Sexy Tecnos

Ok after riding about on a Tarmac SL4 for a while I decided to get a nice Italian Steel (the boss has a Master x Light gave me the idea). After getting a Colnago slx spiral conic that was advertised at the wrong size I layed out on a Tecnos, Dream hp Bstay and a masterolympic (as well as a colection of forks to play with)

The aforementioned Spiral conic

Out with the old and in with the new, the flash forks had just come back from a refurb and look better than ever. The Tecnos has now gone of to have some of the paint touched up.

The Master Olympic had a few rust bubbles so the paint has been taken back and hope to send that off for paint soon.

These are the forks after I got them back from paint and some time forks that I have.

Test fit on the bike with old style king headset, I love the number holder but it would be cool to get a race number for it.

Thats what the forks looked like before with messed up decals and chipped paint.

Don't repaint that Master!!!!

one for the master lovers, just wandered what it would look like with wheels on.

Nice tecnos , did you get it on the bay from Holand , I was after one but missed out
Look forward to the build

Yes I did, it came with time forks but i like the flash forks so popped a set of them in.

Nice frame . I nearly bought it but you beat me to it ;) , the master you have looks bigger .
Look forward to the finished pics & comparison to the Master

the master has extended lugs so it is a bit bigger but only 5mm longer.

Not planning on keeping it going to get paint sorted then will sell it.

this is her after picking her back up from Tim the paint man. If your in the Bristol area and you need paint he the man http://www.tjcdesign.com/

He has repainted the drop outs and chainstays as the ends of the black areas had been badly chipped and he kindly repainted logos on bb shell and drop outs.

and now the build so far.............

Needs pedals now !
Not sure I'd have set that ultegra stuff

speedplay ti are on Colnago 50th anniversary groupset, rare and works well. Would love Campy but budget will not go that far yet.

Ooh I do like that frame

going to try and find out what the paint code is

Stuff on bike

King headset Black
Specialized S Works stem
Specialized short shallow alloy bars (just for now)
Fizik Cyrano seatpost (alloy)
Fizik Curve saddle
Cinelli bar tape
Full Shimano Ultegra groupset (Colnago 50th anniversary)
H Plus Son rims, spain cx ray spokes on basic hubs.
Enve QR's
Speedplay Ti pedals

Is the Kurve comfy ? I'm hesitating buying one for my CX/travel bike

Only done 10 miles on it so far, feels allot like the standard one I have on my Tarmac but will no more soon (when I put some miles in)

Was that 50th gruppo that was on ebay for 500 notes?

Paint looks good.

Yep my 50th group didnt sell so decided to keep it for now.

very nice - whereabouts in brizzle is the paint guy based?

just of lodge causway

Paint looks awesome!

But if you want to avoid cable rub on the head tube, you should run the gear cables into the other stops and cross them over under the down tube.

You'd also have a more efficient and neater cable run for the brakes if you ran the front from the left lever.

And the inners have been finished too short: 40mm looks right IMO.

#cablepedant

to many of my other bikes dont run f brake continental so thats a bad idea, Personal opinion on the length of cable ends, but thank you for your ideas on that, yes the cable rub on top tube may prove to be an issue I have seen some cable holders on other bikes that stop this or I may just use rubber sleeves, O and the down tube does not allow cables to be crossed it having a big old bulged section in it.

I did see a cable guide that fits over the lower race of the headset: I think it was from Rose.

I run all mine continental now, better cable run and being able to brake safely while indicating right win it for me. I did stress about getting confused, but have never come a cropper (yet).

Ultegra cranks :-/