MGOOF : Modern groupset on old frame

Lovely, well done 🙌

What a deal! I’ve paid over £400 for a 7800 in the last 12 months, good find 🙏

Looks banging by the way!!

FUCK. OFF!

Judging from the background, that's $200 AUD, about £14 last I checked. And fair enough, you're in the sticks, which hammers asking prices, but still, that's crazy. Dude would've paid most of that for the tyres.

Look at this bike! RD and crankset look fucking mint. Get those levers working and that group would be worth at least $750. Then there's the deep carbon wheels, which you would be pretty damn stoked to land alone for $200.

And the frameset! Giant's, and my, first carbon! I had the CFR1 back in the day, which was incredibly light given the ally lugs (I seem to remember 900g, but the ally fork with steel steerer was like 2/3 of that again... Is that a 55? Mine was a 57.) The full carbon frame was a bit of a noodle though... The CFR3 here has ally seat tube and stays, doesn't it? Might be better. The other cool thing about these frames was the see-through paint, and yours seems to have fared as well as that pristine groupset.

I guess it could have been used a fair bit without becoming scuffed and scratched; the giveaway would be chainring wear and particularly wear on the nickel-plated ally FD cage.

It is a bit of a puzzle... The CFR3 would've come out with 5400 on it, so someone has built this up at considerable expense... I hope there was a compelling story to convince you it wasn't stolen.

Mine was.