Members' bikes

[border-rider]

My Orbit. 

Just converted to Fixed

Looking very, very nice

[rogerzilla]

My Orbit. 

Just converted to Fixed

It actually looks better.  Stick it on the bathroom scales - it should be about 17.5lb with pedals.

[Hot Flatus]

I've seen that bike before!

I saw someone with a kick like Chris Hoy attempt to attack on a gentle hill, only to pull over with a broken bottom bracket after 50 yards  

[ed_o_brain]

Before:


After:



Subtle tweaks have turned this into a tarmac eater. Better tyres. Better brake blocks. Narrower lower bars/bar ends.

[Sigurd Mudtracker]

I suspect that despite the Muddy Fox sticker and the artfully blacked-out down-tube there lies a Cannondale frame at the heart of that bike... or am I wrong?

[ed_o_brain]

I suspect that despite the Muddy Fox sticker and the artfully blacked-out down-tube there lies a Cannondale frame at the heart of that bike... or am I wrong?

best aluminium frame I've ever had

[alan]

I suspect that despite the Muddy Fox sticker and the artfully blacked-out down-tube there lies a Cannondale frame at the heart of that bike... or am I wrong?

Immediatley I saw it I thought it was an M500.We can't both be wrong

[LEE]

I love old MTB conversions, the frame geometry just suits a chunky road-based make-over.

Yours has a rather 'saintly' look about it

[Viv]

Love the halo pics - that's just perfect!

[Frenchie]

My Orbit. 

Just converted to Fixed

Looking very, very nice

If it is anything like my Track Orbit, it'll be stiff and lovely! Nice bike.

[Fixedwheelnut]

 Plus 1 for the Orbit looking good


and Lee  you beat me to the Saint quote   

[GruB]

I have finally got the right bottle cages.  They are made by Giant but are called Enigma bottle cages.  How perfect is that - in titanium 

See ? 

[αdαmsκι]

I have finally got the right bottle cages.  They are made by Giant but are called Enigma bottle cages.  How perfect is that - in titanium 

See ? 

Aren't the cages upside down?

[GruB]

I have finally got the right bottle cages.  They are made by Giant but are called Enigma bottle cages.  How perfect is that - in titanium 

See ? 

Aren't the cages upside down?

No, clever they are.  When I first picked them up in the LBS I was holding them up the wrong way and he politely said - they go the other way    I have not made that mistake since I did it with my Specialized bottle cage all those years ago.  I was not sure even still, so I have just popped out to check with a bottle to hand.
No, clever they are 

[gordon taylor]

This is my Cyclescheme bike, a Ridgeback Flight 04 with Alfine hub gear and carbon fork for £900. Supplied by Longstaffs and upgraded a little by me with stuff in the shed: Brooks Swift saddle, Oval seat-tube, Hope stem. Plus some new mudguards, ATAC pedals, grips and a propstand.
The retail cost was £997 including the pedals and mudguards, the cost to me will be about £620.  





Oh, I changed the chain tensioner from a huge Shimano affair to a neater Surly Singulator.

First impressions are very good. The gearchange is amazing and the bike is silent. It might take me a while to get used to the straight bars and hydraulic brakes, but I'm looking forward to that.

[GruB]

Nice commuting colours too as that will hide the muck well. 

[gordon taylor]

Nice commuting colours too as that will hide the muck well. 

Thanks. I'll be taking those stickers off the wheelrims ASAP - they make the bike look too flashy for me.

[ed_o_brain]

That is a nice bike. I really like it.
Needs some nice bar ends though.

[oncemore]

After a whole 12 months of ownership (a LONG time for me amd a bike!) and always thinking that it COULD be the best bike I've had (out of some 50?), the simple addition of Nitto racks front and rear means that now it IS!

On a stretch of the Erewash Canal that I'd never visited before this a.m. my Kili Comp (probably!). I'd have saved '000s.....

[oncemore]

"... a Ridgeback Flight 04 with Alfine hub gear and carbon fork for £900. "

That is very nice - but why oh why do they spoil the ship... or in this case a 900 quid bike for want of drop outs that don't call for a chain tensioner?

[kyuss]

Gorgeous. I'd love a disk equipped, hub geared, tarmac eater.

[gordon taylor]

"... a Ridgeback Flight 04 with Alfine hub gear and carbon fork for £900. "

That is very nice - but why oh why do they spoil the ship... or in this case a 900 quid bike for want of drop outs that don't call for a chain tensioner?

They use the same frame for all the Flight range, unfortunately - I presume for economic reasons. The Giant and Merida equivalents have eccentric BBs and I was sorely tempted by both of those too. However, I have a vague long term plan to take the hub off this bike at some point and build it into a heavy steel tourer... so this frame will run sweetly with a derailleur. I agonised for months over the compromises!

[Adam]

I have finally got the right bottle cages.  They are made by Giant but are called Enigma bottle cages.  How perfect is that - in titanium 

See ? 

Aren't the cages upside down?

Well, he is Australian after all........


They do look a bit odd though!!

[Bledlow]

My Enigma Etape - unnamed.





Beautiful ride. Light as a 9kg feather, goes like the clappers, exactly where you point it.

Crap saddle, though. That'll change.

[Jurek]

Lovely lookin' bike Bledlow.
Wishing you many (as I'm sure they will be) happy miles.
Straight-up question....
Are you able to operate the levers when you're on the drops?
Or do you not go there......