Ominous omnium - Burley de Fer

Plans cancelled, see below for updates !

Lovely, personally prefer 10/12 degree stems on CAAD's but i guess if you have something already it makes sense. Cannondale low stack bearing dust covers improve looks to IMO

https://www.westbrookcycles.co.uk/cannondale-road-headset-top-cap-bearing-cover-5mm-p265941/s403447?gclid=Cj0KCQjw84XtBRDWARIsAAU1aM3r0QWCBG0lAphQQiOWn_Ak-p1uKnZZUmxiwNrP43Gl3_bvuOUTjf0aAmkQEALw_wcB

Bravo, subbed.

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Absolutely i have that on my caad12., like a single shallow spacer for a bottleneck look. The thing is the campagnolo headset is stock and still running great, there is a sticker confirming that on the seatstay, so i am in two minds...

Looks awesome, subbed!

Older Caads are pretty much horizontal, whereas the newer ones work better with -10/-12 I think?

Subbed, love this colour way and love caads.

I have a zipp -17 on my caad 12 and it is pretty much horizontal. Geo geeks confirm that this one has a 73 degrees headtube so i think i'll have to go -17

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Alright starting this thread from scratch.
I didn't expect it... but my current bikes and project are almost all steel, and have been built almost entirely via the forum, so i thought i'd document them on here.

First up is my tokyo fixed bought, frame originally bought on here from Jamjam.

First build with, sugino 75, track easton/novatec wheelset, and various thomson parts :

currently riding it as a trainer with tri bars, possibly a little divisive but i've been enjoying the extra speed it provides. I have been swapping the front wheel with a reynolds assault tubeless so am thinking about having another rear built with similar depth and width.
Now with narrower 42cm pro vibe bars, a -17 stem, anda short nose pro stealth saddle.

Next up my gravel croix de fer.

In its early phase a a commuter :

With a temporary bontrager fork to try out straight blades instead of the underwhelming cdf forks :

and now with a series of improvements : Whisky carbon forks, superzero seatpost.
Wheels are Hope rs4 with stans grail rims, 24h/24h, keeping things as light as possible on a budget... the whole thing is over 9kg but the front end has really come alive with the whisky forks.

next up on this build are sram force cranks, and possibly a TRP hylex / di2 GRX setup

Looking good man.
iIf a 57 ever pops up I would defo buy another.

thanks, it's a bit a rocket now with that cockpit and the carbon wheel. still heavy btu compensated by the confort it gives over bumps and rough tarmac. i muts have done a good 2000km on it now

So not quite steel, but since purchasing this BMC slr 01, it's been sitting in a bag in my office.

Now is the time to think about building it for next summer !
It's BB30 and had a rotor adpater fitted. It took me about 3 hours to unscrew it as it was completely loctited. I could have left it in place as it was pretty much new but wanted to fully strip the frame and wasn't sure about which cranks to use.

Nice!

Not quite a dedicated WW project, but it will be light.

Since then i have purchased :
a praxis Gxp adpater ( which turned up without seals so i need to find those )
some stripped sram red gxp cranks off @Dick, thank you very much.
52x38 TA specialities rings for cheap ( bringing the total weight of crankset to a tiny 540 grams )
Tune cages
da9100 calipers.

The plan is to build some 45mm Light bicycle rims that i have lying around, shimano dura ace derailleurs, ultegra 6800 shifters ( quite like the feel of those and for some reason i don't scractch the cheaper ones ) ...unless some newer ones show up.

Little side budget flatbar #tracklocross project that came to life. dedicated to commuting, school pickups and a little off-road fun. on-one pompino, with straight alloy/carbon disc forks, deore hydro brake, 650b wheelset, easton carbon flatbar

everything purchased on here @5115_Pete @hoops ' painted old bontrager forks found a convoluted way to end up here

Looks like great fun. I owned those forks briefly (they've done the rounds). Found them a bit flexy under braking tbh.

I have been force fed a Giant Omnium frameset, looking to build this soon with fancy parts .

also assembling a bland flatbar green croix de fer for commuting and summer touring with a burly tag along.