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Very nice - alsways like a green bike.
i'm intrigued as to how you smuggled it back (don't worry i don't work for HMRC)
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Bikes are not really high on customs radar, you can always say you took it out with you, for a riding holiday. Dismantled bike for transport in luggage is the norm to protect it.
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Haha. I really just meant I bought it in a shop while over there and had it in the car when I drove back. Customs at Calais were more interested in whether I'd stopped at Citi Europe and had any stowaways aboard.
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Bought a Stigmata frameset from a shop in Girona back in Oct (and smuggled it back into the uk) with the idea of building an "all road" bike with two wheelsets. It will be a winter road bike in the winter (with guards) and then a fast gravel and road bike in the summer. The Rival AXS groupset gearing seemed perfect for this. 30-46 up front and 10-36 out back. Plus I wanted to try AXS.
Was busy back end of 2021 so finally got round to building it up last week. Rival AXS groupset, Farsports Feder 45 on DT240 EXPs, GravelKing slicks 32c, Thomson masterpiece seatpost, weird Profile Design DRV/GMR gravel bars.