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Love this - looks chill yet purposeful, got a nice stance.

This is well good 👍

Thanks! The new tyres make a fun rubbery squishy noise as well. Don't think they've done that on any other bike they've been on.

Thanks! I'm hoping the new version will be just as fun but with room for fatter tyres and my frame bag.

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How are you getting on with this? Also what do you think is the biggest tyre you could run with mud clearance? Cheers ta.

Like I said, it’s a little heavy for my use case but

the ride
I say, the ride is so smooth
It must be a Limousine

I like all the changes I made, so it probably would have made more sense to just get a frameset.

Ah, tires - it came with Maxxis 2.2, so definitely that, the Continentals I replaced them with are considered 2 inch. I can get some clearance pics tonight if you’re interested.

Pics would be cool at some point, I have one eye on a slightly battered one locally, I’m thinking winter farmshop bike.

Will do

So if I have my pics straight, back wheel vertical clearance is about 30mm, seatstay is 16mm, chainstay is 16mm. Front vertical is 21mm (limited by brake spring, about 28mm to crown. Front side is 16mm.

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Perfect! Thanks for that, looks ample room for some knobblies. I’ll see if I can go and have a look, if they still have it.

Cheers, post when you have it all together.

My minds been changing like the wind on whether to build this frame or not. It’s virtually NOS, it hung on a wall as some sort of art work from 2010 until very recently.

I think I want a nice silver/polished crankset, not sure about a silver stem though?
Black spokes on silver rims is killing me, I think it would be better rebuilt with silver.

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Absolutely should that be ridden. Looks great

It needs all black

Hah I literally just built a 2005 one, kind of want carbon wheels. Have you ridden yours much? Insanely slippy seatpost tolerances…

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Ha! I love it, silver crankset I feel is a must. Yours looks in pretty good nick too given their age now.

Mine actually started out as this 2006(I think?) 56cm frame that I bought on impulse for £100 on Facebook, the original plan was to build it up as a fun ratty winter bike with mudguards. But it had a load of issues, it had two tiny cracks at the seat collar cut out, the og fork was a potential death trap that was subject to a recall and the seat post was borderline too short since I’m 1.89m and should have been on a 58. A new longer seatpost was going to be £100 alone…
So I sacked it all off then found this 58 on eBay with none of the issues above.

Does your frame have the brass insert in the seat tube? I’m well read up on the seat post issues but I’m hoping this one should be good for a while at least…

Has the seat post been slipping on yours much?

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I have an R7000 groupset earmarked for this. I fitted the cranks in a mock up but felt silver would be better.

All black would work with black rims but the way anodising always wears off the brake track annoys me!

Meant to ask what size frame that is and what’s the seatpost? Is it one of the carbon ones off eBay?

kind of want carbon wheels

I actually bought a set of corima 47 wheels for this but couldn’t bring myself to go back to carbon rim brakes after a near death experience on a hill in the rain years ago.

I got the matching ultegra r8000 crankset on sale but kind of tempted to keep the big silver 6600!

Interesting, sounds like a remarkably similar situation to me, I also bought one of the same colourway ^^ which I never ending up collecting as I realised the listing had completed three or four times and it also had the undisclosed cracked seat tube. I knew that was a common problem but didn't find out about the death trap forks till afterwards, hence the Look forks - soon to be some straight Dedas though those 3T ones look best.

Managed a good deal on mine from a nice guy in his 60s who used it as a race day TT bike (not seen much use) said he bought it for nearly 2k second hand in 2007!! Its the anodised version so no paint as such and barely a mark on it.

Came with the very stiff reversible setback aluminium seat post and the brass shim but still slipped on the first ride - that leads everyone to overtorque, hence the cracking. Forked out on aftermarket seatpost, thinking the flex would maybe reduce the leverage on the potential crack area (also comfier) but the tolerance is even worse so have fitted a deodorant can shim going around the entire post with the join at the back; a slightly regrettable choice . Ive been using Fenwicks carbon paste but the substrate seems very sub-par compaired with the park-tool stuff I've used in the past. Hopefully can sort this out and get riding it properly.

*its a 56 and yeah ebay jobbie hylix seatpost
** was also after some 47 corimas haha

thinking the flex would maybe reduce the leverage on the potential crack area (also comfier) but the tolerance is even worse

Ah shit! This is my main worry, I’m a fairly big heavy rider but I’m hoping carbon paste and a torque wrench will keep it crack free…
I haven’t actually rode this 58 yet though. The seat post looks virtually brand new, the brass shim is there and it looks very clean and new. It’s actually really hard to move the seat post up and down so that sort of makes me hopeful.
I bought this 58 of an older guy who said he’d used it for 2 or 3 tt races. The previous owner apparently bought it in 2010 and then hung it on a wall as piece of art in some sort of man cave! I was dubious of the claims until I seen it, it really does look like it’s been rode twice.

I’m thinking about removing the anodising on my r7000 cranks and polishing them. But I’m not sure about dipping hollowtech cranks in caustic soda. I think this gen of hollowtech are two halves bonded together?

I hadn’t realised those black frames are anodised! It still looks really fresh.

I've probably told you before but it really is a great riding frame, and a bit of a modern classic IMO.

Yeah it’s actually ridiculous that I’ve still not rode one. I bought the 56cm last year…

A few folk have said they are pretty stiff and unforgiving but I’d be down with that.
I haven’t rode an alloy road bike for a good few years so it will at least be something different.

Lovely build