Mercian Rapha Continental tribute

I like it, good to have the option like you say 👍

Rode this to work for the first time in weeks fully laden , was a great ride. Forks need cutting down, just bought some Columbus tusk straight matte carbon forks for a lighter version

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Looks boss-saw some pink hubbed Chris King wheels on eBay yesterday for £275 that would be perfect for this ;)

If pinks your thing I got some Pink lizard skin bar end plugs

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Looks fantastic with the steel fork. Proper road bike. I have to say (imo) they have to be the ugliest cranks Campy have ever made.

Cheers! I saw those wheels - could those be changed to a campag freehub?

Ah thanks for the offer - think I’ll stick with the black ones at the moment

They are Seriously fugly but my legs love the 48/32 at the front gearing!

I know what you mean, currently running 46/33, sub compact gearing is wonderful.

Yeah but buying new is spendy-you do see folk selling the conversion kits second hand from time to time too tho.

Personally I've ran Campag 10 on a shimano cassette and it's fine so long as you set up the shifting from the middle of the cassette rather than highest gear. Failing that you can get the Campag-spaced, shimano spline cassettes too which are ok so long as you're not looking for SRAM red lightness, tend to be more Veloce quality.

This one might be still for sells:
https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13108852/fs-chris-king-rear-r45-11-speed-conversion-kit-for-campagnolo

Just did a great 15 mile ride through Wiltshire lanes on this with my new neighbour Dave (2 metres apart)

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I’m loving the look of this

Yep, that'll do.
Just fresh bartape and 9/10 in my book (docked a point coz of them cranks)
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a rapha gentleman doesn't use 11-32

Looks boss 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Looks fab this, what a great project. I'm also suffering from garden envy looks cool.

This looks great, what tyre size is on there?

That is lovely.

27mm, but they tend to come up a bit larger, rim dependent, nearer 29mm.

Ah cheers, bought a late 60s bungalow and we're slowly discovering bits by cutting back. Here’s the rear garden from one of the bedrooms including useful hand rail!

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I’m a rapha whore though so sub compact is fine for my middle aged pins😀

Cheers! Had some brevet tape but put it in in a rush and it looked awful. This lizard skins tape is old and falling to bits.

idyllic potential there. well done on this.

I should't like this bike but I do. It's marvellous.