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Hi all,

Bike is no longer available

Price lowered from 975, tall people

Here's the measurements per jammy's request:

Seat Tube C-T
63 cm (to virtual line drawn from top of top tube)
65 cm (to top of seat collar)

Head Tube
Overall Length: 19.6 cm
gap between bottom of top tube & top of downtube: 16.5

Also, for reference I'm about 6'5'' with an inseam of about 88 cm / 34.5 inches, bike is photographed with seat set appropriately for my height

Will do -I am away until Tuesday evening so it'll be a couple days, I'll provide the measurements once I'm back.

Hey tall people,

I'm selling my IF Planet Cross, sized 62 cm x 62 cm c-c. I had it built when I was doing a lot of racing & did a handful of races on it one season, but then I stopped racing & for the intervening 10 years it has mainly sat collecting dust. I built it up again a few years ago with some of my old road parts & have ridden it a bit, but if I'm doing a road ride it's not the right bike, and for the city I've got the fixed, so you get the picture...

Steel frame & fork, Paul's neo-retro cantis, Dura Ace parts (with XTR bottom bracket, so that the spacing will work), Thompson post, Selle Italia Flite, no pedals. Some chain slap & a few other chips to paint. Needs new brake pads & cables, plus hubs should be overhauled, spokes are 15-16 double butted & I'm too heavy for that now so the rear wheel has popped a couple spokes, and the tapers / octolink for the right side crankarm are harshed (it is fine for the road, but if you raced or rode it off road it'd probably loosen up). 180 mm cranks, 44 cm c-c deep drop bars, Shown with vittoria dry condition tyres, also comes with vittoria mud tyres. Also, currently set up with road gearing (54/39 & 12-25), but I'll throw in a 48t chainring & a 12-27 cassette so you can switch it up to cross gearing.

What am I forgetting? Oh yeah, it has a Salsa stem (Petaluma made, if you're into that), Stronglight headset. It is 1" quill type, which seemed like a good idea at the time. Needs new bar tape. I was doing a bunch of track racing when this was built so it is made to stand up to a large strong rider. I don't know what it weighs.

I have intermittent internet access at the moment, so I'll try & respond as swiftly as possible but there may be a bit of a lag so apologies in advance.

Cash for pickup only, located in N8.

£800 ORO

1st to taxo & 2nd to cauchi8, will update thread if bike becomes available again.

As shown in the image. Frame is cracked around the lower lug in the head tube so it is scrap, otherwise the parts shown all seem to work (or they worked before the frame cracked). There is a 1/8 chain, fork with something around 280 mm steer tube (can't remember), UN 51 bb, 170 mm POS suguino crank & 46t 3/8" chainring, center pull brakes, decent SKS fenders, Kalloy post (26.8? -don't recall).

You come and take the whole thing and I am happy to clear out a bit of storage room space. Pickup only, crouch end area (N8). Send a PM to get details for pickup. Apologies in advance if I am slow in responding (limited internet access for a few days).

moving this to the thread for parts & such, since the frame itself is useless

This is available again, pickup did not happen. Lemme know if you want it, fenders alone are worth the effort.

Indeed, the bumps are welcome as is the great information that Erik and Rik have posted.

I've kept this thing around with the idea of dialing it in with components that are of the era, but it hasn't been enough of a priority so it has just been sitting there. If someone is interested in taking it on as a project, we could discuss splitting out the frame, fork, headset, shift levers & bottom bracket, but I'd rather sell the whole thing (and also when trying to price it I didn't assign much value to the wheels, bars, stem, other non-vintage bits).

Claimed by dehumber, will bump the post if it becomes available again

Re-posting this in parts & misc., since the frame itself is scrap.

As in the image. Frame is cracked around the lower lug in the head tube, otherwise the parts shown all seem to work (or they worked when the frame cracked). There is a 1/8 chain, fork with something like 280 mm steer tube (can't remember), UN 51 bb, 170 mm POS suguino crank & 46t 3/8" chainring, center pull brakes, decent fenders, Kalloy post (26.8? -don't recall).

You come and take the whole thing and I am happy to clear out a bit of storage room space. Pickup only, crouch end area (N8). Dibs & PM to confirm pickup.

Apologies in advance if I am slow in responding (I likely will be).

£375 ONO, cash for pickup in London (N8)

As you can see, it’s a mix of appropriate vintage bits and some not. This is my wife’s soon to be former bike, which she bought in the States from a friend who runs a shop; we are looking to trade clutter for cash. Original Vitus fork was smashed by the airline, so replaced with a Sake fork that is a decent match but heavier than the original. Probably needs new brake pads, cable & housing (it has sat mostly unridden since 2002). Let me know if questions –I’ll do my best to respond promptly but apologies in advance if there is a delay.

The details:
59 seat tube / 57 top tube (c-c)
Sake fork, random cheap roller bearing headset
Suberbe F&R mech
Campy NR clamp-on shift levers
Superbe brake levers (hoods need replacement)
Royal Gran Compe calipers (needs new brake pads)
Stronglight sealed bb
Shimano 600 EX crankset (Triple ring model fc-6206, but without the inner ring)
Wheels: 32 spoke rear Deore LX hub 7spd, 36 spoke XT front
Basic bar & stem, hybrid / cushy Planet Bike saddle

Might have something that would work, from a large frame old motobecane. What is the head tube length of your frame?

Record looks to be about 1994

If it is due to corrosion, a few drops of WD-40 into the threads & letting it sit overnight might do it. Caveat: if you are running sew-ups don't do this, you'll need to cut the spoke & peel off the tire, etc.

If you're running a splined crank & have recently removed it, check for bits that may have cracked off the crankarm (where the crankarm interfaces with the splines on the bb axle) that may be sitting in there & causing the crankarm to creak / loosen. Have seen this happen when cranks have been removed & re-installed repeatedly.