For Sale: Klein Quantum Race f&f 56.5 x 56.5

Planned to use this as my winter bike, but it will be too small and has to go. Super light frame, beautiful wild orange and gold paintjob. Bit of a cult object, however damaged with time in some places. Still a very attractive looking frameset. There's one tiny ding in top tube on the drive side, see pics.

Seat tube 56.5cm c-t
Top tube 56.5cm c-c

Including:

• seat post clamp
  
• Shimano front derailleur clamp (to fit any make of braze on front derailleur)
  
• 31mm seat post (grey, should be resprayed black imo)
  
  

More pics of this beast are here.

Yours for 250 Euros, delivered in the UK and most of the EU

Are all the cable liners still present?

Interested, however I sold my mint one, with HS (same size/colour) for £275.

I didn't take any liners out, the gear ones are there, cannot see the brake cable liners, I presume they are still in place.

About the price: I have checked around a bit (didn't find your ad btw, just some dots in the OP) and found this quite fair. 300 euros includes shipping, and equals about 240 GBP.

If the brake cable liner is missing then I have a specially bent coathook-and-magnet that I've used to re-liner these frames.

It is a pain in the arse, but once done it's done and you soon forget about it.

Just tried to run a cable through the top tube, did not come out the other side so I suspect the liner is gone...

Dammit, if you could pm me about your coathook+magnet solution I'll make sure there's a cable running through the top tube when it gets sold.

You can get replacement liners on Ebay.

^ nice, thanks for the heads up. I'll knock 9 pounds off the price then.

now 285 so buyer can order liners ^^

Dibs & pm sent. Done the Klein liners before not an issue, or maybe I got lucky!

I cabled the one in this thread: https://www.lfgss.com/thread94667.html which I believe is the same as the one that Peter V has for sale, albeit smaller and a different colour.

Technique I used was to unbend a coathanger, then pass it through one cable "port", and use the magnet at the other end to coax it out of the other "port".

Then you can push the end of your liner over the end of the coathanger, and draw it back out the way it went in- drawing the liner through with it.

You then thread the cable through as normal.

The cable stops in the frame come out (just screw in a long wood screw to the hole and use pliers to remove them) then you have a much bigger hole to aim for.
You don't need the liner for the brake cable (as it crosses the frame) and a little piece of standard cable liner is all that is needed for the gear cable where they exit the frame before the bottom bracket. This saves .066 grammes.

Magnets, coathangers, dental floss and hoovers.... All for the love of internal cabling!

hoovers?

hoovers?

To suck a piece of string/thread through the frame...

I did it relatively easily by laying the bike flat and using a coat hanger with a slight bend about an inch from the end. Marking the length on the wire helps so you know when you are in the right place.

a proper science on its own...

@Black-T, it's ready to go, packed & boxed!

Best (IIRC) to cross the shifter cables over so that they arc out of the frame, then into the opposite shifter if that makes sense- stops the cable rubbing on the head tube.

=More fun with cable guide

The cable stops in the frame come out (just screw in a long wood screw to the hole and use pliers to remove them) then you have a much bigger hole to aim for.

Didn't know this, that would make things a lot easier.

Great thanks Peter! Can't wait to get this one built, thinking Yankee build SRAM etc...

provisonally sold, pending payment

I have a full Klein Quantum Race road bike in excellent condition for sale with a Dura Ace set, running Dura Ace drive train and brake set. It is a proper Klein, made before it was taken over by Trek. It is a great bike, beautiful frame. It is a glow in the dark paint job. The frame is suitable for anyone between 5 foot 6 to 5 foot 11 I would say. Frankly the bike is too small for me as I am 6 foot 1, so I am getting another Klein. I am based in North London, Any one interested in seeing photos or purchasing email me at jackp59@gmail.com as I would be happy to discuss.

jackp59

maybe you could post an ad in classifieds yourself, as opposed to hijacking mine?

thanks.

Anyway... About the fabled and oftentimes puzzling 'Klein geometry': US built frames (Trek too) usually have a longer top tube (in relation to the seat tube) than European frames. Most in the latter category and about the size of this Quantum Race on offer here have a top tube that is 2 cm shorter. I'd advise a deeper riding position or a shorter stem (less than 10cm) to comfortably ride bikes like these. That, or just long arms/upper body.

Black-T, if you changed your mind, please let me know, thanks