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£850. Let's start the ball rolling...
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Yes granted, but I'm not letting it go for that, as thats a huge kick in the balls frankly titanium or otherwise. Price is negotiable. I've said it's open to offers which it is. The only minus of selling here is that in order to not sink without trace you have to keep discounting, due to the no bumping policy , so I'm hardly going to start on 550 and end up selling it Argos price. It's worth somewhere inbetween the two figures even though it cost me much more and I felt I'd got a bargain, given what siena's shift for. If you read the first bit I stated what it owes me and that I'm open to offers. I need to raise some money, I'm not some horrible bastard. The price will drop until someone decides they want it, or pm's me with something acceptable but I do have limits.
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£800 but see listing... make me an offer. I need my lounge back.
Offers via PM rather than on the thread.
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Reason it’s not selling is due to the massive dent....
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Gee thanks. It's not massive... the downtubes fugging enormous. To think my laptop went flat when I was going to say what a great colour your Rock Lobster was, well that was a message from the Gods...
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. another angle...
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£750...
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The other angle looks a lot less than massive I agree.
I wouldn’t lose any sleep if anyone hates the rock lobster tbh though. Have a ding bump -
Two schools of thought here... I bought it with the dent, felt I'd got a good deal ha. So theory 1. a dropped D lock. theory 2. probably more likely, a failed nick attempt although oddly the underneath is unaffected, so dunno. It was bought from a London bike shop. The frame number checked out fine enough.
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Cheers for the bumpette. I like the lobster, I always wanted one of those when they came out but could never run to it as a student.
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£700 to clear… jinkies. Even I might buy it, ooh wait a minute… lol.
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I don’t know in all honesty, googling titanium frame fail and it's always at the welds. eBay sucked I thought I’d come here and take a drubbing on price but hopefully with some like minded souls, its a lovely bike end of, the ding was of no consequence when I bought the thing (read on), and if I had the room and the finances, frankly I’d keep it as it handles so well, and hadn't considered a career in dirt jumping on it lol. Still for sale though. As I need the room. The underneath of the tube is a V shaped spine, the tube itself is a graduated box section like a radiused parallelogram and about 50mm wide at that point, and 40mm deep. from my limited knowledge of physics, apart from being inherently strong the stress on that tube would be dissipated to the spines on the sides rather than the top.
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I was thinking I might just keep the thing and sell the ultimate in jewellery from the build thread my Perks, and the GRUN. I need the room in all honesty, I also have to offset some bills sadly, but need to whittle the bikes down to 2, 3 at a real absolute push. If the Grun and the Perks sell, I might even be daring enough to put the Litespeed on the bay at 99p and see what happens...
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Thanks anyway. You see that wouldn't phase me, given one the design of the tube and the fact it's titanium gave me certainly enough confidence. If a frame guy wants to chime in via pm thatd be cool but in all honesty I need a sale for a number of reasons, mainly a switch to the steel of a Ron Cooper and figured the Litespeed would offset that. Did I switch to the Ron Cooper because I didnt like the Litespeed? Hell no. Just did some reading up on the approach of Ron and wanted an example of his work. I'd rather someone have the faith I did and accept they are getting a bargain in a frame made from a material with a very low fatigue life and structurally sound and radical engineering principles, dent or not. I need the space... Final punt, then ebay harakiri£650 ouchies.
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Litespeed Siena 51.5, small anyway.
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No splits or I end up with a lounge full of parts, rendering me even less attractive to the opposite sex if that's possible at the moment. In Manchester but read on...
FS LITESPEED Siena titanium with Chris King Headset and ENVE fork
Classed as a small, compact geometry, I have a 30" inside leg and it fits me great. Note with the new turbo saddle its a little lower. Its a compact sloped geometry so looks different to most road bikes.
Litespeed Siena titanium (not the marmite carbon seatstay version) without the nasty transfers some Litespeeds have.
The custom tube profiles are cool, seat stays being a case in point. Chris King red standard fit headset (not the internally flanged headtube version!, gah.), unsure of vintage but shimano sora 18 speed. Saddle is a Brand new Selle Italia Turbo in black (not as shown). Rides absolutely beautifully, goes like stink and is very flickable. Never been hammered or raced whilst in my ownership.
Ding under bottle cage area, but the downtube is massively oversized and not as bad as it looks plus covered up by a beautiful Deda carbon cage. Couple of bits missing on the main transfers but nothing to detract. This has the ENVE Road 2.0 Carbon fork option. Wheels are Bontrager tubeless and tyres are a new pair of Schwalbe Pro Ones, and a Deda Carbon cage. Pedals not included.
I have a bike box so will post if required. Would prefer collection. £900. is what it owes me which at the time I was quite chuffed with given most sienas seem to shift north of 1200 used, but feel free to offer me troll pencil tops and old conkers via pm. I'll listen as I need my lounge back. Really nice thing quite minimal.
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