Serotta - Appreciation // Owners

Good work!

Was Looking at some cinelli straps but never went ahead with them. I wear five ten shoes which are are like glue with flats, you can wear them as normalish shoes and skid in them easily. I run clipless on my road bike and commuter

What's impractical about straps if you wear sneakers? If it's the getting in and out of them that you're not comfortable with just give diagonal ones a go, they'll work great with the pedals you have already

Pretty comfortable considering I run clipless on my road bike and commuter which is a fixed gear. I just don't like them dude if I wanted to be attached to the pedals I would just put my spare clipless pedals on. Will have a look round though. Literally only took the pics outside my front door

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You must enjoy going slowly as you have no hope of stopping quickly if you are going fast.

Seriously you are a fucking liability if you ride that bike on the roads. If you think it's ok then I don't care if you get hurt but it'd upset me that you might hurt someone else or damage that frame.

Always ran clips on my commuter fixed gear. Only recently went to flats on the shark and serotta when they were built as I had spare pairs of flats from my mountain bikes, for any riding apart from round the block the clips go on, "Will have a look round though". Back to Serotta's now?

Mmmm ti

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Build Rev. 1 - needs a few tweaks. New saddle - thinking Romin?

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DA 9000 and SLR.

Fuck DA! This is my commuter!

Commuting in style with a Ti Serotta. Would only change for a black saddle and matchy bottles, but fuck the looks as long as your ass likes it!

LOL. Where's the mudguards and rack?!

The stem angle needs to be reduced so it matches the angle of the top tube, also the stem needs to be longer. I quite like the current saddle.

To get the stem at the same angle would also require moar spacers to have bars in the same position. Unless of course you are suggesting lowering the bars. In which case as it's a workhorse commuter bike then the fit is more important than intetnetz biek aesthetics.

Nothing is more important than aesthetics- a well fitting bike gathers no likes if it doesn't look the part.

Yeah fuck it, stem should be slammed and internets likes will pay for the remedial back care.

I am extremely glad this thread has swung so quickly from "do the practical and safe thing" to "do the impractical and painful thing for aesthetics" (also I agree in both cases).

Given the fact that Ben Serotta was one of the pioneers behind modern bike fitting I see no fucking irony here.

I just found out that London's very own witcomb cycles trained ben serotta and three other American frame building pioneers Richard Sachs, Peter Weigle and Chris Chance.
Many people then trained under those and it eventually built created a whole frame building industry in america personified by nahbs show every year, with its blingtastic creations, and now many young British framebuilders now look to America training and inspiration. Now that most the old school builders have withered away.
It's funny how much influence a little shop in deptford has had.

Joe from Brooklyn Machine Works also trained in England, although I can't remember the exact frame builder

Crazy good weather, did a 50miler in this to try and dial it in, made a few tweaks and will do the sameness route tomorrow to hopefully have this completely on-point...

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Very nice! What size tires are you running? I'd like to put 25s on mine but I'm not sure I'll have the clearance.

I've got 25's on my CSI on wider archetype rims. They fit but the clearance is extremely tight, regularly get leaves etc stuck and making a racket

So not really fit for purpose.