For Sale: track bike for sale

I think 1300 is price of the bike and the 15.00 is delivery costs? Maybe?

Lovely bike

very nice

very nice but the stacked spacers totally ruin it for me

whoever buys this bike can chop down the steerer to their own requirements,

the reason for the spacers stacked has already been covered in post 23

Build isn't to my taste but this is amazing nonetheless.
Would you split?
Price for f&f?

why what's wrong with what's on it - what do you want to build the frame up with ?

Nothing wrong with it at all. I'm just not into the retro/vintage feel.

I have a Dura Ace track groupset burning a hole in my pocket is all!

May I ask why you're selling it? It seems a shame for you to get rid of something so unique to you.

yes it is a shame but as you've asked, here goes.........................

it's value is higher to an aesthete than a utilitarian and my continuing move across that spectrum (and in that direction) is reaching a new tipping point

priorities have shifted and i'm having a total 'night-of-the-long-knives' clear out (possibly/probably one i'll regret) but right now i'm on a mission. frankly time is money and i'm very short of time, everything i can liquidate is essentially a sink of time that i can spend as i choose - and the ownership / existence of all superfluous objects is becoming more offensive and burdensome each day .

post tour & l'erioca - if i've cleaned out enough stuff/made enough more money (i.e. liberated back my own time from the business ) then i might feel different and hold it.

i'd rather not split it now as ill have to sell every other part on it's own then - it's a '50s style design with '50s style stuff on it, so the frame was always intended to have this kind on stuff on it.

also note that these sprints are from the 27" era and so a little bigger then modern rims - (28"/700c), which may not extend through the split seat tube as far

Thank you for an informative post.
Genuinely good luck with sale.

1199

no longer unridden -i had a super short spin on a flat road on this during l'eroica, with stem now above the spacers

it has toe overlap as i suspected (depending on front wheel placement and size of feet)
and the rear wing nuts catch heels ..........which never occurred to me, but the wing nuts were only for it's parade look

and on the track neither of these things should matter - you'd have to fit proper nuts (supplied)anyway
and you shouldn't be steering so much as the toe-overlap would come into effect.

Very interesting and beautiful bike!

i want this bike. but i fear that i cannot afford it

Interested! Would this be suitable for someone who is 6'3"?

possibly -height itself need not be a problem - reach really dictates the fit of a bike
i'd suppose a longer stem (1" ahead style) and possibly longer / more laid back seatpost (27.2) might be needed -

but please see also top tube details in post 19 above - it's deceptively small as a measurement due to steep seat tube .

so whilst top tube length can differ on bikes with the essentially the same reach (and other stem / posts / bars can increase reach) - the real test of size of a bike would be the measurment horizontally from BB to crown of forks as this is fixed

layback added on seatpost/saddle takes you further behind the BB axis - which is what you'd need for longer thighs

also the distance of hands in front of the steerer due to longer stem/bars may affect steering
. but the current bars are of the style as to have little reach on drop beyond the tops anyway- a very 50s style.

a more modern bar with more reach within the bar itself may be used, giving more reach on drops but not having to increase reach on the tops. (so to increase reach on drops and tops - fit other stem, and to increase reach on drops only, fit other bars)
also remember the dropouts on the front are adjustable offset so you can dial in and out more or less trail to tweak the handling and so add more reach in front of the steerer than may be the case had we gone for traditional fork ends.

strangely if you look at a lot of off the peg bikes, the reach seems to remain much more constant than height (in some cases completely so) as the sizes go up. and even more so the wheelbase seems to be constant through differing sizes of a model of bike -

as this was built to be a micro wheelbase (in the 50s/60s they were obsessed by shortening the rear end of the bike- strangely enough without ever bothering to revert to smaller wheels which seems the obvious and easy option) if we'd built it for someone bigger , it would have been built pretty much the same with a higher top tube (and longer seat tube, steerer and possibly seatstays that would necessitate)

my mate of about your size had a short ride of it at l'erioca no probs - come and have a go if you like.

Thank you for all the info!
Will send you a PM as soon as my account is fully activated

Still awaiting activation...

PMed

awful tdf sales on holme moss means cash injection needed quickly

last reduction before it's are moved elsewhere for sale - (which will happen v. soon if not sold here) :
1099 pickup from woodley or i can deliver anywhere in the county for 10gbp

closed - moved to the inevitable for clearance.

(sorry -last minute reprieve - actually still here until last day of july - due to hitting listing limits)

closed now

Dropped to clear now 999
My friend regularly travels to London and may be able to deliver there for c. 30 GBP.

Not for sale here riht now