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56 TT, 58 ST iirc

I while ago during a cycling tour, a friend told me his father had an old Pinarello in the basement. Turned out to be a Stelvio from oversized Deddacai Kens tubing, exactly my size so I've slowly built it up with a athena 11sp group + some chorus parts (cassette/headset/titanium seatpost). Finished it yesterday evening and took it for an evening spin.

Some small tweaks required today to get the shifting perfect, otherwise finished.

Very nice. Needs a better, square on drive side photo.

Thanks! Not square, but I guess this will do?

Damnnnnn sonnnn

nice Pina !

working on this old frame I've had forever finally building it up. 1x9 etc etc

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Cool, love the stem in particular!

Here's me trying my best not to build anything vaguely original, looks nice though.

Nice is an understatement, I'd say dope af!

That Argos looks like fun!
Orłowski arrived and couldn't wait to mock up with some wheels...

Now need to find a more classic pair

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Subtle!

Awesome!

Hah as in colour?
I've always wanted another orange bike since I had a repainted vivalo years back #csb

I've got sets on two bikes, disc and rim brake. They're good IMO and still fairly cheap over at RCZ bike shop (I paid about 15eur a pair).

Benefits I find, far easier to use in the winter when your hands are numb, easier to keep the wheel centered when doing up again as you can apply pressure more progressively.

Downsides are they're heavier, normally expensive, more or less impossible to do to their required torque spec as you can't fit a torque wrench so you just do it by feel (aka crank the fuck out of it)

I need some forum advice on this one: I'm trying to replicate the chainset set-up from the picture below.

I already have the starfish cranks but I'm looking for a suitable chainring with the same aero/solid style. Starfish cranks have 130 bcd and need rings bigger than 49t for the chain to clear the spider arms. Preferably 52t since I'm running a 19t cog and I really like the gear ratio. The bike they'll go on currently has a 3/32 drivetrain so a 3/32 chainring would be preferable. I could also change the drivetrain to 1/8 but I'd rather not. Silver or Black doesn't matter tbh but I think I'd prefer silver but I'm not really sure. Opinions on the colour are welcome since I haven't quite made my mind up yet.

If anyone has something in their parts bin that could tick the above boxes or knows of any good offers for new ones online, please let me know :) Thanks in advance!

I know this Dutch guy that makes custom chainrings for anything between €50 and €80 a piece.

http://www.themechanic-parts.com/

I send him a picture and he made an exact replica for me. And it's decent quality as well.

just built this for the missus after she expressed her desire for a riser bar bad weather bike. it turns out she hates the position and wants drops with road levers. does anyone have a pair of s500 levers and truvativ compact drops to keep the sram/truvativ theme going? (don't mind the saddle, we already have a black one, it just went back on her road bike for the time being)

Get fibre lyte aero in 52t! I might as well soon, now i have nos 631. Would love to see how it looks.

Is anyone selling some shimano hyrdro disc brakes for flat bars? Want to upgrade the Genesis

Shouldn't a bad weather bike at least sport a pair of mudguards?

fair point - already have a pair, just need to find the time to fit them. but as you can see, we are having bigger issues atm :)

@hma seems to have some hydro flat bar brakes he isn't using ;)

yup.. :) but i did not jump to offer them because they are maguras. (plastic lever julie - works great but can imagine someone not wanting them because of that)

I got some shimano (deore i think) spare. Best brakes ive used but thats not saying much. Many people can vouch for 'low' end shimano hydraulics