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Nice bike, but the RRP of f&f is $4000 = £2500, so I would advise anyone thinking about this to take a cheap flight to the US and pick up a new one, with your choice of paint, decals, geometry, etc... Any remaining cash can be spent on donor parts, preferably bought from someone who spends more time polishing their bike than riding it, or at least cares enough to wash the bike before listing it here.

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Yes, that would do. My size too, so if I won the lottery tomorrow it would be mine.

Yes it looks really nice, but it would look so much better if those wheels were taken apart and re-laced onto GEL 330s, GP4s or whatever, with a gumwalled vittoria or veloflex.

I don't really understand why anyone would keep a bike like that NOS. I would personally keep it in my Italian villa* for riding to the coffee shop in the next village and other sunny day slow rides. I'd also have a Colnago Arabesque* as a beater bike.

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How much for the wife? Is pre-purchase inspection allowed? Post pics please.

Might take the crank and bb at the right price.

Nice. I always wanted one like that to live out my Kelly / Breukink / Rooks / Theunisse / Poppel fantasies.

Nice - great to get a full period bike, complete with nice bits like the seat post.

To me it looks like the ITM stem is not pantographed. It looks like a much later aheadset with a screenprinted logo. I guess the new owner could swap it for a matching 3t quill stem.

I think 700 is ambitious. I think you could buy similar parts for around 4-500.

Someone PMed me and offered me £60 with the stem out so I thought I'd try with a hacksaw - did 3 cuts and then it pulled out with pliers. Took maybe 45 mins. Horray!!!

So it will hopefully he will pick it up in the next few days.

Odd that they didn't paint in the engraving - I'd expect black if this were the original paint. But then the fork isn't painted in either, and that wasn't repainted, so ???

Yes. Paid and gone. I try to keep the original postin up to date.

I had a few questions on postage:

To UK:
£2.50 to £5 depending on size
Angel bars - actual price (will probably remove extensions to post)

To far away places:
Actual price + a few £s to cover trip to post office.

Most of the stuff above is still available, so let me know if you want it before I move it on slowtwitch, time trialling forum or similar.

wow, so it's proper fucked. shame.

Yes, the fork is knackered, unless you have highly advanced skills known as using a power drill. I'd bet a few people here have access to such an advanced tool and have used it to put up shelves etc ;-)

Bottom line, add £10 to cover a few larger drill bits and I'll do it myself for you.

Re. Stem issue, ages ago I cut the stem off at the top of the steerer and started to drill out the remains. It was fairly easy, but I stopped after 5 mins as I realised that a 10mm drill bit wouldn't finish the job as you need something about twice as big. So the steerer has a partly drilled lump of aluminium in it. Meant to buy a larger drill, but never got round to it.

So either you will need to spend 20 mins with a drill bit of the right size or 3000 minutes with coca cola to clear out the steerer tube if you want to use the fork again.

Cinelli Angel bars £50, including BRS200 brake levers and cables. Good condition, dusty from my shed but otherwise virtually unused.

Pictured below (items not listed were sold)

Black Profile Piggyback Bottle mount. Allows you to screw 2 bottle cages to saddle rails, plus space to store an inner tube and CO2. Boxed and unused. £10.

Profile aero bottle with quick fill and straw. Fits between tri bars. £5

Blue / purple anodised Cinelli Spinacci bars. Like new. £15

Silver welded aluminium Control tech 110mm 90 degrees A-headset stem. Fits 26mm bars and 1" headset. Very stiff. Ideal for track / fixed. Scratched. £5.

Bontrager select stem 110mm. New and unused. £5

Polar speed sensor, cadence sensor. Needs new batteries, but otherwise fine. £5 each.

Dedacciai Big Piega (middle). 31.6mm clamp 44cm edge-edge, 42cm c-c, anatomical shape, medium drop. Lightly used and logo coloured in with blue marker pen but otherwise perfect. £10

SOLD [Strike]Black Profile Tri Bars - to fit 26mm bars. Length and rotation adjustable. Pads separate in the pic, but screw onto the top of the bars. Very lightly used. £20 [/Strike]
SOLD: [Strike]Cinelli 105mm quil stem. Usual insertion marks £5 [/Strike]
SOLD: [Strike]Original Flite saddle £20. Hardly used. Leather cover is like new. Underside has a bit of mud on and clamping marks only. £20
SOLD: [Strike] Specialized Toupe Gel Saddle 143mm. Some people's arses like these a lot so I had to try it, but it wasn't for me. Almost unused. Still shiny everywhere, with card and original box £30..[/Strike]
Sold [strike] Bontrager Race bars (front). 31.6mm clamp 44cm edge-edge, 42cm c-c, anatomical shape, medium drop. Like new. £10 [/strike]
SOLD: [Strike]Bontrager Race cyclo cross bars (rear) 26mm clamp, 46cm edge-edge, shallow drop anatomical shape. Unused. £5 .[/Strike]
Shimano Carbon Road shoes with 3 velcro straps. Look and SPD drillings. Stated size 43, but more like 42 compared with current Shimano 43s. Real carbon weave sole, not injection moulded junk. Nice and stiff, only downside is that the shiny finish is peeling. But good enoug for winter / commuting. £5 [/Strike]

GONE [Strike]FREE STUFF - Wheels -
These are a pair of 36h Mavic 531 screw-on hubs (like 501s) laced to MA2 rims with ss db spokes. Supposedly 531s are spaced to 135mm, but these are 130mm (i.e. road not MTB spacing) The rims are not true, the spokes are frozen, the front hub is missing an axle cap (the black bit which touches the inside of your fork). But the hubs are both SILKY smooth and polish up nicely, so are a good candidate for a fixie rebuild.[/Strike]

My red Ribble f+f £50
Size 54cm c-c top tube and seat tube. Made of Columbus SLX. Threaded steerer. Full chrome under paint. Straight, no dents etc. Paint is knackered. Rides nicely - won a few races on it back in the day. Now ripe for re-invention as a fixie or beater bike. Also includes a FAG square taper b/b in OK condition.

Small hitch: The quill stem got stuck in the fork, so you will have to drill / saw / coca cola it out. Or you might just swap it for a carbon fork. [edit: Now fixed - see thread]

Collection from SE21 only please.

No takers?

Now reduced to £325

Now much much cheaper than buying a Ribble or even buying the bits separately!!!

Awaiting a deluge of emails ;-)

***SOLD: [strike]Boardman Comp SC Fixed Gear road / outdoor track bike - 54cm - New and unridden - Was GBP 350 ono ***

I never got round to riding this and am moving house, so it's for sale in new condition at a bargain price.

It has a really nice aluminium frame with lots of shaped tubes, nice simple paint job and good bits. Unlike many other bikes in this price range it comes with bits you don't need to swap before riding it - Continental tyres, Mavic rims, Ritchey bits etc. so no corners cut. (full spec and geometry below)

You could ride it fixed / free or road / track (outdoors) or with brakes / without... For example you could commute on it, then at the weekend you could unbolt the brakes and take a spin round Hearne Hill track.

Spec:
Frame Lightweight double butted aluminium
Fork Lightweight carbon fibre fork with alloy steerer
Headset Semi integrated cartridge headset
Spacers Full carbon 4x5mm, 1x10mm
Stem Ritchey OS 31.8mm
Handlebars Ritchey OS 31.8mm
Seatpost Ritchey 27.2mm
Saddle cboardman, Cro-Mo rails
Brakes Tektro R730
Shifters N/A
Cassette 18T fixed & 18T single freewheel
Chain Shimano 1/8”
Chainset Truvativ Elita 48T
Bottom Bracket Truvativ GXP
Rims Mavic Open Sport Black 32H
Hubs Cartridge bearings
Spokes Stainless steel double butted black
Tyres Continental Ultra Sport 700x23c
Pedals Alloy platform, toe clips & straps

**Geometry **
Size small [Halfords is mad - to anyone else this a medium] = 54cm
SizeTop Tube effective 54cm
Seat Tube (cm) 50
Head Tube (cm) 13.5
Seat Angle (deg) 74
Head Angle (deg) 72.5
Chainstay (cm) 41.3

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SOLD - post deleted

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Not Sasquatch I might add.

Still for sale after some timewasting to-ing and fro-ing. Willing to talk about serious offers. PM me please

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It does fit me. I'm selling it because I've got lots of other bikes and never got round to riding this one. All I'm saying is that they're mad to call it a Small.

SOLD

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I acquired this, but haven't got round to riding it and need to make room in my shed. By buying it from me you avoid dealing with Halfords (I could write a few pages on this but won't bore you). Anyway I've adjusted it so that it won't fall apart / kill you when you ride it, and you get it for GBP 400 instead of 500.

My own view is that it's a really nice aluminium frame with lots of shaped tubes, nice simple paint job and good bits. Unlike many other bikes in this price range it comes with tyres that cost more than 2p, mavic rims etc. As far as I could see no corners cut. Excellent VFM, even better at this price. Size 54cm, so suits approximately averagely sized blokes.

You could ride it fixed / free or road / track (outdoors) or with brakes / without... pretty much any way you like.

The catch? There is none. Well, only that you need to pick the bike up from darkest Dulwich, and that you're not taking a test ride until you pay for it as I'd rather keep it new and unridden unless you buy it. Happy to help you adjust it though so that you can ride away happy into the sunset (if you pick it up around 4pm, with lights of course)

Pictures and spec here: http://www.boardmanbikes.com/road/road_comp_sc.html

Spec also below:

Frame Lightweight double butted aluminium
Fork Lightweight carbon fibre fork with alloy steerer
Headset Semi integrated cartridge headset
Spacers Full carbon 4x5mm, 1x10mm
Stem Ritchey OS 31.8mm
Handlebars Ritchey OS 31.8mm
Seatpost Ritchey 27.2mm
Saddle cboardman, Cro-Mo rails
Brakes Tektro R730
Shifters N/A
Cassette 18T fixed & 18T single freewheel
Chain Shimano 1/8”
Chainset Truvativ Elita 48T
Bottom Bracket Truvativ GXP
Rims Mavic Open Sport Black 32H
Hubs Cartridge bearings
Spokes Stainless steel double butted black
Tyres Continental Ultra Sport 700x23c
Pedals Alloy platform, toe clips & straps

Geometry -
Size small [Halfords is mad - to anyone else this a medium] = 54cm
SizeTop Tube effective 54cm
Seat Tube (cm) 50
Head Tube (cm) 13.5
Seat Angle (deg) 74
Head Angle (deg) 72.5
Chainstay (cm) 41.3
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