neo-retro-fluoro goodness

@BlesUp thanks man.

Speaking of which - this is the best pic I could get of what I thought was a crack. Pretty much certain I was just being neurotic

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Right. Now that exams are done this has finally gone somewhere. I went over all the paint chips with clear nail varnish, greased threads and such and built everything up. Also managed to get the brakes working without any trouble.

All that's left to do now is route the gear cables and have a crack at indexing. Spending >£10 on cable cutters was definitely a very good move.

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Oh and pedals - if anyone has some Looks they want rid of, I'll grab em. Ideally would like relatively new/black ones.

Got some keo classics here for £10
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/305433/ couple of scuffs though

Gah - not even riding it yet. Do the right thing and sell it to me.

Dreaming about it though. A month of straight exams, and not actually being in the same houses as the bike, has thwarted progress. Done by the end of the week for sure... assuming I can get to grip with gear indexing...

What a head adapter did you use?

Is it done? I have spare Looks

Just some kind of very cheap Zenith one

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Seems like a good time to do an update. So very soon after getting the frame and getting the thing rolling, I landed myself in a full time job for the summer and time to work on this slipped away. It got about 200kms use but there were a few problems. The first, and most annoying, of these was to do with the headset adaptor (@dazzrie be warned...); it or the headset constantly slipped, meaning there was a lot of juddering and vibration at the front end. This would literally get noticeably as the ks passed. I also never quite got the gears indexed properly and the Chinese carbon post just slipped constantly, again meaning rides ended in excruciating pain, with the saddle like 15 degrees up.

I've also used the wheels on my everything-else road bike, so it's currently sitting around with no wheels receiving much less love than it deserves :(((. I think it's quite likely to hit classifieds soon, but if anyone wants to jump in for everything minus wheels (and I think a different saddle - will check) I'm all ears.

It feels like a shame to come this far then tap out, but my degree is piling so much work on me I just don't have time to be running back and forth between bike shops and test riding and doing diy stuff (i.e. do the frame justice).

What size is it?

As I've said before, I'm a big fan of this frame. I'll be back in the UK in Jan but may take a few weeks for us to get settled in a new place. If it's still knocking about by then, I'll be really interested but suspect you'll have a queue of people who want this.

Apologies for the stupidly late reply. I haven't been home in ages, but I'm back now and have measured it up.

I'll post the pics and measurements up here for those who expressed interest earlier (@alialias).

Measurements:

1. ST C-T = 57cm
   
2. ST C-C = 56cm
   
3. TT C-C = 56.5cm
   
4. HT = 15cm
   
   

Pics: https://photos.app.goo.gl/iNN74r3aNuyS9bRS2

Selling as seen (i.e. everything minus wheels). Would consider splitting if there's really no interest. All details of problems (headset adaptor and seatpost primarily) can be found here. Given that the group has seen very little use I was thinking somewhere ~£300-350 for the lot? Call me out if that's unreasonable.

• this will be hitting classifieds soon