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Size 59cm TT - Shimano 600 cranks - Shimano 600 derailleur - Shimano 600 brakes - Hubs Shimano 600 (front). Exage Shimano rear - front wheel has mavic rim, back wheel is a Bitza but shite condition - has 2 busted spokes but like the the Man from Snowy River's pony, it feels no pain and even with 95 kg of half angry Eddy Merckz and half handsome Tom Boonen on board, she can still round up the Turramurra Cyclist Peleton sports mob and bring them home ...crying for their mumma, a weak decaf latte and a fresh razor to trim their leg hairs. the frame has some rust around the bottom bracket (everywhere in fact but she still rides like a demon. I don't mean to skite but but around Akuna Bay on the weekend we (but we i mean she and I) left the Turramurra Bike shop peleton in our wake up the hill. I reckon conservatively there was about $250K worth of pushie in that pack of riders and they had the shame to shave their legs and call themselves cyclists. As it happens I wasn't even pedalling, the bike just went up the hill and smashed the concave chested, heart monitor wearing nancy boys like a guitar. If you've seen the Herbie movies where Herbie has a life of his own and smashes some Michael Schumacher wannabe without everyone driving him you'll know what I mean. Then, on the descent, I jumped onto the Duckholes and Centre tracks mountain biking tracks and left some Sam Hill wannabes on 6 inch duallies scratching their heads as i manualled down the off road track, bunny hopped a kangaroo that came out of no-where and then opened a fizzy can of whup-ass over a 40 foot gap jump. as a result, the front wheel which is a Mavic Rim with a Continental tubular tyre got a flat (this is also why my other ebay add was pulled. if fact, so while this bike for auction doesn't have all of the parts, enterprising young kiddies looking to make a motza could probably find the bits missing like the handlebars up the khyber pass of the last carbon riding spanker who tried to ride up beside me yelling "Rider"as if 1. i wasn't aware that he was riding a bike 2. he thought i would get off the road completely as if he was a roadtrain and I was in a mini moke and we were crossing the Nullabor and 3. he didn't realise that this bike is like the Bond car or the horse in the kiddies show Black Beauty or National Velvet because when i lean forward and whisper sweet nothings in her ear she responds like a thoroughbred and kicks into overdrive and jet blasters come out of her semi-horizontal dropouts (great for single speed conversion by the way). So, to make this a fair auction and allow the underprivileged kids of all the cities of the worlds to have a bid, I'm starting it off at $10. Note that the winning bidder will be required to sign a declaimer at point of purchase confirming that 1. they don't wear a heart rate monitor , 2. they don't get off the bike to walk up a gutter because they are afraid of cracking their precious rims and 3. they dont have a compact chain ring on the front so they can stay seated while the rest of us are busting our arses to get up a climb. THis is because the bike and i have a reputation to uphold and even if the bid gets to to $1500, we would prefer to be seen as foolish instead of weak minded. A few other things to note. 1. Made in France - like Baguettes, and gauloises, the FRogs do make nice pushies. Unfortunately they don'ty have anyone left who can ride one well but they do make nice pushies 2. this bike was de3signed by CAD. I know so, because it has a sticker on it telling me. NASA and the US army will tell you that they started the first computers. THat is all bollocks. It was Rene and Pierre and Jean drinking Pastis one night at the Peugeot factory who thought that if they could just get a little "je ne'sais quoi""happening they could build a nice frame. Hey presto, one nice pushie later and as a bonus ...the computer was born. 3.Beasuty is in the eye ofd the beholder. Many people think wrinkles may be unattractive but i bet that the old batchelor living in the retirement village doesn't mind a wrinkle or two if it comes with a little sideways samba after bingo. And so it is with this bike. she has rust throughout, the wheels are kinked and are missing spokes, but she will rise up and unleash hell at your command on the road when she needs to. Inspections and pick-up are from Forestvill
Godspeed to all