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Some photos. Mainly good nick apart from the corrosion around the frontmost brake guide on the TT, and there is some very light bubbling round the other two guides - I cleaned round the front one with emery to try to show there's no perforation. Have a suitable headset that I'd include if required. I'd want to clear £80 after any fees, and postage which I have no idea of the cost of but would get a quote for. There is a minor scratch on the d/s chain stay. It's been cold set to 130mm. The head tube was replaced by Argos when repainted as it had a spiral fracture and I didn't bother having the badge replaced.
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I'll have a think what I want for it and sort some photos for this evening - just to add coll/del subject to anticipated relaxation of current lockdown unless you happen to be very close by!
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I have a 62cm Raleigh Elix frame and fork (reynolds 531), repainted in french blue by Argos about 10 years ago. Doesn't have great tyre clearance - particularly front. Could probably ship this week or coll/del within reasonable distance from Cheltenham. If that might suit let me know and I'll sort some photos.
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It's probably from around 1993/4. The early ones (first produced 1992 I think) were EL but then they started using EL / OS (which it is).
@ others - Apologies for the photo, sloping path really doesn't help does it :(
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that green serotta is dreamy
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Shimano LX FC-A452 crankset (170mm) 52/39t (the small ring is brand new Shimano) spare is a 42t-£10
Shimano 105 FC-1050 crankset (170mm) 52/39t virtually new Shimano rings-£20
Shimano BB-UN55 (68mm X 113mm) nearly new-£5
Shimano BB-UN55 (70mm X 113mm) nearly new-£5
Shimano 105 FD-1050 (28mm clamp)-£5
Shimano 105 RD-1055(medium cage)-£7.50
Shimano 105 RD-1050 (short cage)-£7.50
Shimano LX Sport FD-A452 (28mm clamp)-£5
Shimano LX Sport RD-A452 (short cage)-£7.50
Shimano 105 BR-1050 F/R Brakes (47-55mm drop)-£15
Shimano 105 levers (hoods are manky)-£5
Shimano 105 D/T shifters-£5
Shimano LX sport D/T shifters-£5
Shimano Tiagra (R400) levers VGC-£15
Shimano HG41 7Sp cassette (11-28) nearly new-£5Most has seen quite a lot of use but all working fine. One of the brakes is missing the little plastic spacer between the spring and the calliper body.
Edit - I've added prices for everything (think it's against the rules to solicit offers).
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To fuck off mindless pedants.
edit to add - no offence obvs
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Site doesn't want to let me post more than one photo at a time! Looks like the trick is to add them one by one...
I don't discount the possibility that my lack of experience in setting up a bike meant I missed a trick somewhere with the fd setup though. There are a couple of photos where I try to show the difference in offset in the fd braze on position between this and a frame with 'normal' tube, but maybe there is another way to get some further inboard adjustment?
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The build was mostly easy even though I'm a novice. I've not fitted STI gears before, but the documentation available from shimano was pretty good.
I did have one major issue with fitting the front derailleur - as far as I can see it's not possible to fit the R8000-FD without modifying it, because the wide, flattened section of tube at the bottom of the seat tube means that the mount point for the braze-on is too far out from the centre line of the bike to allow an acceptable chainline. Even with the FD adjusted to the most inboard position the chain had a huge dog leg in it.
Judicious use of the dremel on the part of the derailleur cage next to the H / L adjustment screws allowed it to move about 3mm further inboard and the chainline is now straight (small front sprocket to large rear sprocket). Clearance to the crank arm is pretty tight though. Indexing is all fine.
Headset is the Stronglight X19(?) (roller bearing) that Jeremy provided with the bike, (wheels are mavic open pro on Hope RS4. I know there isn't much love here for the Deda Murex stem, but when the covid19 crazyness is over I'm visiting the bike whisperer to have a fit and I'll wait for the outcome of that - with a view to getting something like a Pro Crome of a suitable length. Will probably wait till after the fit to tape the bars too. Been thinking about moving to speedplay from spds but who knows.
@JeremyDaval - thanks again, I <3 the frame :)
@billygoat8 - yes bought from Jeremy
@JT - it was pink but now red.
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Purchased from the forum.
The frame had some bubbling round the base of the ds seat stay (declared in the advert), and there was a bit of loose material that could be heard moving around if the frame was turned over, so the decision was made to replace the seat stays.
This allowed the colour change from pink to red. I could have tried to get as close as possible a match on the existing paint but felt that it wasn't a problem going with something a little different. The rest of the frame was kept as close as possible to the original. Argos did the work and I'm delighted with it.
Almost all of the original decals were available, and the rest of the paint effects were recreated as close to the original as possible. The seat stays had been engraved with the DANCELLI script, but on examination of the removed tubes it was apparent that a slightly heavier gauge had been used to allow this and so the lettering was recreated with a decal.
For a 25(?) year old frame the overall condition was great but the couple of small dings present were filled.
Here are a couple of photo of the frame after repaint.
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Jeremy - as promised!
Just to bookend this thread - I'll start a new thread to give some more details about the changes to the bike.
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£18.95 (inc postage) for 3ttt Pro light / Pro compe mtb bar and stem combo:
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Yeah, bin it. Throwaway society innit. #lessfaff
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Want - as executive desk toy obvs 👌
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@Tonzaman SL or SP most likely (from a quick google 🙂). No idea how you’d tell for certain.
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My Squadra - bought off the forum as a single speed. It’s Columbus TSX, and a dogs dinner component wise but helping me get out to do some winter miles.
Not seen the EL-OS ones shown on the second page of the brochure, but do occasionally see the Max frames:
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https://www.dba.dk/herreracer-andet-maerke-sa/id-1058124244/billeder/1/
Need one of these. Got to be Max though :)
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Philistine, vandal, monster, Puppy killer, despoiler of originality.
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Should have bought one of these in '89 instead of the Elix.