Cyclocross - Show us your cross bike...

Here's my ride. It's currently in commuter mode but it can be fitted with Kenda Kwick 700x35's in a jiffy. Fetish Cycles Ankh, 105's all around, Avid Shorty 6 brakes, Sug 48/36 Crank, Eggbeaters, Ultegra 12-27 9-speed, Fetish Carbon Seatpost, Kestral Carbon Bars 44cm with Ritchey Pro 120 stem, Cane Creek S2 headset, borrowed Bianchi Carbon Fork, Velocity Arrowheads wrapped with Mich Carbons 700x23, and WTB Saddle. Very fast and very lightweight with potential for more weight loss. Belly included.

Damn, that is a nice ride, Very stealth indeed.

Frame/fork: Kelly Luscious X Trutemper S3 / Kelly 29er Disc
Headset: King Dreadset
Stem: Ritchey Pro Road
Bars: Ritchey Biomax 42cm
Seatpost: Thompson Elite
Saddle: Flite Ti
BB: Dura-Ace
Cranks: Dura Ace Triple 7703
Rear Wheel: King ISO Disc / Mavic Open Pro / 36 x 15 g straight 3 cross / Brass Nipples
Front Wheel: King ISO Disc / Mavic Open Pro / 32 x 15 g straight 3 cross / Brass Nipples
Brakes: Avid BB7 Road Disc
Shifters: Dura-Ace 7703
Rear Der: Dura-Ace 7800
Front Der: Dura-Ace 7703
Pedals: Shimano 959
Cassette: Dura-Ace 9 speed
Tires: Michelin Jet S
Built by Bobcat Bicycles, Salinas, CA
22.6 lbs with pedals

It was really a crap shoot when I was searching for a quality steel frame, but I got lucky as it seems Chris Kelly knows a thing or two about building bikes. The bike rides so well I thought the tires were low, even though I had checked them just minutes earlier. I don't know how he did it, but the feel of the bike is truly unique, as if there really was a suspension hidden in there somewhere. Cracks and sharp edges pass by with a muted thump reminiscent of a BMW with new shocks, the same imperfections that knock my hands off the bars on my steel frame no-suspension mtb with fatty slicks.

Yet when I put the power down, the bike responds well and has handling to match. Truly amazing, and perfect for the 'city beater' role the bike will play. I'm no expert, but production frames I've ridden can't even come close the experience this bike offers.

steel is real

I just won this off of ebay...hope to see it soon! rock lobster in scuba yellow. ;)

My one

great looking ride! I like the way the stem, post and cranks match!

excuse me asking. is it russian? is it in cyrillic? does it read kosmo??

excuse me asking. is it russian? is it in cyrillic? does it read kosmo??
yes, you're right. it's russian titanium.

I see wheels and jackstands! What else happens in that garage?

Here is my Bianchi San Jose. All stock for now save the rear blinky.





flickr photo set. (http://flickr.com/photos/rotenberg/sets/72057594070167117/)

Very nice! Do you have a specs list?

Very nice! Do you have a specs list?
who me?

just got this off ebay...rock lobster alum team bike. rides great! but the saddle does not interface well with my rear-end. it has record hubs with tubular rims, very nice but I'm thinking of swaping them onto one of my road bikes. also working on putting some riv-nuts since the team bikes were not built with waterbottle mounts. :)

who me?
Yep :)

Yep :)

oh, its all stock for now: http://bianchiusa.com/06_san_jose.html

on my list to replace: saddle (i like brooks), maybe the bars, i still haven't decided, and pedals, also not sure though i'm leaning towards getting some crank brothers mallets.

i also just ordered some IRO hubs, gonna probably just relace the stock wheels/tires to them so i can have a flip/flop in the rear, i miss riding fixed. if i feel like spending money, a chris king headset is probably in the near future.

Here is my "new" 2001 Lemond Poprad:

oh, its all stock for now: http://bianchiusa.com/06_san_jose.html

on my list to replace: saddle (i like brooks), maybe the bars, i still haven't decided, and pedals, also not sure though i'm leaning towards getting some crank brothers mallets.

i also just ordered some IRO hubs, gonna probably just relace the stock wheels/tires to them so i can have a flip/flop in the rear, i miss riding fixed. if i feel like spending money, a chris king headset is probably in the near future.

Thanks Josh! I asked because from a distance your break levers look at bit like carbon non-Ergopower Campa's (from their TT Record group) and the cranks like 2003 carbon Record :)

it's done! it's done! it's finally done!







haven't weighed it with tyres, but sans tyres it's 21 lbs - so it should be 25-26 all in.

spec:

Nashbar: frame, carbon fork, headset spacers, and stem. Chris King: headset. Shimano: UN-72 bottom bracket, XTR M-952 rear derailer, 12-25 HG-70 cassette, HG-93 chain. FSA: 48/38 cyclocross crank. Campagnolo: Centaur front derailer, Centaur brifters and cableset. Avid: Road Disc brakes. Easton: EA30 seat post. Selle Italia: Fokus saddle. Specialized: bottle cage (16 years old!). Ritchey: pedals. Continental: Twister (non-folding) tyres. Salsa: 46 cm Bell Lap handlebars.

wheelset: custom built at my LBS with Deore disc hubs, Sun CR-18 rims and straight-gague DT Swiss spokes.

other: Cinelli tape, generic seat quick release, Jtek Shiftmate and Kenda tubes.

haven't had a chance for a real ride yet, just tooled around the yard, but this is going to be fun!

Here is my new-to-me 10/01 Gunnar Crosshairs, purchased it about a month ago. The components were from an '05/'06 Specialized Tricross. I've upgraded a few things and made some other changes.





Specs:
Frame: 10/01 Gunnar Crosshairs
Fork: Gunnar Reynolds 531
Headset: Cane Creek S2
Stem: Specialized 3D forged
Handlebars: Salsa Bell Lap Cyclo-cross
Brakes: Tektro Oryx, cantilever
Front Derailleur: Shimano Sora
Rear Derailleur: Shimano 105
Shift Levers: Shimano 105, 8 speed, STI
Cassette: Shimano HG50, 12-25t
Chain: Shimano HG50, 8 speed
Crankset: RPM (forged)
Chainrings: Double: 48x34t
Bottom Bracket: Shimano UN-25, 68mm shell, 113mm spindle
Pedals: Shimano 747
Rims: Salsa Delgado Cross (32h)
Hubs: Shimano Deore XT (32h)
Spokes/Nipples: DT Swiss Double-Butted, Black & Silver / Black Brass
Front Tires: Ritchey SpeedMax Pro 32mm / Ritchey SpeedMax Comp 35mm
Rear Tire: Ritchey SpeedMax Pro 30mm
Saddle: Selle Italia XO Gel
Seat Post: Thompson Elite, 27.2mm

My current rig. Pics will follow after the weekend...

Frame: Kinesis Extralight cyclocross ; 56 cm ; black anodized
Fork: Advanced full carbon ; 1 1/8”
Headset: Chris King Ahead ; 1 1/8” ; black
Stem: Syntace F99 ; 120 mm ; 6° ; Ø 26.0
Handlebar: Ritchey WCS ; 460 mm ; Ø 26.0 ; shortened
Shifters: Campagnolo Chorus Ergopower 10-speed / Campagnolo Record
Ribbon: BBB black ; carbon look
Cables: Campagnolo(black)
Front derailleur: -
Rear derailleur: Campagnolo Chorus 10-speed (short cage)
Chain: Campagnolo C-10
Cassette: Campagnolo Record 12-25
Crankset: Storck Powerarms; 172.5 mm w/Spooky carbon guards, Stronglight CT2 42 t.
Pedals: Time Atac XS titanium/carbon
Bottom bracket: Tune AC38, 113 mm
Brakes: Spooky carbon cantilevers
Hubs: Lightweight w/Tune skewers (black)
Spokes: Lightweight 20/20
Rims: Lightweight
Tubes: Tufo, 30 mm
Seatpost: Thomson Elite; 240 mm ; Ø 27.2 mm ; black
Saddle: Selle Italia Flite (stripped)

Weights in at 7215 grams

Timo,

That bike is sick... It hurts my feelings (knowing that it is not and will never be mine), but it lets me know real people can build amazing bikes.

Cheers!!!

Quick question though... What's your favorite color?

wow, that thing is incredible.

my '04 JTS bought new last May...what a great year it's been. added the cane creek levers and Salsa Bell Laps in 46cm....





RJ
in Maine

'06 Poprad frame (59cm) w/ 04' Poprad fork
(my '04 frame cracked, but was replaced under warranty :) )

Hello everyone!



My budget CC-bike, Rossano Cross. A Finnish brand, frame designed and parts assembled in Finland but the frame is constructed somewhere in Asia.. As they tend to be nowadays.

Some parts:

Frame: 6000 series aluminum triple-butted 54c
Fork: CroMo triple-butted
Shifters: Shimano Tiagra STI
+Tektro RX 2.0 add-on brake levers
Stem: DeDa Logo
Handlebars: DeDa Piega
Front Derailleur: Shimano Tiagra
Rear Derailleur: Shimano 105 9 spd
Hubs: Shimano 105
Brakes: Tektro Oryx
Rims: Alex DH22
Spokes: Alpina F1
Tires: Schwalbe Marathon 700x32
Crankset: RPM 50-36 ISIS
BB: TH 9915 ISIS
Saddle: San Marco Blaze
Pedals: Shimano PD-M505/540
Headset: TH18A
Computer: CatEye Mity 8 (bought afterwards)

Weight: around 10.4kg

[QUuh.. timo.. why didn't you just go with record? don't tell me it was the price...

kelly...

This is my new cross ride. Its replaced an aging and heavy Soul Monk.
Its sold as Frame/Fork only, so the build took a little while to assemble.

Frame - TCX (Medium)
Fork - Carbon
Wheelset - Bontrager Race Lite (stolen from my Lemond Victoire)
Tires- cheap Conti Steel bead.
tubes- cheap and black.
Cassette- 12-25 Ultegra
Seat - WTB Titanium (comfy and reasonably lite, will likely be upgraded)
Post- Bontrager Race X Lite (again off of Lemond)
Stem - Bontrager Race xxx lite (from Klein Palomino XXX) 105mm
Bar - Bontrager Race Lite 46cm (had a Salsa Bell Lap 46 flaring to 52...the pure 46 seems narrow by comparison)
Headset - Giant Integrated
Spacers - Bontrager Carbon
Shifter/brakes - 105 black
front D - 105 braze on bottom pull (upgrading to a clamp top pull ultegra or da soon)..the pulley system looks like a nightmare.
Rear - Ultegra long cage (i occassionally run a 12-34 MTB cassette for really hilly races/rides)
Cranks - Profile Design Carbon 175mm 135bcd
Chainrings - Stronglight 39/ Stronglight 51 (will be running single chainring config for races)
Chain - Sram (to be able to take it apart easily...and frequently
Brakes - Shimano BR 550's. Seem fine so far.
Cables- Bontrager cable set, nice stuff. first time i've used it.
Tape - Silva Carbon.
Pedals - Eggbeater Stainless steel

currently it's doing road duty but i'll put michelin Jets on it for cross.

thanks for looking.
Here's a phew photos.




this is it before i had what i needed to build it up:


midway built.

more photos (http://paddlerx.smugmug.com/gallery/1351760)

Only one ride so far, carbon fork provides a smoother ride, bike is much more responsive to rider effort than the old Soul was. Decrease in weight is perceptable.

cheers.

[QUuh.. timo.. why didn't you just go with record? don't tell me it was the price...
Actually I fear the carbon lower arm of a Record rear derailleur is to fulnerable for cross so I use a Chorus one.

My first road/? bike. put the Seca slicks on for speed in the city. swapped the horrible, taint-torturing stock saddle for a comfy Specialized BG. the Arkel Tailrider is in the mail.must get the pack off of the back as it gets hotter here in phoenix. now which kind of rack? it has eyelets.

wow, post confusion. It's a 57cm 2006 Felt F1x cyclocross and i suck at uploading photos.

Man, that Kelly looks HOT! It even radiates some kind of orange glow....

or perhaps I am just partial coz I have a Kelly too? ;-)

Man, that Kelly looks HOT! It even radiates some kind of orange glow....

or perhaps I am just partial coz I have a Kelly too? ;-)


it radiates somethin, but I am partial because it is mine and my last name is Kelley...

Apologies to the purists (for now, when fall comes it'll be pure). Here's my shiny new kona jake the snake, '05 frame that I bought and built up myself (with a generous amount of help from a good friend). It pretty much kicks ass all over town and is even fun on the road.

I'm gonna get rid of these dumb bar ends though when I start working after this semester ends and get some STI levers.

I givel. Everyone is saying, here's mine, here's mine. I don't see in most threads any links to pics. What am I donig wrong?
Caruso

A few months ago I sent Doug Curtiss (Curtlo Cycles) a deposit and then waited. After we spoke about what I wanted he got to work and I eventually got a tag from the post office saying there was a parcel waiting for me.

I built up the bike with Ritchey WCS stem, bars and seat post. Shimano Cantilever brakes, Regal Saddle, Centaur 10 compact crank, Front and rear ders, Shifters. American Classic 10 speed cassette. Shimano Ultegra hubs laced 3x to Mavic MA3 rims which I had in the garage ( still in the wrappers). In the pictures I have Michelin tires mounted, they have since been removed and replaced with Vredestein Campo Cross. I love the Campo Cross tire, and so it stand to reason that Vredestein would dis-continue it, I have no idea why they have done that.

The frame and fork ( a custom steel fork built by Doug) are True Temper OX Platinum, a nice light steel frameset.

The bike rides like a dream.

Not enough... or any!... X01's on here.

Here's mine, set up recently for some crazy fly by the seat of your pants road riding. Just about everything is stock (105's, SRAM 12-26 cassette, bontrager crank, yada, yada)... put on Ritchey DS Pro Z wheels and michelin carbon tires for the street. Normally it's got the bontrager select wheels and jones CX tires (which kick ass) when going off road (seated to the left in the pic):


Ok! Here's mine!

Nice!!!!!!

kelly...



What tires are on that Kelly??

I know the question wasn't for me, but I have the same 280gram 700x31
Panaracer Cross Blaster tires on one of my wheel sets.

BTW. Nice cross bike you got there! I dig the color scheme

I know the question wasn't for me, but I have the same 280gram 700x31
Panaracer Cross Blaster tires on one of my wheel sets.

BTW. Nice cross bike you got there! I dig the color scheme

Thank you.

I really like the Vredestein Campo Cross which will run at both low pressure and high pressure, came in 28 and 32.

It seems that they have stopped making it and the repalcement, the Premiato is rated for max pressure of 60 pounds.

I am on the hunt for a new all purpose cross tire in the 28/30 size that will take higher pressure (90 to 95 pds).

Not easy to find so looking for info.

I cannot understand why they dq'd the Campo Cross.

The Ritchey Speedmax pro's are avilable in 28, 30, and 32mm, and can be inflated to 90lbs.

I know the question wasn't for me, but I have the same 280gram 700x31
Panaracer Cross Blaster tires on one of my wheel sets.

BTW. Nice cross bike you got there! I dig the color scheme
correct...

The Frankencross mutant bike which will one day kill me:

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Here's my Waterford X-11 I picked up off Craigslist a few months ago. Came with full Dura Ace 9, Paul's Neo Retro, Open Pro/Ultegra wheels/Ritchey WCS CX tires. I replaced the Paul's with Tektros because there was never enough clearance on this bike to install them correctly so they deliver full braking power. Tektros work perfectly even though they don't do the bike justice! I use it for commuting and & have an extra set of wheels (both pics below) for riding road with my wife. Came with lots of blue as you can see and is growing on me so I decided to keep the theme with the blue road tires.

Cross dress:


Road dress:

Just 'coz there aren't enough Voodoos here.
2000 Limba, Kinesis USA built Scandium with Wound-Up carbon fork and Shimano bar end shifters because I'm tired of replacing expensive STI stuff. Michelin mudders on Ultegra/MA3s for the dirt and Michelin Hi-Lite Prestige tires on Spinergy wheels for road riding.

I'm glad I just built this up, becuase my carbon LOOK bike was stolen yesterday!

Dura-ace shifters, Ultegra front and rear, Elita cranks, burly commuting wheels/tires, and a buttload of headset spacers. I rode it into work this morning and loved it. It's so nice not having to worry about every pothole or crack in the road.

Here are some pictures of my new Lemond Poprad...... Triffid

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=12124954&uid=594075