Pompinstein / Ridley Oval

Recently acquired a nice Ridley oval 907c frame with HED forks on here so will be building that up with some new parts, some off my current bike. I'll also be turning the current one into something of a rat-monstrosity too.

Current bike:

New frame:

Planning to take the bars (FSA Omega compact) and stem (Easton EA90) off the pompano as well as the TA cranks to put on the Ridley. Thinking of changing the chainring to something black to go with the Easton EA70 seatpost i've ordered and the Phil to CXP33s i got from adoubletap on here too:

What's left of the pompino will have risers chucked on and the fairly stupid addition of these BMC/Easton forks as they're knocking about not doing much.

Not sure whether to get a stripped SLR or the like for the Ridley, or something cheap and cheerful for the pomp and swap the concor over... we shall see!

looking very promising!

What's left of the pompino will have risers chucked on and the fairly stupid addition of these BMC/Easton forks

That may be understating it. Putting a road fork on a Pomp drops the BB by about ½" and steepens the angles by nearly 2°, typically moving your saddle forward about 1", not to mention what it does to the steering geometry.

^this, keep the pomp forks with the frame, that's how it was designed after all. You would be better selling the forks and putting the cash into the ridley (which looks lush btw), this should be a promising build.

Points taken - appreciate the advice! Had the forks and headset up for sale a few months ago, no luck (along with the SLX01 frameset and Macbook Pro may i add!)

In the meantime i've ordered some Maxxis Refuse 23c tyres and have grabbed a stripped Felt SLR type thing from Tenderloin. Mainly just waiting for things to arrive now.

Would you interest in selling the BMC/Easton forks? Look to have a good bit of steerer left on them...

Is there any chance you'd run the Ridley frame with the BMC forks?

^this but I assume they're 1 1/8 and the Ridley a 1"

Would you interest in selling the BMC/Easton forks? Look to have a good bit of steerer left on them...

Had the forks and headset up for £80 a while back, just after the forks?

Surely nobody on LFGSS is going to buy that BMC fork until you replace the U that's missing from the decal on the inside of the fork blade?

nah ridleys a 1 1/8 too

Surely nobody on LFGSS is going to buy that BMC fork until you replace the U that's missing from the decal on the inside of the fork blade?

haha! tipex at the ready...

Any idea of the rake and axle-crown on the fork?

I believe there rake's 43mm, axle-crown i can't see anywhere online, i'll have to head up to the loft and measure manually - i'll get back to you on that.

Cheers

Tape measure says 360mm give or take!
about 270mm of steerer too.

bmc fork on the ridley. do it!

Tape measure says 360mm give or take!
about 270mm of steerer too.

Just need to measure the Condor tomorrow.

Cool, no worries!

Everyone else - although it'd fit the Easton vibe (stem/seatpost) i'm not sure how black/white forks would look with a black/silver frame, as fickle as that may be.

You could matte black them.

Just put them on it and see (and take a photo for us).

By popular request, here's a photo with the BMC forks on. I have to say I doubted before, but do quite like it... thoughts?

http://i.imgur.com/wr4oWxr.jpg

that's a no brainer for me. do it!

Yea it looks sweet , do it

Looks nice actually, better than the ones on there before. Could be wise to get a shorter headset collar, doesn't look like much steerer there. You want to have the whole stem wrapping the steerer is possible with a small spacer on top, I suppose this is personal preferance.