New bike built. Woohoo!

[Tollers]

After collecting bits for the past few months. I finally built up the bike over the past few days. Sorry for more leopard skin chairs, but I'm pleased with myself for building my frist bike from scatch. I like the colour more now its built up with bits of black and the odd dash of red.

Haven't taken it out yet. If nice weather i'll be spending the day tomorrow tweaking the adjustments and set up.

Some tired blurry snapshots......

Test sadlle.....but noone will know when my bum's hiding it.

Bars - Maybe the white computer wasn't my greatest idea.

 

[ttcycle]

Well done on the build- hope it rides smoothly!

 

[fossyant]

Whoooooooooooooooooo

That Super Record is rubbish....I'll take it off your hands............

PS How did you get on with joining the chain....... ? KMC now do an 11 speed chain with a superlink, so gone is the need for the special campag 11 speed chain tool.

That's one nice bike...very nice indeed.

 

[fossyant]

PS is that a compact ?

Dribble...

Dribble....

 

[Tollers]

Whoooooooooooooooooo

That Super Record is rubbish....I'll take it off your hands............

PS How did you get on with joining the chain....... ? KMC now do an 11 speed chain with a superlink, so gone is the need for the special campag 11 speed chain tool.

That's one nice bike...very nice indeed.

I'm shocked at how much lighter the bike is than my Ribble....which i thought was VERY light until today

I got on very badly with fitting the chain. I used my standard lifeline chain splitter to put in the pin (only one supplied with the chain). This pin decided to break before i'd even started pushing it through, so i had to go on a hunt around bike shops to find spares. Second time round i realised that the pin went in easier from the other side of the chain, so i flipped the chain around and in it went (although my crappy lifleine chain splitter is destroyed as it was made of cheese).

I have the park tools chainpin "peener", so that bit was pretty straightforward.

If I'd known the KMC was becoming available, i'd have definitely gone for that instead! Are you sure? I read stories about it's existance, but never founf one available.

PS is that a compact ?

Dribble...

Dribble....

Yup. Compact

 

[bad boy]

That is awesome mate, you should be well pleased with yourself.

Its a great looking bike, I hope you enjoy ridding it as much as I would !!.

 

[Garz]

Great build there tollers mate, seat angle looks acute on top pic though..

 

[Tollers]

Great build there tollers mate, seat angle looks acute on top pic though..

Yup, you're right, but set-up is tomorrow. I need to shorten the seatpost too as im a midget. Last bike was a 47cm which is a wee bit too small, this is a 52cm, so i need to get the post down. Then i'm going to be playing with adjusting the mechs. The adjustment felt OK on the workstand, but im sure reality will pose it's own challenges!

 

[gaz]

beautiful, not sure that seat is at a comfortable angle though

 

[Garz]

Sounds like your the perfect contact for advice Tollers. Im a short-ass too (5ft6"), by building the bike this way did you save any compared to a complete bike of similar parts?

 

[AlanW]

Nice looking bike, but not to sure about those leopard skin seat covers though!!

What bar tape have you used just out of interest?

 

[fossyant]

OK psychology as to why Scott and Campag SR ? - I like to know this stuff, it is really interesting......... (PS SR is the best group set at the moment !!)

My reasoning for my Herety was.........

Frame - same price as a Colnago, same italian tubes..... although custom fit, but..... with an Italian Frame, no way could I fit Shimano...... (even in the late 80's....)

Dura Ace 7400 was leagues ahead of C-Record then.......so got the local bike built out of the best tubes....and didn't feel dirty with DA on it.........

 

[Tollers]

OK psychology as to why Scott and Campag SR ? - I like to know this stuff, it is really interesting......... (PS SR is the best group set at the moment !!)

My reasoning for my Herety was.........

Frame - same price as a Colnago, same italian tubes..... although custom fit, but..... with an Italian Frame, no way could I fit Shimano...... (even in the late 80's....)

Dura Ace 7400 was leagues ahead of C-Record then.......so got the local bike built out of the best tubes....and didn't feel dirty with DA on it.........

Frame was a bargain. I really wanted a Wilier Izoard frame, but they are never really discounted much, even in sales. The Scott frames are unbelievably light so, when i came accross it, i couldn't resist. I really wanted to keep it 100% Italian, and must admit i'm a little upset to have anything american on it, let alone the frame! Ah well, the other bike is still a thoroughbred

As for SR......I "only" wanted Record, but looking around for January deals I was able to find some bargains. Every component from the gruppo was ordered separately and came in about the same best price i'd seen for Record. The perfect excuse to bling it up. I was also a bit sad that i hadn't got anything fun at xmas, so wanted to treat myself.

If I could have got DI2 at this price, i would have made the switch, but thats about double the cost.

Nice looking bike, but not to sure about those leopard skin seat covers though!!

What bar tape have you used just out of interest?

Fizik, with Botranger gel things on the tops and drops.

Sounds like your the perfect contact for advice Tollers. Im a short-ass too (5ft6"), by building the bike this way did you save any compared to a complete bike of similar parts?

Well, i only ordered parts when i saw a bargain. It's hard to say if i saved money, especially as there have been lots of 2009 bargain bikes for the last month.

Ultimately, yes. I think i did save money. The bottom line for the entire build was still scandalous (around 2k), but i can't think of any bike on sale at the moment that has a similar level spec for less than 2.5k.

More important. She's mine.....my own sweat, tears and frustration (no blood though entire process

p.s This bike is WAY to good for me......and has almost bankrupt me, but......as the loreal ads say...."i'm worth it"

 

[Garz]

More important. She's mine.....my own sweat, tears and frustration (no blood though entire process

Thats the best part of it though, you put it together and theres none out there like it as you picked the components to the tee. Congrats mate it looks ace!

 

[accountantpete]

Looks fantastic Tollers - now no taking it out until the summer!