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Doing this on the Ridley made me realise that fixed isn't the best way to do cover distance.
I saw the Look for sale and bought it (thanks BigBen).
Right off, it's too small. But I'm not too fussed. It's a 58.5cm top tube - the same as the Ridely - so I sort of know I won't be too cramped.
The fork is a no-name threadless 1". BigBen was selling it with. I bought it at the time as it I thought "it's got lots of steerer". I'm glad I did as it helped make the threaded vs threadless decision.
Next call was the groupset. I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to anything geared. I wanted to keep it European, so decided Campag. I wanted Record.
First was the crankset. Originally I wanted square taper carbon, but having a matching set would have pushed the build cost too high. So alloy Record it was.
The forum served up a pair of mint 172.5 cranks (short for my height apparently, but what I run on both my other bikes) and matching brakeset. It had begun...
