Giant compact road circa 1998/2000

[cyberknight]

I have started a new thread for this for listing modifications and ongoing work
I was gifted this bike and after some digging turns out its a Gaint compact road , early mike burrows design with an interesting stem
mirage 9x 3 shifters
veloce brakes
veloce triple

 

[cyberknight]

Quill stem replaced with an adapter, found out the bars were bent so binned them.
replacement stem added
Stripped the groupset and wheels and replaced with tiagra 4600 and another giant wheel set
105 shifters ready to be installed

 

[biggs682]

Have you tried it for size yet ?

 

[cyberknight]

Have you tried it for size yet ?

yes , it fits measured the important bits when i 1st got it. seat height set for me with 170 mm cranks , set back might need tweaking but its not far off i think ( 4 cm from bb to saddle tip is my norm) ,,i did check again and it needed 5 mm further back

 

[cyberknight]

Lbs pulled the old BB for £10 so next up is to install something.i do have a square taper chainset but not sure whether to use that or something a bit more blingy

 

[biggs682]

Why blingy when simple works would be my vote.

 

[vickster]

@cyberknight were you looking for a 40cm bar?
https://www.planetx.co.uk/products/selcof-zeta-v2-alloy-road-bar

 

[cyberknight]

@cyberknight were you looking for a 40cm bar?
https://www.planetx.co.uk/products/selcof-zeta-v2-alloy-road-bar

thanks i picked up a second hand one off ebay for £3.50

 

[cyberknight]

 

[cyberknight]

Bars and shifters installed, after the photo I also put the BB in and the chainset plus chain

 

[cyberknight]

a bit of time where i felt not knackered , on lates so its hard not to vegetate

Installed the brake cables and set up the pads , why didnt i check that the brake cable kit has 2 different lengths of cable for front and rear as i used the rear for the front assuming they would be the same length , what a muppet ! luckily i had a spare cable .
Rear wheel has a rubbing/ grinding noise from the hub so i will change wheels as they are just something i had spare that happened to have giant branding on .

 

[cyberknight]

All done
kept the 8 speed chainset for now till the 10 speed turns up and i think the noise from the wheel is brake rub as the rear needs truing but its rideable so i will try that 1st as although i have better wheels keeping giant branded seems right .
front and rear shifters fully new cable install inners and outers which was a learning moment as the cable entry into the shifter was in a different place to normal and the LH shifter is missing the cover that the hole is supposed to be in so i had to thread it directly into the mechanism .
handlebar tape , just cheap stuff i had knocking about .
Next job will be to source a micro adjust seatpost as mentioned i can never get the single bolt kind spot on level ,
Need to add pedals