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I think pretty much everything is now sold. Thanks for everyone's interest.

Just the Concor San Marco Supercorsa to go!

Are these saddles too much like fake-retro for people to actually be interested in them?

Kennaway: Yep, the forks are 1 1/8th.

CasaSteve: were you after frame only? Have I put up enough pics or would you like some more? and where would you like it posting to? so many questions! :-)

[3] - forks. Full set of photos. Info was -- Guess carbon forks. New in March 2012, maybe 400-500 miles. Good for 28mm tyres. but fatties don't fit fine :-) Plenty of steerer. Fork crown race available with headset (below). Star nut fitted. No top cap. £30

Price drop on the mismatched Sugino's! Now £80.

Very open to offers on these, and offers for splitting them, too.

[2] and [3]

Steamroller frame, 53cm. 2008 vintage. Matt black. Rubbed through showing white mark on top tube, where I think there is a slight ding. Otherwise good nick. £90

Guess carbon forks. New in March 2012, maybe 400-500 miles. Good for 28mm tyres. but fatties don't fit fine :-) Plenty of steerer. Fork crown race available with headset (below). Star nut fitted. No top cap. £30

Frame and forks together - £110 (tenner off!)

Frame tentatively prov dibs by sammo1789 but he's unsure on size.

Also: m-part headset and unknown BB (the one still in the frame) - £10

Below is a couple of photos from earlier this week when it was still fully built. It is now half-stripped, I'll finish it this weekend and will add some more photos then...

I'm in London, E3, but yep, can happily post. I recently got some forks over to France so can even go abroad, I reckon!

About to pop out to deliver the wheels and then for the evening - should get the last few bits off the frame tmw, and will then put some proper pics up

It's a 53cm. In other discussions I have been working towards these prices:

Frame - £90
Fork - £30

Or Frame and Forks for £110 (bargain!)

BB (brand unknown) and M-Part headset for another £10?

Very prov dibs by sammo1789 from a wanted thread, but he's not sure about the size.

[4] Concor saddle. £25.

This is one of the popular Concor San Marco supercorsa retro leather saddles. It is in fairly good condition and has not developed a shiny patina - it still has a bit of fur.

Unfortunately, it is a fairly unpopular colour. Anyone following my project thread will have realised I cannot find a shade of clue to match! Because of this I'm offering it up at a less-than-half-price-of-new £25.

Here is an initial photo:

This weekend I will give it a proper clean and brush, and post a photo of that when done. But feel free to dibs it meanwhile :-)

Classifieds are here for anyone interested -- A Sale of Two Surlys

^^ rogan, hopefully the pics above shed a bit more light on the mismatch.

[1] Sugino 75 cranks. 165mm, 144BCD. These are mismatched! which is not a good thing. I am not even entirely sure exactly which Sugino cranks they are, so if anyone wiser than me can help, let me know. Therefore I also welcome corrections on my expected price, which may be way out if these aren't actually 75s.

The LH crank is a steel-grey, the RH gloss black. The LH one has a few small nicks to the gloss, the RH one is better. You can also see the Goldtec 44T sprocket.

Here's the other side of it all, excuse my greasy fingerprints:

Close up of the back of the left hand crank. This seem to be pretty definitely an SG 75 T ...

Here's a close up of the back of the right hand crank. There's nothing as helpful on this. From the position of the logo on the front side, I think it is a 75 rather than a messenger. Also the JAPAN H-9 text matches the LH crank.

A lot of my diagnosis came from here:

http://www.suginoltd.co.jp/english/product_crank_sg75144_black_english.htm

£100 for cranks. Includes crank bolts, which I forgot to photograph. Or happy to split, given they are different colours!

£10 for Goldtec ring.

Prov dibs to Bikenut63, who spotted them in the project thread and registered an interest!

Sale of frame/forks/cranks/wheels/misc as I strip down a Steamroller and build up a Cross-Check, to accompany this project thread.

I'll list the bits here and keep this list up to date. I'll give each item a post below with pics, etc.

[1] -- Sugino 75 cranks, mismatched (age/brand/colour). Was £100. Now £80. Sold £60.Goldtec 44T ring. £10. Sold £5
[2] -- Steamroller frame - 53cm - some info below, more photos to follow. £90. Sold with [3]
[3] -- Guess carbon forks - Info and photos below. £30. (£110 for [2] and [3] together). Sold £110
[4] -- Concor San Marco Supercorsa leather saddle. Blue. £25. Photo and post added below. Now £20. Sold £20.
[5] -- Rear wheel. Rigida black rim, Silver System EX high-flange hub. 18T singlespeed cog. SOLD as wheelset with [6].
[6] -- Front wheel. Unknown black rim. Silver System EX high-flange hub. SOLD, £60 as wheelset with [5].

BLB blue it is... seems to match other stuff... and I am glad to get rid of the suede saddle!

So, just taken some bits off the 'roller so I guess it has rolled its last. First up for sale will be the crankset, I'll post a classified next -- Bikenut63 I'll put you down for prov dibs.

One of the reasons I have been quite motivated to do this project is that I felt the 'roller arrived off ebay with a bit of a jumble of mismatched kit - as if the previous owner had assembled a bunch of brand names with no real theme - eg the delicate high flange hubs versus the brute of a BMW cluster fork! In this case, I've just discovered the left-hand crank is a different colour to the right! I always was confused as to what colour it really was - assumed it must be the light, but no...

Dug this up from the search. Have got a project in mind for those bars - £5?

Ah good to hear, thanks! Meanwhile, have placed a couple more orders with the staples, Wiggle and CRC, and apart from coloured pieces, I think I have everything I need to complete the project. Amourtex promised the frame for Monday coming, which should coincide nicely with some deliveries...

I better get down to BLB tomorrow and have another look at blue saddles...!

First big parts order gone in, from http://www.rosebikes.co.uk ... a new supplier for me, anyone had any dealings with them? They are German, their prices seem excellent - it was a tip from the guy from whom I bought the C-C frame.

Good knowledge! I take it back about the seatpost. Everyone else seems to have the round bit sticking out as well.

Arthur, yep, I agree, that BLB bike needs to go into anti. The one in the shop was on a silver frame, which helps, I think, but it also had a blue crankset as well as the wheels... I think it is particularly the wheels that are the fail - just seems a bit much? I am quite a fan of following your advice for just saddle, cables and a few bits...

Bikenut, awesome, would be nice to rehome spares to another 'roller! Anything catching your eye already? My shopping list is nearly done, I am hoping to do some ordering tonight, so spares are looking like --

• frame (headset, seatclamp avail too)
  
• forks (crown race to match headset)
  
• Sugino cranks
  
• front sprocket
  
• wheels, inc singlespeed cog, or happy to split these
  
• probably the pedals, unless I keep them for commuting
  
• .........and maybe the saddle depending on the outcome of all of the above!
  

....and seatpost extension!

Don't think this is a re-post, I had a quick search, but excuse me if it is. Anyone seen this wonderfully colour coordinated bike currently (July, anyway) in the foyer of the V&A?

Held up by this fella:

BLB do seem to be embracing blue, I saw something along these lines in the shop today...

but as you say ^^^ it has to be subtle otherwise you end up looking like an XR3i doing laps of a market square with blue LEDs under the doorsills...

Cookies, thank for the tip, that lead me to some Clarks cables, which look pretty good, certainly as a match for the BLB saddle, and not too far off the Concor I have... and they do both brake and gear in the same set, so matched outers seems a bit more likely, as opposed to mixing different brands... also while browsing the BMX section I found these...

blue bling donuts

hmmm dangerous....

So... after starting to get cross-eyed looking at blue cable outers on the web, I went round a few bike shops to try to see what shades of blue there are out there... I ended up a bit disappointed. The idea for blue bling came from a determination to embrace the otherwise-incongruous saddle because it would be an unusual colour for a project... but it seems the reason it might be unusual is because nothing matches!

What to do? Ditch the saddle and start over?

I did find that anodized blue isn't too far off and bought a mini light on a whim:

so I could do the cables in grey and perhaps match that to bar tape, and use just a few blue highlights.

Or the BLB Fly saddle in blue would let me carry on in the same vein (I still like the idea of blue as a slightly different look), and I could find cable outers to match that. But it does seem a bit anti my re-use-existing-bits principle to ditch the saddle off my current bike because it is 'slightly the wrong shade of blue'.

Mind you, as my first photo shows, the Concor is looking pretty stained at the moment, and that was from just 15mins in the rain on Tuesday night, I'd cleaned it on Monday. So perhaps ditching it isn't a bad idea. I must admit the idea of a suede saddle has never really appealed...

What does anyone think?

yep it is a bit! When I dropped it off at Armourtex he said something like, 'should have no problems with this, we do a lot of these'...

The bike ride was a bit nervous, I kept forgetting that I had a big steel outrigger and kept aiming for the usual gaps... then worrying about scraping along the sides of shiny cars or getting my neck wrenched off.

^^^^ Thanks hugo7, added them to my shopping list

^ Crispin, I can certainly vouch for the smooth ride of a Surly Steamroller. Enjoying that so much after ~12 years of aluminium-only has been a big reason for me getting back into road riding and now going for the Cross-Check, which I hope will be as smooth.

I'm just starting a Cross-Check build; I spent a bit of a while through August deciding between Cross-Checks and Pacers and indeed I think ^^^^^^^^that was me that was posting Pacer links on the ebay thread...

Anyway! I really like Captain Sensible. Can I ask how you're finding the mudguards - are they RaceBlades - how wide are your tyres - have you had any issues with such a close fit or do they run fine? They look great being so close fitting, so would be good to know how they're working out.