Members' bikes

[gordon taylor]

Very nicely done, Gordy   Well thought out. Nitto rack works well on the canti mounts, very neat. Expensive lighting setup for a station bike - security QR skewers might be worth considering?

Thanks. the bike looks really good in a quaint way.

I wondered long and hard about using my once-expensive components. In the end I just decided that these things were better off in daily use than getting scratched in a dusty box. Much of the transmission has been to Barcelona and Niagara Falls... the racks have been up the Pacific Highway and round the North Sea amongst other places, and it is good to see them passed on, as it were.

The only thing I'd be annoyed about losing to a station thief is the dynohub. I've fitted allen key skewers and all the bolt heads are filled with plastic metal stuff. A thief is unlikely to consider a tiny ladies shopper as an attractive target, so I've just got my fingers crossed really.

[Tail End Charlie]

Excellent build up, Gordy, does you proud. Bikes like this have a bit of soul in them. I hope your daughter appreciates.
I must say you have a fantastic spares box for it to contain both a dynohub and a Solidlights !!!

[GruB]

Gordy,
I bet you are well satisfied with that.  I trust she will have a decent lock for the stay at the station too?

[clifftaylor]

Yep, 6 months of riding the Pompino probably make the Cannondale extra special too!!

Which version do you have Frenchie?? I'm seriously considering a Cannondale caad9 Tiagra as the 'ospital has restarted Bike2work, and at 1000 of your English pounds there's a definite lack of bikes that don't appear to have been designed by a teenage boy. And my Ribble is, to be honest, an Ugly Thing, but does have 105 bits which could be swapped over.

[Frenchie]

Yep, 6 months of riding the Pompino probably make the Cannondale extra special too!!

Which version do you have Frenchie?? I'm seriously considering a Cannondale caad9 Tiagra as the 'ospital has restarted Bike2work, and at 1000 of your English pounds there's a definite lack of bikes that don't appear to have been designed by a teenage boy. And my Ribble is, to be honest, an Ugly Thing, but does have 105 bits which could be swapped over.

I bought the 105. Evans gave me 10% off due to my membership cards and the 0% APR 12-month payment deal. A really, really nice package.

[rdaviesb]

IFrom the pile of bits in the garage: Marathon+ tyres, Open Sport rims, SON dynohub, Nitto racks F&R, Dura Ace rear mech, Ultegra cranks, BB and 9-speed cassette. V brakes, chain, pedals, saddle, seatpost, Solidlight front, Cateye rear, mudguards, basket!

That's a wonderful pile of spares! Dura ace on a bike with a basket is a fantastic combination. It's a really, really nice bike. 

[токамак]

It's still a work in progress, but should be completed this week or next - just need to swap components from current bike (Chorus 2008 goupset) and set up. First big TT event for me is in 3 weeks time! Hoping this machine will help me improve on last years time, if it doesn't, something somewhere has gone seriously wrong!

[bobb]

I quite like your wallpaper.

[gordon taylor]

I have another cute little wicker basket that would fit nicely on to those sticky out bits.

Handy for nipping to the shops?

 

[clarion]

Could you turn the volume doen on the wheels, please?

btw, are they Zipps?  I can't really tell...

[citoyen]

Excellent build up, Gordy, does you proud.

+1

Daughter is very lucky. Hope she appreciates what a well set-up machine she has there.

d.

[jogler]

Well it certainly looks ZoomZoom Tokamak
To improve on previous times can I suggest thst it would be beneficial to fit some pedals
well somebody had to say it innit?

& the £ of those wheels could have bought you a c....oh,never no mind

[eck]

Very nice, токамак.
But is it any faster than that Dave Yates you bought last summer?  

[токамак]

Very nice, токамак.
But is it any faster than that Dave Yates you bought last summer? 

You know, I was actually thinking this morning that if the weather is crappy for any of the club evening tens this year, I'll just take the Dave Yates rather than get this one mucky. At least I'd register a time and get some points!

[Sergeant Pluck]

It's still a work in progress

Very cool 

[bobb]

To improve on previous times can I suggest thst it would be beneficial to fit some pedals

That bad boy looks so fast I don't think he actually needs pedals!!

[Paul D]

It's still a work in progress, but should be completed this week or next - just need to swap components from current bike (Chorus 2008 goupset) and set up. First big TT event for me is in 3 weeks time! Hoping this machine will help me improve on last years time, if it doesn't, something somewhere has gone seriously wrong!

Those wheels must've been quite an investment! I've always thought as you that a bike / parts that nice are only for the good weather days, in which case I would've been tempted to go for the very deep (100mm?) rim on the front and a disc on the back. Hell, a second hand HED disc probably would've been cheaper than one of those Zipps!

[MSeries]

To improve on previous times can I suggest thst it would be beneficial to fit some pedals

That bad boy looks so fast I don't think he actually needs pedals!!

He's entering the British Hobby Horse Championships

[Ray 6701]

Very nice Tokamak    Bradley Wiggins was dq'd for using a zipp 1080 as a front wheel.

[TimO]

Well it certainly looks ZoomZoom Tokamak
To improve on previous times can I suggest thst it would be beneficial to fit some pedals
well somebody had to say it innit?

Actually what I expected someone to say was:

"Chains a bit... erm... missing..."

[jogler]

you just did

[Wobbly John]

He's entering the British Hobby Horse Championships

You think it doesn't happen?




 

(The one in the deerstalker lives in our village)

[rogerzilla]

Cool mags.

[Greenbank]

Now I know where Obree got his inspiration for the Superman position.

[Moloko]

Wot no chain tattoos?