New Gruppo on older bikes

Utter horseshit unless you are lacing these mythical wheels with spider's webs instead of actual spokes.

You're right, my apologise, I forget to add the tyres (Deda RS Corsa) and inner tube;

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pwnd

man speaks sense.
they stopped making bikes out of steel for a reason....

Its because steel is very heavy which therefore means the bicycle goes much slower.

You two Einsteins are cousins of Tesla or something? What minds, what minds!!!

pwnd

Naively I thought the use of the words "hubs" and "rims" in the plural referred to a pair of wheels. Not a single rear wheel. FFS.

;)

#ubinscobled

Think outside the box, you silly cucumber.

put new stuff on old bike and ride it....

Met a guy last night (I think he's on here as dangermouse?) who had the most incredible Moser frame, built with 11spd Super Record, fizik saddle, dt 585 rims etc etc and it looked AMAZING. Bet it rode beautifully too.

Good to meet you the other night too Dan. In agreement with you. New on old, to some degree. I love my bike and yes it rides lovely — a NOS '96 Leader, fillet brazed Oria tubing. Old stem, rest of it is new.

^phwoar, lucky man

^^ that's like a nicer version of my old bike

Needs sticker-free wheels, different coloured headset, silver seatpost, different tyres and different groupset oh and pink, nuh uh! ;)

don't listen to him - he's from Australia.

Have to agree on the coloured headset though :)

Naively I thought the use of the words "hubs" and "rims" in the plural referred to a pair of wheels. Not a single rear wheel. FFS.

;)

I had to self harm, then wash my hands 50 times when I realised that that was the weight for only one wheel.

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Bikes are gay is my new favourite username troll thingy. Although there's been some ace trolls over the years, that one takes some beating. Poobum was good though. Bring back poobum.

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@dan I know. Not the easiest to track down though. It was the last one on CRC, was cheap and steers. #CK

You could track down at least a Chorus seatpost.

Or get a black Moser panto quill stem to match ;-)

i can't decide to be honest but i'm going to build up my 1979 mkm with mostly modern parts however i will keeping the quill stem, ahead on skinny steel rarely looks good and would rather keep original forks

we shall see.

A friend of mine has this Motobécane. He was wondering if it would be possible to upgrade the gruppo. I believe it can be done, although I really am not sure what to do with the rear wheel. Not sure how wide a cassette would fit.

PS. Pretty steep angles, on that frame.

For me, I ride with DT shifters because I like the 7 speed setup my bike came with. Yes there are 7 speed STIs out there but most of them are low to mid range and old now so could be getting unreliable. I could change to 8speed and have a wider range of STIs but then I'd have to change wheel or at least freehub body and re-dish my wheel, I'd also have to re-set my frame to 130mm which I don't really want to do. So I use DT shifters because I use 7speed and I don't find them enough of a pita to change. I don't race, I don't ride in bunches much. If I did I might want STIs enough to change to 8, 9 or 10 speed.

Gotcha.

Thanks, vandal!

Naively I thought the use of the words "hubs" and "rims" in the plural referred to a pair of wheels. Not a single rear wheel. FFS.

;)

that's what i thought. those wheels are very heavy if it's just a rear.

Seriously heavy wheels there ed, 42 spoke with concrete inner tubes?

it's just a normal wheel with mavic open pro, ambrosio hubs, 10 speed centaur cassette, normal inner tube and deda rs corsa tyres.

cassette - 250g.
tyre - 200g.
inner tube - 70g.

which mean the rims, spoke, hubs and skewer are under 1000g.

Ignore them, Ed. They want you to end up asking loads of question about the weight of carbon parts from China in the AQA thread. We all know it's the quickest route to the abyss of kitchen appliances and plumbing related queries.

pwnd

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Naively I thought the use of the words "hubs" and "rims" in the plural referred to a pair of wheels. Not a single rear wheel. FFS.

;)

this, too.

I've got an old frame from the 90s that I'm adding a modern groupset/parts to, which, has led to WW consideration on most parts...

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