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Location: Lake Geneva, WI
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Originally Posted by
h2oxtc
Thanks for sharing the photos - great job with the silver touches. I was similarly leaning to a silver groupset and decided on black in the end. I bought a red headset, and will have other small bits of red here and there. I'm hoping that it will be enough and not too much, and can always tweak things as I go. Are those Schwalbe Marathon tires? And what size are they?
These are Vittoria Randonneur Hyper (AKA Vittoria Voyager Hyper) in the 700x40 size. I also have Marathon Supreme on another bike, but like the supple ride and better rolling speed of the Vittoria. Both tires are very tough, with no flats in 1000 miles.
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