Yellow Pennine Frame

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Pennine frame (purchased May '13 from Skinny Erics Cycle Works and Ball Bearing Emporium of Hackney Wick), £160

56 x 55 cm ST / TT
Reynolds 531 Tubes / Forks / Stays
English BB
1" threaded headset
27.2 mm seat tube
120 mm rear spacing (adjusted?)
(hand re-painted with smooth braced crowns)

additionally purchased from the Cycle Works (including labour for the build) for £350,
headset, bottom bracket, crank bolts, drive-chain, rear-sprocket
brake levers and front/rear callipers (Shimano 600)
tyres (Continental Gatorskin) and inner tubes
3T 27.2mm seat-post,
cables (black), bar-tape

purchased elsewhere,
wheel-set, Campagnolo Omega Strada Harbox, £75 (FlashGordon)
chainset, Campagnolo Athena 53/42T 170mm Crankset, £50 (TheorySwine via jimjamosullivan)

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handlebars and stem, Cinelli 63 40 handlebar with XE black 90 mm stem, £65 (50+15p&p)
pedals, Time Atac Alium SPD, £50, Fitzrovia Bikes (to go with Vittoria 1976 Eroica Leather SPD Shoes)

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initial build

a single-speed with Shimano 600 brakes, and a Turbo saddle (June ’13),

total build cost £750

389 miles as a single-speed

including the Dunwich Dyanmo,

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subsequently,

switched Turbo saddle for a used Brooks B15 Swallow, £60 (lasmo999)

purchased Shimano Dura Ace 5-speed group-set (brake levers, front/rear callipers, crankset, chainring, gear levers, headset; but without a matching seat-post), £350

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geared conversion

completed (Sep'14), courtesy of Skinny Erics,

labour to assemble and set-up, £100

additional parts, £48
new headset (Shimano)
new bottom bracket (to match the Shimano crankset)
new drive-chain, and rear cassette (5-speed)

spare parts/components, sold / passed-on,
Shimano 600 brake levers and front/rear callipers -> @FrancisEagle £35
Shimano Dura Ace headset (as it doesn't fit the frame) -> Blue Steel (~£20)
Campagnolo Athena 170mm crankset, 42/53T chainset -> Blue Steel (£50)
to be sold / passed-on,
Turbo saddle (black)

total build cost: £750 (single-speed) + £498 (geared-conversion) + £60 (saddle) - £105 (components sold / passed-on) = £1,203

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after 2,034 logged miles with a (used) Brooks B15 Swallow, the saddle rails snapped just after a steep South Downs hill climb on The Shark audax route, Apr '17

+£75 new Brooks B17 saddle (Evans Cycles)

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Eroica-look, June '17

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quetions

? frame date - 1970s ref.

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future possibility

? black toe straps for the Miche pedals (for the Eroica-look!)
? build onto the Dura Ace hubs a matching wheel-set for about £150 (rims £60, spokes £35, labour £55)
? Brooks black bar tape
? Gumwall tyres - perhaps - Continetial Classic tyres?!

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