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I picked this up off the forum intending to use it for a fixed tour and then sell it on, fell in love with the way it rides and decided to keep it.
I was thinking this morning about all the different guises it's been through, and thought I'd like to put to together a little timeline....
Being bored at work on a Saturday morning can be tough.
This is how I first had it built.
Then it got spok'd
I think this was the moment love first blossomed...
Also crashed it the day after and put a tiny chip / ding in the top tube which I felt gutted about, was just glad I didn't right it off...
Was time to prepare for the tour, so fitted levers, a ti post and a new saddle...
Then luggage...
Got hammered the night before at a North Race alley cat, and had accumulated a few spoke cards...
But was en route to France, in one piece (apart from my collarbone which I found out after the tip was still broken when we set off) to embark on one of the best trips of my life...
Here we see the Condor out of it's natural habitat, chilling on the beach...
and in full loaded damaged saddle bag bungee'd together luggage state...
So had a wicked trip on it, upon returning to the UK though got distracted with other bikes and ended up leaving it un-used for a couple of months... Considered selling but couldn't bring myself to do it. Then I found deep carbon...
Which inspired me to get it built into the bike it deserved to be....
Was now back to loving it, the Campag/DuraAce combo was niggling me a bit though so final touch was a 7710 chainset...
Condor love had fully developed now, don't think I'll ever be selling this. Such a pleasure to ride, and I think it looks both classy and triple badass, not often attributes that go together....
All that's changed recently is got a new clamp for the seatpost as it kept slipping, and got some gloss black touch up paint which I've been touching up the scrapes with, just need some t-cut to polish them in.