E54s Quiver (Cervélo T1 completed)

Thread is getting ridiculous (in a good way). I don’t have a clue what you’re up to.

Also what’s this epic basement space you have? Is this just your house? There’s an Italian guy on eBay that sells some funky stuff and your space looks identical to his.

I’m envious on so many levels.

Being Italian I know the man (we all know eachother down here). He has some spicy stuff so the similarities with E54s are many

@Matisse CK sounds good - got a pic of the pic?

@yoshy thanks so much

@PhilDAS its in great nick but has some chips here and there 🎀

@young_gun 😏

@greeno @carlosbrown you mean the guy who sold the Lampre cannondale track and some cyclocross thingy?

In my case its the public part of the cellar of the entire house (15 or so flats). I started taking pics there for parts as with my tight time schedule it is very handy not to waste time searching for proper locations

Yeah that’s the guy, I remember seeing that cyclocross and I know someone on here bought the lampre track. He had a few interesting serottas for a while.

Great space. Looks ideal for bike tinkering.

Okay now hands down..

tl;dr warning

As I got some time to type in some stuff, I‘d like to shed some light on what has been/is going on behind the scenes when I mostly post pics in here.

Almost a decade ago I started my career in some kind of high profile/availability job and instantly I was fully hooked with our good old capitalism: bigger car, newer phone, larger flat and so on and so forth #youknowit. I collected stuff, I shopped a lot but it never had a (significant) impact on my happiness or well-being.

Over time, despite (because?) being quite talented, dedicated and therefore successful, I did feel worse and worse and I think around 2018 hit a peak hole when our first kid started walking and my wife and I had to coordinate (ie communicate) more and the week had to be scheduled. I noted that all my energy and dedication went into the job and by the time I came home (9-10pm) I was just wasted #allthetime.

Not surprising for many, it turned out that this was due to burn out/depression/pressure +X so after many weeks and approx. a million objections I contacted a psychologist for the first time in my life. I have been in treatment since.

Nowadays, I have the feeling that besides my bike projects, also my main project - my mental health X life X family - goes in the right direction. But this was hard work (again!) but not (only) in the office… I have now stepped down to a less stressful job plus I stopped working on Fridays to spent more time with my little family.

And during this time period I was able to escape the consumer society a little bit. Among other things I learned that its okay to love cars - but that at the same time it is okay just to look at other people‘s cars and find happiness without ever owning a special/expensive one.

As in some occasions I wasn’t even sure whether I could do ANY job ever again, I started to re-consider my most expensive hobbies (skiing/cycling) and I decided that from 2019 on I only wanted to spend bike money from bike money - I mentioned that earlier. I wanted to do this hobby notwithstanding a high or low salary, or a job/no job, respectively.

So besides some bikes and parts you see here, I was able to finance all bike clothes, tools, nutrition that way. I am not saying everyone should do this and I totally understand that it can also be great to swipe your visa for a 15K basso. But I learned that for me, happiness is more about the projects themselves. Plus the rewarding effect feels more real, when I actually had to work for finishing a project (ok mostly its scrolling classifieds on a phone display but its still work lol). Combining and finding old parts in all over Europe/the world and putting them together in my lil basement listening to some rap.

The Look 496 in this context always was a real dream for me. To be able to ride an olympic level bike on the track and to now how that feels. But on the other hand I always knew it was only temporary and to pursue a sale to give me the ultimate freedom to pursue smaller projects which, altogether feel great. I mean it was a bit of a coincidence ghat in December and January a lot of rare parts popped up but on the other hand it felt a bit as was a bit of a proof of concept my long term strategy you could say: oh theres a crazy CODA crankset but I have to buy an oversized frame with it? SURE. Oh theres an Easton Magnesium stem fitting my M800? Lets do this?

And by the end of February I will have gather many little puzzle pieces to go down to my basement for a while and just put together what I feel like doing.

In the little spare time I have at hand with two little kids and a still demanding job (but not a dead-crazy one), this now feels like a little freedom to me.

There, I said it.

XOXO

Love to read that you managed to go through dark times safely

Nice, all the best to you, sounds like you’ve found some valuable perspective and are doing well. Probably something there we can all learn from.

Did a lol at this…

I totally understand that it can also be great to swipe your visa for a 15K basso.

Thanks for sharing! I have a similar approach with the fixed budget and I can really relate to your enthusiasm for the hunt for bargains around europe :)

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14734425/

Loving this thread, and thank you for sharing with such openness your journey.

Thanks everyone

Been on here for a while now so I am feeling comfortable with it. Most of the time I read similar things from other people it helps me in some kinda way.

Back to topic… of course I needed some wheels, too!

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Nice work on the logo ;)

I can relate.

Edit: Except for the part about having money

@Matisse 😏
@Hulsroy 😌

Also did some subsequent research on the wheels and with the help of two friends I found out they are

HSon TB 14 hard anodized grey
With Sapim Leader spokes

(And what I was able to ID with my own eyes ;-):)

Dura Ace 7600 32h high flange hubs

I will try to keep the koga theme mostly japanese with the exception of the tubes (coz valves) and the rims (coz #nochoice)

Saddle will be kashimax (already arrived) and
seatpost (currently out of budget) stem as well as bars (both in transit) will be nitto 💸💸

Edit: The wheelset is the only bike part i can think of which i bought within 30sec without prior investigation

I know that in my age, you are supposed to build a house but I went for a 20€ wooden frame for my frames

Parents would be proud 🤡

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Black or silver

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Black. Looks great with the orange.

seconded

Silver ;-)

I think with the silver headset, seat clamp and spokes, silver ties it together nicely with the black finishing kit

Ahahaha
💀💀
2:2

Could also do this

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Black cranks with Olympic chainring plz

What about the other way around?

Edit: yeah wot he said

Silver cranks