£50, 57cm BTwin Triban 500SE frame, forks + other bits, in Edinburgh. Turn it into a commuter or pub bike or something.

Have switched to a disk brake tourer so this is up for sale.

I really have no idea what this is worth so let's call it £50 for now. I will be happy to drop that but am sort of expecting that it won't sell on here and I'll have to face the horrors of eBay/Facebook.

(excuse the paint on my wall there)

It is located in Edinburgh (where I live...) but there are a few people up in Scotland on here so maybe one of them is interested. I don't think it's going to be economical to post such a cheap frame but I can look into it if anyone's interested.

Bought brand new by me in June 2015. Has been used as my commuter, generic road bike, rode it on a 100-mile sportive, even did some light touring on it and it held up great. I probably only did about 10,000 km on it as my commute is only a few km each way and I'm not much of an athlete, but the use is starting to show; chips in the paint abound, and there are plenty of scratches and other such things. But it's a beefy frame so structurally everything is perfectly fine.

• size 57cm. I never found a geometry chart for this bike but it's very similar to the attached geometry for the Triban 500 (not SE).
  
• carbon fork blades + alloy steerer - never cut this down so still got a big spacer stack. 1 1/8" to 1 1/2" tapered steerer.
  
• mounts for full mudguards
  
• it has rear rack mounts. I thought one of them was stripped but I just tried a bolt in both of them and it went in fine. It's possible that if you want to take 20kg on a rear rack you'll need a riv-nut sort of thing though.
  
• clears a 700c x 25mm (on 17mm internal rims) with mudguards. Never tried anything wider but suspect it might be a real squeeze.
  
• seatpost is weird size - 29.8mm - so the seat clamp and post are included. 1-bolt thing that I never had any problems with
  
• headset included - seems fine to me, but I don't think I've never worn a headset out
  
• you can have the spacers and top-cap if you want them
  
• BB threads are perfectly fine
  
  

Weights of everything are as follows:

• seat post: 334g
  
• fork: 535g
  
• frame, headset, seat clamp: 2037g
  
  

No lightweight for a proper road bike but I had it built up with 2x10 SRAM Rival/Apex and Fulcrum Racing 5s and I think it was somewhere in the 8-9kg range, which is respectable and certainly good enough for commuting and the sort of riding I do:

Reviews are raving:

• http://www.cyclingweekly.com/reviews/road-bikes/btwin-triban-500se
  
• http://road.cc/content/review/116333-btwin-triban-500-se-road-bike - road.cc actually voted it the UK's Best Budget & Best Commuting Bike apparently.
  
  

A hopefully-very-comprehensive album of pictures here - https://imgur.com/a/yOfjM - if you want a specific picture of something on the bike let me know.

I also have most of the original parts off this bike so if you're after the matching stem, bars, etc. I can add those on for a small amount of cash. And I also have a set of very long SKS Raceblades that are too narrow for my new tyres so they can also be sold with it.

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Is the price sensible? Let me know what you think even if you've no interest in buying it.

Price is fine. For just £50 you get a frame and a carbon fork. I would have snatched this if it were my size.