Serotta CSI

are you letting on at all about paint?

It all seems to be moving pretty quickly! Are you going for a Chris King HS?

According to Matt the 7700 headset is fine- surprisingly so, given the state of the steerer.

wow - this is actually happening. Careful now, you might end up with a fully built bike project :)

It's possible that this will happen faster than the Oak- I was trying to get an estimate on the paint being complete from Ryan earlier today and he wasn't able to provide one.

/grumpy

Hey, I paid for the brakes on the Oak after work today, it's officially got everything needed to make a fully functional bike, unlike the Serotta, which needs bars and a groupset.

#doingitright

#sickburn

Ribble are cheapest for a full 6800 groupset, but only have 50/34 rings.

That won't do.

The standardisation of the 50/34 chainring combo irritates me. Too many fat mamils buying bikes.

What are you after?

53/39

Or, at a pinch, 52/36, but I'd prefer 53/39.

According to Matt my frame just killed his Dremel.

Once the costs are aded up will this be cheaper than a from new Serotta? ;)

Heh, dunno- it's been pretty cheap (for the frame) so far, but as ever it'll be a lot of small figures adding up to one large one.

Actually, lets have a look at it:

I paid £160 for a frame that couldn't really be used, £132 for the replacement tube and decals, paint will be ~£120 so that's £412 before I've paid Matt for replacing the tube, cutting the stem out and so forth.

So, lets estimate £550-£600 when it's done, which should be essentially an "as new" frame, with a braze on for a front mech which it currently lacks, and painted in a colour which I've chosen.

Issue is of course that this is steel, a material which Serotta no longer work with for new purchases, having a quick look at their site shows that a Titanium frame plus carbon fork would run to about $4,000, but as said that's not really a fair comparison.

What price would a NOS Serotta CSi frame go for would, I suppose, be a more apposite question?

Heh, dunno- it's been pretty cheap (for the frame) so far, but as ever it'll be a lot of small figures adding up to one large one.

Actually, lets have a look at it:

I paid £160 for a frame that couldn't really be used, £132 for the replacement tube and decals, paint will be ~£120 so that's £412 before I've paid Matt for replacing the tube, cutting the stem out and so forth.

So, lets estimate £550-£600 when it's done, which should be essentially an "as new" frame, with a braze on for a front mech which it currently lacks, and painted in a colour which I've chosen.

Issue is of course that this is steel, a material which Serotta no longer work with for new purchases, having a quick look at their site shows that a Titanium frame plus carbon fork would run to about $4,000, but as said that's not really a fair comparison.

What price would a NOS Serotta CSi frame go for would, I suppose, be a more apposite question?

Impossible to say since as you point out. YOU get to choose the paint which to me would be a big deal if i were to buy a frame. Theres been a NOS csi on ebay for some time. Believe the bin is 1000 usd.

500-600 does seem pretty good imo under these circumstances. At least not crazy expensive.

Actually not that bad. I thought it would add up to more.

I may have spoken too soon- message from Matt saying that the seat-cluster lug just split as he was removing the seat tube.

So, he's going to replace that as well, "using a blank sheaf and the intact remains of the top tube part of the original lug".

Those seattubes are really beautiful. Was suprised how fat they are at the bb junction.

integrated seatpost serotta?

^sounds like a plan!

Would be fun, but outside the scope of a restoration- goal here is for the frame to be as close to New/Old Stock as possible when done.