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53cm Merckx Flyer for not much/realistic money

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155178283088

Rear mech tapping out in submission there

That's grim, nothing gets to escape the Brighthouse rental treatment. Palm Angels also sounds a bit smutty

Owner stopped to buy bleach to apply to their eyes perhaps?

I bought one of these and it's good for cleaning all the brake dust off the track, gets rims looking as good as possible:

https://www.wiggle.co.uk/swissstop-swissclean-rim-cleaner

This is looking so good, and well done for keeping the photos and updates coming!

Found this on ebay and immediately thought of your bike, the back and white halves are even the right side! Could either be perfect or a step too far...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165679421591

"At that moment my friend distracted me to look at a bird in one of the display counters and I went over to have a look."

Schnarf.

CAAD 5 Multisport with the Ironman paint job
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265871341274

True dat

Having had the misfortune to live there when I was young, there's fuck all to laugh about

Hi there, I'll take the Kalloy stem please

This makes for a blissful read. The idea of meandering through France, doing some cycling then leaving the boat if needed and returning at a later date to carry on the adventure is so cool

Hi there, if you'd be willing to post I'm happy to pay the asking price plus postage

Been enjoying this so far and looking forward to seeing it built up. Credit to you for photographing each stage! The paint looks incredible for a home project, the decal outlines really ice the cake

Yowser, lovely build. Frame colour is fantastic

Got caught on ebay after that singleton deathtrap tandem and came across these forks, £75 seems a good price for skinny carbon forks, might suit a steel build after a respray?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304600718531?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=N3X3fZ8QRlu&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=6ZuJFPOCTo2&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

But at least he won't clip his heels on the bag

Fuck that would make Heath Robinson baulk!

Thanks for that, very useful!

No problem! Yeah that's strange, most frames route nicely with LH front/RH rear so as a Brit I've reversed my brakes from the norm to suit the frames I have. You could reverse the lever/cable setup and route the rear cable round the head tube from the LH lever, or keep it as is and a small piece of clear frame protector tape where it touches.

Thanks for sharing, what a story. Like Svein Tuft before becoming a pro but turned up to 11!

For context on Svein Tuft: https://www.velonews.com/news/road/qa-parsing-truth-from-fiction-in-svein-tufts-legendary-hobo-adventures/ and https://lifeinthepeloton.com/2019/07/31/svein-tuft-sveinos-journey/

Looks rapid stood still - really good looking build and a lesser seen frameset to boot.

Regarding cabling, you might find crossing the gear cables between bars and DT stays, then back over along the downtube to route correctly makes for neater curves and less chance of rubbing the headtube. This thread on Weight Weenies sheds some light on the matter, found it useful when I was at the same point as you dialling in fit/shifter position (picture of the red Trek/owner Calnago's explanation):

https://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=150559

I did it on my Ridley (oddly located stops and internal routing) with Chorus 11 -speed and it runs nicely.

Will pass on the DMR fork thanks, GLWS

Dibs on the DMR fork pending measuring up my Sidekick headtube tomorrow!

That sounds mega, connoisseurs build! I'm a big Campagnolo fan but too tight to ever have dipped my toe in the EPS water, good luck with it