MGOOF : Modern groupset on old frame

Yeah I’m in Spain and had to pay 26€ on a £30 package! €7 tax and the rest handling fees, don’t think I’ll be getting anything from uk anytime soon.
Not sure if it’s the same for the rest of Europe.....

From IG:

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Nice lightweight (I want 'weight' crossed out but can't be bothered to find out how)

Edit: someone else did actually bother to tell me, ta

Thanks. Been looking for one in my size for an age. So no group or build planned just yet. Certain it will be modern. I will sell on the panto chainring and levers.

I’d be interested in the chainring 👍🏻

Sure. When it all arrives I will drop you a PM with some pictures etc.

With tankers full of bike parts stranded in the Suez canal, and a year of Covid seeing bike prices skyrocket with bikes and parts in short supply, it seems inevitable that 2021 will see all our bikes slowly become more anti, as people scrabble for any bits they can just to keep on the road.

By the end of the year I predict the only rims available will be multi-coloured Deep V's and the only remaining tyres will be 20-23mm in red, green, yellow and blue. With the forum approaching its 15th birthday (?) I find it a wonderful quirk of fate that our bikes could all end up looking like they did back then :) It will be like the next Mad Max film when petrol has finally run out and the worlds population abandons cars and the only means of transportation is to cobble together Frankenbikes.

I have decided not to fight the inevitable, and have a multi-coloured bike that has seen me dabble with anti in the past, with various coloured saddles and bar tape, so that seemed ripe to be first up for 'the change'. I'm a jump straight in the pool not get in slowly kind of guy, so I've gone all in straight off the bat, full Timmy Mallett, not flirting with anti, more ramraiding the front door of Anti HQ and declaring we have arrived.

It may cause your eyes to bleed but it makes me laugh before I've even climbed aboard, and despite the challenging colours, the SLX frame with a Max fork, 20 speed Campagnolo drivetrain with 25mm tyres, it's a great riding bike, and there can be no excuse for any SMIDSY's. Laugh all you like, this is our future.

Nearly perfect but it needs this

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/kids-bike-horn/_/R-p-15709

Very tempted, but think I prefer a chromed one.

Funky fresh! Makes me remenisce of my ganja days. Needs some new and colourful cages though. And what headset is that?

Actually chrome would be better, the one linked is 22mm bars max aswell.

Jokes aside, I quite like what you've done.

Haha. Headset is just a low stack Tange one as the fork steerer wasn't long enough for a Record one. The frame originally came with a horrible alu fork with pretend carbon look, but I found that red Max fork on eBay and thought it the perfect match.

Don't know about the cages but I have been pestering Brixton Cycles to make black bottles with their red, gold and green colours instead of the white and red Red Stripe type ones they currently have.

Nice, I'll remember that headset for when I need a low stack one. It looks like an old campy pista. Great job on the fork. The fork/saddle/pedal combo is Gastonesque, very cool.

Only time I’ve ever seen coloured tyres and thought they looked good. Bar tape is absolutely 10/10.

Give yourself a gold star.

Thanks, the red tyres are deliberately challenging, and they were on sale, but I've played around with so many colours with this bike, it just encourages it. In other configurations in the past its had classic green walled Open Pave's, Yellow accented tyres on yellow Shamals, blue tyres on black Shamals and just plain gumwalls on normal rims. And I've got a few saddle options for playing around.

And a couple of jerseys for the full clown get up.


It's not like a show dog being dressed up every week, its actually had a hard life. I think I've done over 15,000 miles on it since I bought the frame and built it up in 2015, I've been doored by uninsured taxi drivers on it, left hooked by a van on the Aldwych, and its just back on the road after having a bent rear derailleur hanger, from an actual nodder on first day with clippy pedals falling into me while I was completely stationary waiting to join traffic at a T-junction. But like Steve Austin we can rebuild him, and it keeps on rolling. Considering I got the frame for £93 its's been one my best value cycling buys ever.

That green flite and Giro jersey 👌

Yeah agreed, green flite is sick.

I really like that. Reminds me of the harlequin vw polos from years back

Solid effort man. Bright colours liven up the world! Defo the giro Jersey.

Love it

Nearly there jus lt need these to finish off properly

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Ha yes that would be good, but I expect spendy.

And those hood names, Jesus, I'm going to have introduce that first one into daily use:

'that coffee's worked its magic, I've just off to coil out some Bordeaux Gold' and 'nice Bordeaux Gold slacks you got there grandad'

Finally shes here, first vintage frame since 2014. I know it will be better looking with Campag Record/Super Record 11/12 speed, but gonna settle with this 105 right now. Campag parts are expensive and hard to find in here, so this set-up is sufficient for Phase 1 build.

This EM CE Max is replacing my caad12, hope it will ride better than the aluminati.

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That Merckx looks superb

That Merckx is satisfyingly beefy.