropouts are Gipiemme.
Groupset is the original Shimano 600, seatpost is Campagnolo, saddle is a Rolls, headset is Stronglight alloy, stem is Cinelli coupled with Cinelli Giro bars.

Funnily enough, I was going to buy a set of the Condor hubs today, but their web site was being funny.

I reckon they are re-badged Mavic hubs - in fact, I think you can still read the Mavic logo on the skewers.

Absolutely amazing! Is that a syntace flatforce stem?

Thanks man! I fitted some SG75s to your old Lombardia the other week for Zak. That frame is such a beaut! Incidentally, it was Zak's grandad who made me the rear-to-front conversion insert for this trispoke (shown a few pages back) - the SG75s were part of the deal. What you got in the pipeline to replace your Pre Cursa?
And yup, it's a '77mm' one. So good! Acetoned the branding.
I tried getting in touch with whoever bought yours on here when he posted it in classifieds, but they never responded to PM, so had to pay top$ for it new, although I was so pleased with its quality that it prompted a stable-wide purge of any non-Syntace stems. I put the Ti bolts on another stem/cockpit, because they allow a bit too much flex compared to the steel ones.

Great to hear that, I already regret selling Lombardia.. Hope Zak will get lots of joy out of it. I want to replace precursa with steamroller on some 38c with cambium brooks, which will be my most comfy bike to date, think I'm getting old hehe. Yeah new flatforce is pricey. Thanks for reply, good luck and have fun with that air cutting weapon!

@Lukas great build! Is that a Pursuit Champion like the one in Classifieds under all that shiny?

@tommmmmmm Cheers dude! Not taken it out to even a midweek 10 so far this year, and I'm not remotely fit, so there's little hope it of it going anywhere near as fast as it might look, ha.
Your Koga build is absolutely class btw (I'm @lukashodgson, following you on insta), love those frames, that build, and your shots mid race.

Yes, it is a Pursuit Champ! Which one in Classifieds do you mean? If it's this black one https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/303311/#comment13587198 from @allister (absolute legend), I'm happy to say the proud owner of its sister frameset, that he managed to trace for me, which has some considerable racing pedigree (maybe more on that in a future CP thread)...
The frames are the perfect size for me, and so versatile, so I got a bit greedy and currently own three.
This one wasn't in great cosmetic condition when I bought it, so thought it would be cool to try a strip and polish after seeing that Bikeradar HC bike video. Just needs a headtube decal so more people know what it is, hehe.

Zak is absolutely in love with the Lombardia, and it has a great balance of modern and retro, black and silver componentry. Don't think he's 'on here' though.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BVJnuvQB5mT_qyS39tbSF8cfrMFkyP7wF9pQfk0/

Bought a set of 2nd hand fixed hubs, brand new set of rims spokes etc and have had them built up by Broken777 only to find out when trying to whack them in my frame that the rear hub is 130 OLD, instead of being 120 as I had assumed *facepalm.

Suppose I could use them to ride fixed on a road frame..

Good news....I ordered then along with a nice k-edge garmin mount cool emjoi