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jBola
@ASTTer
Whilst busy posting my bike history and just how I got to this point over here , it became apparent that I currently have two bikes that do pretty much the same job. They're both comfortable but racy mile munchers with modern hydro and electric groupsets. One of them needs to go, and this will free up space and budget for something that has been niggling at me for a while. Like the middle aged chap who just has to buy the sports car he lusted over as a boy, I want to build up one of the bikes I lusted over when I was rolling around on my £500 Halfords special.
As such I paid a visit to a guy in Gloucestershire yesterday and came back with a 56cm Time RXR Ulteam frameset, of around 2011 vintage. It's in really stunning condition, having given it a good clean this morning there is hardly a mark on it other than where some of the decals/clearcoat have come away on the bars - I'll run the tape long enough to cover these.
The weight of the module including the seat post cluster (not pictured) is 2,200g, so although I wasn't originaly planning a particularly weeny build I think somewhere near 6kg will be achievable with a couple of tweaks.
This one's going to be a slow burner, I'm planning on learning how to build the wheelset to go on this for starters, but I will post updates as things move along.
For now, pictures: