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this topic should be useful;
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I did some half-assed Scotchbriting to finish it. Didn't wax or clearcoat it though. Stripping the paint off of the forks to get it to 'raw' carbon doesn't seem like a good idea to me / most people. I will most likely eventually paint them black though. The chain is pink because it was £10 cheaper than the other colours / non-coloured ones of the same type. The coloured rear tyre is disappearing later this week as it was only on as a temporary tyre.
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I find it very silly that they have rails which allow you to easily break the saddle then. Nice design flaw.!
It's not a design flaw. That's why saddle rails have a little guide on the side to show you the clamp area, like so:
Mounting the saddle outside of that area subjects the saddle to forces beyond the design parameters due to the effect of placing weight either too far fore or aft.
It would be a design flaw if they said you could mount it anywhere, but they don't for this very reason.
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wait, so you stripped the frame, but not the fork?
le sigh
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No polishing or new/stripped fork yet. Got a new stem, chainring and tyre. Found a nice set-up for the bars so that the tops are at a nice height for casual riding / maintaining speed and the drops are deep enough to get down low and put in some big power. Feeling good. It's just a shame the steel drops added about 400g to this build!
Sorry for the shoddy picture quality!
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A MacBook isn't a good device to take high quality, well angled shots. I try my best!
I wasn't talking about the picture;
. lower your seatpost and level your saddle.
Level your saddle, go for a ride then see how much it hurts and lower it slightly.
Saddle angle like that usually indicate it's set slightly too high.
the saddle should be level with the floor.
why is the saddle so slanty?
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I've just bought a dolan pre cursa frameset as a bit of a beater project but think I'm going to nitromors it down too and see how it turns out! This inspired me!
The Dolan Pre Cursa have a much smaller headtube length than the Vigorelli (130mm vs. 150mm of the 54cm), I too ordered one, hasn't ridden fixed for a long time and it been bothering me.
Mind you I'd go for the Cinelli had it not been for the fact they cost a little more than twice that of the Dolan, still don't mind having a couple of spacer to fit better on the Dolan.
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And you can get rid of all the disgusting decals. As soon as my PC gets chipped to fuck I'm going to have it stripped.
Edscoble - the frame your mate stripped, do you know how he did it? Might try to get mine blasted with something softer than sand. They do plastic bead blasting etc.
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Cinelli Vigorelli 2010 (with paint stripping)
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