I am posting some pictures of the Motobecane almost completely assembled. My daughter has the pictures of the Motobecane in it's original setup, inside her digicam, which she takes to school with her, so I can't post those yet. I should have the Cinelli bar tape on Monday and the Tires whenever they get here from ProBikeKit. As it sits with bottle cages, pedals and bike computer it was 17.4 lbs. Wow a full two pounds lighter than my TST, I am jealous. Of course, my wife wasn't too happy, so sometime next week I need to put her Cannondale up on eBay, probably my Klein also.

As I mentioned earlier assembling the bicycle actually wasn't too bad. everything seemed to be there. There were no missing parts. There were stickers all over the bike, on the head tube was a "Made in Taiwan", the seat tube has a frame size sticker, the seatpost binder had a sticker on it, the brakes had the little piece of black tape on each one, the non drive-side crank arm had an inspection sticker on the inside. I removed all of those. The cables and housing were from Jagwire and the brake cable housings are actually in two pieces with a splice under the handlebar tape. That made it easier to replace the gray housing with black housing (actually a carbon color). Adjustments needed to be made to all mechanicals, especially since I had to shorten all the cable housings. Saddle was installed after trimming the bottom of the seatpost. It was just too long. My modified bottle cages were added. They started life looking like these from Pricepoint and after a little dremeling look like what was installed on the bicycle. Each picture is a link to another higher resolution image (800x600). I will post the before pictures after she gets home from school.