For Sale: 2008 Shimano 105 Double Groupset

Hi all

I recently bought a second hand bike, with a view to make it into my new fixed gear bike, using parts from my old langster.

It's currently got a Shimano 105 Double Groupset from 2008 on it, and I don't have all of the tools to remove everything myself, so the groupset is for sale provided you can remove the bottom bracket and all the tricky bits yourself.

A few scuffs here and there, but overall, pretty decent nick for its age.

39/53 on the front, front and rear brakes (both 105s), all the cables etc, although the cable for the front derailleur is a little frayed, 10 speed Shimano 105 STIs levers, bottom bracket

If anyone is interested I will post pics later on

£120 - I live in SW20

fair play, seems like a good price to me!

I'd have that but you are miles and miles away!!! Bargain for a little work.

Dibs. Pending piccies. Will pm ya now...

2nd dibs

Let me know if howard pulls out

3rd dibs!

SOLD

Thanks for your interest guys - the groupset has now been sold

Cheers, polished it all up now and it's looking a lot better :)

Funny thing happened on the way home. I decided to follow the route suggested by my Garmin and that took me through a lazy winding route through Wimbledon then Wandsworth. At one point I missed the route, and had to wait ages whilst my Garmin recalculated (I ate the biscuit - thanks!). I got going again, and when I went over Wandsworth bridge I saw a chap with a team banana Raleigh on the pavement obviously having difficulties.

I stopped and asked him if he was OK, and he said there was something wrong with his rear wheel. I pulled my bike off the road and went to have a look, and it turned out that on crossing the bridge his chain had bounced off (Fixed! Insufficient tension after repairing a puncture) and got wedged between the crank arm and bottom bracket shell.

No amount of pulling or wiggling would release it. I looked at his cranks and saw they were secured by bolts, and I thought, 'damn, if they were allen bolts we'd be able to get the crank off to free the chain as I've got a crank puller in my bag'. I explained I didn't have the tools to fix it.

Then I remembered the crank puller had an attachment on the opposite side that I hadn't used before. To the chaps amazement I pulled the crank puller out the 'tool bag' I was carrying and undid his crank bolt with the opposite end of the puller, then released the crank with the puller enough so that the chain dropped out. I tightened his crank back on, sorted out his rear wheel, and off he went, very grateful, with advice that he should call in to his LBS to get the crank properly tightened.

So I did get to use my square taper crank puller after all :)

But talk about luck on his part - bumping in to probably one of the five or so cyclists in London cycling round with a crank puller, who, had he not followed his Garmin or managed to lose his Garmin route would never have come across him at all.

Cool story, Bro

Hope you make some progress with the Condor conversion :)

H

That is an epic story!

Good to hear you got back ok, and the biscuit came in handy!

I polished up the Condor, and it came out really well! Those baby wipes really shifted the dirt.

I've put a few coats of varnish on the scuffs on the carbon, and now don't have the heart to sell it! I'll keep the langster as fixed, and will convert the Condor to SS, complete with chain tensioner

Cool :) send me a pic when it's done!