SOLD! Mikenetic's charity sale item four: 54cm winter road bike

I built this as an eventual replacement for the very first frame I made, which got nicked from outside the workshop I was using. You can take the bike, but you can't take the skills.

Although I say winter bike, it's really a bike for when the roads are a bit wet, or unpredictable. It's a Columbus Zona tubeset with a Columbus Hiver winter fork. It's the same geo as my Rourke, I just lengthened the chainstays to allow for mudguards, plus I made the appropriate head tube adjustment to allow a longer winter fork blade length.

Full spec is:

Fillet brazed Columbus Zona with Columbus Hiver fork, Hope headset
SKS chromo plastic mudguards. RAW spray flaps to keep your friends/wheelsuckers happy
Ritchey WCS alloy bars, handles, stem
Ultegra 6800 mechanical groupset, 172.5mm cranks, 52-36 chainset, 11-28t cassette.
Ultegra composite pedals
Mavic Ksyrium Elite S wheels, Conti GP4000II 25mm tyres (not an obvious winter choice, but they were in a box and I like them)
TRP long drop calipers
Fabric Scoop shallow saddle
Arundel carbon fibre bottle cages

Loads of great memories riding this one. On the 2015 Dun Run pretty much rode the first half with a tandem piloted by two people from London Bike Kitchen. They couldn't get into the small ring and had no GPS/wayfinding, so I did directions and hills, and they motor paced me on the flat :)

£600 collection from North London N4. All sale proceeds going to charity. If you don't know the background to the sale, it's here https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/3618­97

This seems like a bargain

Yup

And it looks like it's already gone :)

Not very charitable asking these prices :)

Hopeful Pm sent

It's been nice to hear people saying that if they got one of the bikes they'd top up or make donations to other charities and other ideas. It's good for the soul :)

To avoid confusion my point was these are very keenly priced.

Yeah! Not very charitable of me to put so much temptation in front of people :)

Dibs for a friend and pm'ed!!

This one has now found a new home with @lowbrows. Cheers Henry, and I hope you have a lot of fun riding it.

Mike

Congrats @lowbrows! If you ever find yourself selling this in the future I’d be very very interested! 🤞🏻

Offered up for the same price as before- all proceeds to CRISIS.
I've ridden it pretty much everyday since picking it up from @Mikenetic- but space is becoming a premium and I have a less fancy bike that I'll be using to commute from now on.
Only thing I've done to it is add a tiny lick of paint from a wall it was parked up against when someone decided to move it, no damage and I'm sure it would come off with a bit of scrubbing.

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That looks like it'd come off with finish restorer and a polish. I'd be happy to check it out if you want!

ooo if its back on the market then dibs @lowbrows!

I'll let the buyer sort that one out. Wish I could keep it- but I have actually completely run out of space now...

2nd dibs

3rd dibs!

Riding it again today has made me want to keep it, apologies all, it’s too perfect for me to let go of.

completly get it bud, its a great bike!. enjoy the rides :)