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So my wife's looking to get her first carbon fibre road bike for weekend rides and the odd sportive. It's difficult to look past Planet X on pure price if, like both my wife and I, you know next to nothing about bikes.

The Planet X thread on here hasn't seen much action recently - can the hive mind remind me whether or not it's a good idea to go with one of their their Pro Carbon deals? She's ridden a borrowed pro carbon and got on with it, so geometry/fit shouldn't be an issue.

Thanks...

Cranks SOLD to @fizzy.bleach - good to meet you, and best wishes for the build!

English thread I believe, though English and Italian are supposedly pretty much interchangeable.

Price drops on the saddle and freewheel.

Stem provisonally sold and bars now available for £15

MORE PRICEDROPS on these wheels, and happy to accept any reasonable offer to get these out of the shed.

All available to collect from Leytonstone E11 or elsewhere in London between there and Vauxhall.

27" Rear Wheel with tyre and tube £5/beer

Hub: Maillard 36h
Freewheel: Not included, threads on hub are in good condition
Rim: Rigida Superchromix 1 1/4"
Tyre: Schwalbe Puncture Protection with no cuts and plenty of life left

The axle has bolts either side, no QR. Rim has plenty of pitting/rust to the chrome but otherwise all in good condition.

700c Tubular Wheelset (Mavic, Fir, Saturne) with tyres £30/make me an offer


Built on nice Mavic 500 hubs front and rear with matching Mavic QRs
Rear:
Fir Squadra Corse Wega Rim 36h
Sachs Maillard Aris 6sp Freewheel
Well worn but still usable Conti Gatorskin tub

Front:
Saturne HT-S20 Rim 28h
Vittoria Rally tub with a fair few small cuts but still holding air

Both rims have a dark grey anodised finish, and both have plenty of wear on the braking surfaces but otherwise in really solid condition with years of riding left in them.

700c Tubular Wheelset £20/make me an offer

Front:
Mavic 500 hub, 36h
Mavic Montherly Pro Rim

Rear:
No name black hub, 36h
Saturne HT-S20 Rim dark grey anodised
Regina Synchro 6sp freewheel
Currently no QR skewer but I could probably dig one out
One issue with this wheel - I had a tub roll off the rim and in the time that the back wheel was scraping along East London tarmac, it has worn down a patch of the rim edges (both sides) as shown in one of the pics above. I'm honestly not sure if you could get away with mounting a tyre as is, but more likely you'd need to replace the rim. Hopefully I've reflected that in the price.

Shifters SOLD

SOLD, thanks @VeloSurMer

OK, no reply from @lmananimal so I'll split the Cinelli bars and stem and sell seperately.

But will be doing so with the caveat above about the bars having slipped in the clamp the last time I rode on them. Also I did read online somewhere that the 1R stem should really only be used with matching (26.4mm) Cinelli bars of one sort or another.

Anyway, £15 each for the stem and bars.

Hi, @lmananimal are you still interested in the bars? If not I have a few PMs on them to get back to.

Yup, cranks are sold subject to me and @fizzy.bleach meeting up when I'm out of hospital at the end of this week.

@imananimal any interest in taking the bars and stem together? If not, I'll happily split and sell at £15 for each.

Here are the bars from the side - you've only get c. 40mm to grab on to before the first bend.

I've added a couple more images to the flickr album taken from the side too, plus this one showing the total weight of stem and bars at 529grams

OK, cranks provisionally sold to @fizzy.bleach and there are a few PMs on the bars/stem for me to work through.

Sorry, badly worded description, they haven't been cut by me, this is how they come. I'll do better pic and measurement tonight.

Had some interest in the stem on its own, btw, if you'd be interested in just the bars. Preference through laziness would still be to sell them together, though.

Few bits and pieces that are surplus to requirements - can be picked up from Leytonstone E11 evenings, Vauxhall daytimes or potentially any sensible place in between.

Let me know if prices are off, make me an offer for more than one item.

Dibs that are followed by a PM will be honoured.

Shimano 600 crankset £SOLD

Barely anything left on the teeth of the small chainring, so would suit someone who never gets out of the big ring, Jens Voigt possibly

Not shown here but I do have the fixing bolts and washers (though not the dust-caps). Ok condition.

Koga Miyata Turbo Bio Saddle £18

Perfect if you're going for a period build of a 1989-90 Koga Miyata Full Pro (which is what this came off) or if you're not then, you know, it's a nice saddle. Cloth cover has no rips but is quite loose. Bit of rust on the rails should clean up OK.
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Cinelli black 110mm 1R stem and Eubios Diet bars £15 each or £25 for the whole cockpit.

Nice if slightly idiosyncratic cockpit. The 1R stem has a clamp bolt that pushes on an internal wedge, and before I swapped this off I had had the bars slip once or twice despite the bolt being fully tightened. A quick google suggests this is a known issue that can be addressed by a shim or some loctite. The bars are light and have a nice groove for running cables. The 'diet' refers to the fact that the drops section is cut down pretty short.

Few installation scratches on both but otherwise good condition.
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Regina Freewheel 6spd 12-17t £8

Really very lightly used, splines, threads and teeth all in great condition.
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Campag Record (?) 70s downtube shift levers £SOLD

I think these are as per these ones on Velobase, for use with bosses rather than band-on but they're without all the washers - only the bits shown in the photo. I've only given them a quick wash - a bit more effort might shift some more of the surface rust.

Ok, so exciting as this has all been, this rusty gem is now SOLD.

Let's all keep an eye on @VintageJon to make sure he does the right thing and restores this to its former glory.

Call out for @VintageJon , who's gone quiet. If I don't hear by tomorrow I'll get back to other dibs in order.

People, people, play nice. For what it's worth, @HillyBen, and as the OP, I just took @anidel's post as a firm expression of interest, not as an attempt to queue jump or to disrespect the sanctity of dibs. Plus he did really try hard to rouse my ardour in that nocturnal assignation, so respect to him for that...

It's tempting for sure, but after a disappointing encounter in an Essex car park with anidel last night, I'll pass!

Thanks, @stedlocks. If someone puts the work in to it either to keep or sell on that's fine by me, but yeah, I'd be a tiny bit annoyed to see it just flipped as is for the 'right' price.

6th dibs are all yours, @anidel !

Morning all. So on top of the activity here on the thread, my inbox has an interesting array of offers stopping just short of a marriage proposal.

I know it might be annoying when a clueless idiot like me turns up here not knowing the value of something and the bargain goes to the first person to spot it and apply dibs, but sometimes that's how it goes.

My father in law paid - and I paid him back - not a lot of money for this frame, a box of bits and a pair of wheels that are still happily spinning around on my Gazelle. So I'm not that bothered about making more money back. Sorry.

It is also a little more rusty than the photos show up, I promise, though yeah, maybe I overstated that.

But in the meantime, idiot or not, I don't think I could have been much clearer than

So I'll start with VintageJon via PM and work down the list if I need to.

and that's what I'm doing.

It's just a bike frame after all. There are worse things going on in the world

Hi all, well, looks like I could have priced this more aggressively! No matter. Given the level of interest and my essentially lazy nature, I'm going to say it would be good if someone could come and collect it from me in Leytonstone. So I'll start with VintageJon via PM and work down the list if I need to.

My father in law picked up a Mercian that seems to have been left in a shed (or just exposed to the elements) for a decade or two. Shame, because it looks like it was a nice example once upon a time - chromed lugs, lug lining, pantographed seat stays etc. What it is now is a very very rusty frame.

I've been told there's no way really to tell if the frame is solid under all the rust until it's been sand-blasted back to the bare metal, but it doesn't feel like it's about to crumble to dust. It's Reynolds 531 and I believe dates to 1983 because of the 83 at the end of the serial number on the BB shell.

Talking of the BB shell, it has a shimano BB that's pretty well stuck in place, and the plastic cup has also been pretty well knackered by an attempt to remove it at some stage.

It would be nice to see this frame rescued, but I've realised it's not me that's going to do it. If anyone wants to grab it and take a chance on getting it seen to, shall we say

SOLD

More pics: https://flic.kr/s/aHskuhHcMZ