LOOK - Look at them!

If that was a 53 or 54 I'd have already parted with the cash. It's a steal.

^would be a nice winter bike/summer bike pairing.

Someone's outdoing 6.pt's 808s

Nah, they've put the wrong groupset on it.

Those wheels match that frame perfectly, some would say they look made for each other.

If I had such a frame, I'd be very keen to put some of those wheels on it.

Someone's outdoing 6.pt's 808s

that's an oooold one from bikeforums.net - was the one that got me started on my whole 595 lust. he used to have fulcrums on it, but they were far too red. there's also the classic white 595 with boras in someones living room shot somewhere I shall dig out.

I clearly need to find a white garage door to photograph my bicycle in front of.

that's an oooold one from bikeforums.net - was the one that got me started on my whole 595 lust. he used to have fulcrums on it, but they were far too red. there's also the classic white 595 with boras in someones living room shot somewhere I shall dig out.

All stolen from Weightweenies, have seen the picture you're talking about.

Dammit. You're a bastard.

I rode my new 595 to Rotterdam last weekend. It was bliss... until it broke me. Serves me right for riding it 250 miles before setting up the saddle and bars properly. Am now booked in for a bikefit with the whisperer.

Will post pics of it once I clean all the crap off it and stick on a new tub. A 45 pound puncture no less. Le sigh

I'm not looking forward to that part of things. Did you use Pitstop, or change it by the road?

It was all quite exciting actually, it was my first tub puncture. I forgot to pack pitstop so I ripped off the old one, slapped on a bit of glue on the new ones with a paintbrush that i handily had on me and mounted it as usual. Did it all rather hastely so it wasn't centred properly, but it didnt take much longer than a regular tube swap would have and it seemed to ride fine.

I know you can preglue them but i couldnt be bothered and gambled with the knowledge that I hadn't punctured for the preceeding 5000+ miles I had covered over the last year.

To be honest I feel you can ride tubs without any glue if you pump them up hard and corner slowly. But that's just my personal opinion. Having said that, I didn't like knowing they werent 100%, so have decided to give tufo tape a go. It was also mightly silly of me to ride to Rotterdam on tubs in the first place. Am on the hunt for a semi decent clincher wheelset for that purpose.

I settled on shimano rs80 c50s for £520 from px. weigh a tonne, but bombproof and carbon isn't a fairing like on px own-brand offerings..

I had to strip off my Vittoria Evo's which Ciaran had glued- that was nothing at all like "I ripped off the old one", it was more like "after half an hour of swearing, I finally got the fucking thing off".

Haha, oh dont get me wrong, my fingers were hurting like a bitch trying to get the damn thing off. Although I do have immense forearms.

On a side note, I've spent the last few days picking off the old glue. My god, its a nightmare.

I've pre-glued a spare tub, which I hope to god in his infinite mercy to never have to use. I carry that and a can of Pitstop, we'll see if that works when the inevitable happens.

If my girlfriend could drive I'd probably just call her and ask for a lift.

Good idea, much nicer to do in the comfort of your home, and you can take your time with it and get it centred properly.

This is asking for the Rod Munch treatment

(from the lo-pro blog)

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what the hell is that?! pedals say modern, but everything else says the opposite. and lower tension blades on a pursuit build (I'm guessing because the yellow nm tab matches the colour highlights?).
'seatstay' looks like a greyhounds legs in action though.

(want.)

I think about 2000 was when the UCI banned non-diamond frames. If it's in the Look factory collection, they probably just stuck some new pedals on it as it's likely that it was ridden with clips and straps when new, and that wouldn't look right.

That 595 up the page has had me searching, and failing to find, a bike and it's doing my head in. There was a Look (pretty sure it was a medium 595 Ultra) a guy from the UK was trying to shift on Weight Weenies for ages and ages. He kept posting a new ad every week, first for the full build I think, then frame only.

I reckon it was the best looking Look I've ever seen, and maybe the best looking road bike full stop. Something about the smaller size of the frame making it quite sloped...looked like it was floating up an alp standing still in the dude's garden.

In my searches I came across this. Amazing how a nasty wheelset can render a bike fugly!

I believe thats the same 595 as above, with said fugly wheels and a much better sram groupset

^that's the one I was talking about - is the same dude as with the deeeeep zipps up there, pre wheel and groupset change. this is the internet-famous white 595 with boras. If I keep spamming away, maybe my bike will one day be internet famous.
the owner now has a very tasteful c59 I believe.

(not with the seattube spacer stack. I know.)

e: hovis is faster than me.

mmm want. Love those bars/stem