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Steel Charlie
Picked this up a couple hours ago. Performance TR1000 3/2.5 titanium. For peanuts. Local CL bike flipper had it. Quite a nice person actually.
Probably an early one, 95-96 maybe, judging from the Shimano 600. Later ones went to 105. Looks like it's been sitting for some time but I'm sure that it will respond to some modest cleaning. I was way surprised at the really lovely welds. Since the bike retailed for near $2K in 95 I suppose that I should not have been surprised at all.
At any rate a fun project that I've been looking for a long time.
A while back I bought a '98 LS Classic frame on eBay for $400. the seller had planned to strip there paint and polish it, but lost interest mid-way through, so it's a mix of polished and raw finishes. My original intent was to build it up with an old Campag 10sp groupset I had lying around, but I went a little nuts and turned it into an S&S-coupled 12sp travel bike. It' rides beautifully - really too good to be relegated to travel only, but at least I'm not going to be riding somewhere distant and regretting the absence of a "good" bike
