Look what I just got in the post

nooo leave it in its scruffy, shirt out coolness

bollocks to that having never been used

^This

Just cleaned it up a bit, removed tape residue from packaging etc. Can't see any marks around the dropouts and the BB is clean. Seller seems legit too:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200770911579

A 60cm CrossCheck must be, what, 6 miles long?!

Cool though, nice find. Leave it in its current battered form.

60cm top tube. I'm 6ft4 so figure it'd be the size to try. Might put risers bars on though, partly as an excuse to use these levers:

Will SRAM X9 and X0 mtb shifters work with the SRAM Rival / Force / Red road mechs?

Will SRAM X9 and X0 mtb shifters work with the SRAM Rival / Force / Red road mechs?

The 10-speed ones will, the 9-speed ones won't

60cm top tube. I'm 6ft4 so figure it'd be the size to try.

The sizing seems to make a bit more sense as the frames get bigger. The top-tube on the 46 we have is 51cm with an effective of 53cm :s

Following on from my first fixed century this weekend, my first Brooks; Swallow, Honey, Chrome.

3t ?

No, 'th'.

it looks grotesque

3t ?

Yeah, ARX Team 'black edition'.

Yeah, ARX Team 'black edition'.

Nice!
Unfortunately I'm selling the Focus. But I'm getting a Sram red'ed up bike to replace it - eventual plan is 3T finishing kit.

How long to Planet-x take to send out a bike, usually?

not too long. they are generally pretty pronto with their biek stuff

You didn't need to buy it - just look at Tops in the changing room; do you look like that? No - and that's why he's faster than you.

Nice!
Unfortunately I'm selling the Focus. But I'm getting a Sram red'ed up bike to replace it - eventual plan is 3T finishing kit.

Did you get it built up? Or did the graphics have the same effect on you as they did on me? ;)

Recieved these last week, as part of my summer bargin hunting.

Friday I will be recieving....

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It is also the day I leave early for hols. Bugger.

You didn't need to buy it - just look at Tops in the changing room; do you look like that? No - and that's why he's faster than you.

He went under the hour in his first 25 so I can blame that on genetics.

http://www.aboc.com.au/Members/carl/carls-blog/archive/2012/06/29/it-takes-more-than-just-10-000-hours

So, when you factor in the 'genetically inferior from birth' handicap that I now use, I beat him and I beat everyone in the race, every race, all the time.

What's his best 12hr distance? What's his best 24hr distance? Oh, he hasn't raced them because he considers them insane.. well that's a bit sad.. it also makes me faster than him.

I hope to get under the hour on my first 25, which is why I haven't done any 25s yet...

You're fast enough to do it. I'm not sure why you've not tried.
10s are a shit distance anyway. 25s are where it begins to look like some kind of racing.

Balls just came back to delete that before anyone saw it.