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Andre,
Is the headset technically the external part or internal parts of the bearings where the stem goes down to the forks? If its the external part, then no, that says "Deda" on it. The pedals are the ones on the bike. (ie. not Dura Ace) I do not know exactly what constitutes a complete Dura Ace groupset (would that include pedals and headset then?) but the 2-3 pages of original receipts make no mention of any credits for Dura Ace parts not being supplied, therefore I would expect a complete Dura Ace groupset to have been supplied at the time of purchase, whatever that complete groupset was. Given that this bike was only ever ridden for circa 20 mins on a turbo trainer, and then the original purchaser became seriously ill (not whilst on the bike!) I find it hard to believe that they would have swapped out the headset?! Even the cables are Dura Ace 25th Anniversary and the handlebar tape is original unused condition also!!
I could more easily understand them removing clip in pedals (& hence misplacing them) to fit cage pedals to make the bike easier to ride on a turbo trainer, or maybe they didn't even have the correct cycling shoes to fit Dura Ace clip in pedals? It took the original owner 7-8 months of staged payments to be able to actually buy the bike and take it home, (from the receipts) and they became ill within a very short time after getting it home, so its not unthinkable that they wouldn't immediately have had the wherewithal to purchase clip-in shoes. The headset would be much harder to understand as I said....
I have plenty more photos, yes, but it says that you can only upload a max of 5 files on here?
If you would like more photos, please PM me your email address and I will send them over tomorrow. Cheers. -
ra1,
Hey, don't knock Huge Grant, I would gladly give away my Cannondale to spend a night with Liz Hurley?!? :)
Funnily enough, earlier today I had been looking at your lovely CAAD 7 which you sold, and before I got to the bottom of the thread and realised it had been sold, I was thinking "Mmmm, that's lurrrvely, I think I might buy it?.." so when I read it was sold, I thought "Phew! Blimey, I nearly had a relapse and bought another bike when I am supposed to be downsizing!?"
So....maybe that's what happens to all the nutjobs in cyberspace who I never hear back from?!
I'm going now.
Before TM chastises me again. -
I used to read "Viz" a lot when at University, and sometimes I think I may have subconsciously absorbed some of the prose of "Top Tips" or indeed Roger Mellies wonderful "Profanisaurus"
An attractive young filly recently commented that I reminded her of "a poor mans' Hugh Grant" which I took as meaning that I was in with a chance, but of course, the reality was somewhat different!!! :) -
TM,
Apologies, I had forgotten that rule. I can understand the thinking behind it (to stop people bumping items on a daily basis and hogging the top of a board) but it has been 2 months since anyone last messaged on my thread, so I don't feel like I was hogging the top of the board, and in truth I am surprised I was chastised for bringing it to the top after 2 months!? :) But point taken. Am I allowed to add some new photos by the way or would that incur more chastisement? ;) )Road Warrior,
I tried registering a few months ago with the website you mention but I don't think there are any administrators on that forum? I sent 2 or 3 extremely polite emails asking for help/assistance in posting items on there as the programming seems very clunky and I couldn't list anything, but I never received a single reply & hence never managed to list an item. -
Surely there is somebody out there in the London area who happens to be into cycling?!?! ;)
If I had £10 for everytime someone had said to me "If I hadn't just bought another bike...etc etc..." or "If only I was 2 inches taller/shorter, I would have bitten your hand off!" I would verily be a rich man by now!!
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Sell it for £300 or more ?! Its unused. :)
Having said that, I would much rather someone kept the whole bike together in original condition, in memory of the original owner (sentimental old git that I am!)
But the longer it goes without selling it, and the more time I have to waste answering umpteen inane questions from various people the more I have to be realistic and think....I just need to get on & sell some of my bikes!!
(1 guy on LFGSS messaged me within 2 hrs of me listing it saying that they wanted it and they would pay the full price, only to drop out 7 hours later saying they "had had a change of heart, and sorry for wasting your time" another guy messaged 30 mins after the first one saying he "would definitely buy it from me, but would I accept the payments over 2 months?" and when I messaged him back to say I possibly would, or at least a deposit until he could afford the rest, I have never heard from him since...!!?
Another guy from Plymouth contacted me via ebay when it was previously listed on there a few weeks ago and asked 25-30 questions about the bike over 4-5 days, and on 2 different occasions stated he would be happy to pay the full price and he definitely wanted it. However he could never answer the phone when I called him, texting back that "his wife was always around and he wasn't allowed any more bikes, so he was doing it on the QT" After 3-4 times of me calling him and him never answering the phone but always texting back quite promptly, I decided I had had enough of being "catfished" and I was obviously being jerked around by teenagers, or someone who had a serious mental illness. (nothing to be laughed at mind but I had no idea that there were quite so many people with "problems of the mind" until I started trying to declutter my lifetimes hoarding by listing it for sale?!?!... )
Has anyone else been shocked by how many nutjobs there are in cyberspace? -
Now £950 You could sell the groupset for more than this!!?
He did.
He was one of the "crazies" I mentioned in my messages above!!
He contacted me late one evening within 2-3 hours of me listing this bike a couple of months ago saying he would have it and how did I want to proceed...? Then early the next morning, (before I had even read his previous message saying he wanted it), he sent another message saying he had had a change of heart in the intervening 7 hrs and sorry for wasting my time!!
I replied saying no worries, and what had caused his change of heart, but I never heard a dickie bird back from him!!
It's par for the course in cyberspace though!!