What road bike do you have?
06-12-13, 08:55 AM
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Finished building this bike recently. Most of the pieces were bought used on CL/Ebay except for the Fizik saddle, Chinese bottle cage and FSA omega compact handle bar. Rest are: Shimano 600 tri-color drivetrain. Easton EA50 front wheel and DT Swiss RR585 wired powertap rear. Thinking about getting a new pair of black sidewall white thread tires and a nashbar threaded carbon fork.
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Kilo TTs make for great beater bikes. I've been commuting to and from class on mine in all four seasons for the past 1.5 years and I still love it to this very day.
Feel free to browse through this thread for some inspiration (take these set-ups with a grain of salt, though, if you think some of them look a little jackass)!
I really like my 1980 Moto Grand Jubilee but this bike really seems to push all the right buttons. I realize it's not in the same league but tell me what you think. I was considering putting some straight bars to use as my around town bike, and at $389 it seems like a steel, pun intended. Of course it would be a larger size to fit me like my Moto.
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Martin
Feel free to browse through this thread for some inspiration (take these set-ups with a grain of salt, though, if you think some of them look a little jackass)!
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06-13-13, 10:25 AM
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06-14-13, 01:16 PM
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06-14-13, 06:14 PM
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06-15-13, 07:40 PM
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Nothing fancy and in stock form now, except for 6700 clipless pedals. I did swap out the bar tape today from white to black. Gives it a different look.
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Just purchased a CAAD 8 , love everything except the tires and rims... and i hate the fact the chainring/crank looks like plastic , ugh >
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06-16-13, 07:13 AM
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Here is my fully restored and retro-rodded RED. I picked up the frame, and Dura Ace headset in 2007 for 100$'s from the original owner and he filled me in on some info about the bike and builders. As has been stated the RED are Columbus SL with Campy drop outs and Cinelli BB shell... the have a "criterium" geometry popular with American racing at the time it was built. He bought it new and unbuilt in 1986 from a shop in Southern California... they told him it was a 1983. They also told him that both the Red's and the Blue's had the same quicker crit geometry as the red's. I have been slowly building her up since... trying to put together the ideal set up for me. I have had many many bikes made from evey kind of material and for me this thing is perfect... I went with ultegra, and dura ace hubs on velocity rims, selle SMP saddle, 105 pedals, TTT Mutant stem (NOS), Thomson post, Origin8 shallow drop bar, Cinelli gel tape, Fizik gel pads on bars, and I kept the Dura Ace HS (since it is fine). I love this bike. So this is what one of these with all new stuff looks like.
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06-16-13, 08:24 AM
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