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04-02-14, 01:29 PM
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2011 Carbon Synapse Frame, Ultegra 6800 11 Speed, SLK Compact Crank, Mavic Aksium wheels (I know I cheaped the wheels) This could probably fall in the budget category as well. Total build cost was $1350. Which will leave me some time to save and buy some nicer wheels. Rides like a dream.
Try a green and a white bottle cage. Just kidding, i like but agree with others about the tape, it's just a shade or so off.
04-02-14, 07:10 PM
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My power came back on 30 min. before I needed to be at work... but yeah, just a quick ms paint hack job ... so you get an idea, of what the others where/are saying.
04-02-14, 07:39 PM
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Bianchi - More than 125 years of history, international leadership Ph. +39.0363.3161
04-02-14, 07:46 PM
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My fizik green bar tape is a spot on match but it almost never comes out in pictures. I think I want to tone down the green on my Supersix when I need to change, maybe go back to stock white.
04-02-14, 08:03 PM
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Um... I'm just a consumer ... but, here you go :
Bianchi - More than 125 years of history, international leadership Ph. +39.0363.3161
Bianchi - More than 125 years of history, international leadership Ph. +39.0363.3161
04-02-14, 09:28 PM
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04-02-14, 09:36 PM
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Hmm. I'm a photog so I know colors can absorb and reflect light differently and look different in a photo than they do to the naked eye (have you ever seen a clothed eye, just wondering?) but ARE YOU SUUUUUURE? Have you asked someone else if the colors are 'a spot on match', cuz the photo looks hideous. I can't see anything else because of that green on the bars… Ask someone else to look, and then if they agree, get back to us.
04-03-14, 01:36 AM
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The old track, hand built korean frame with nagasawa lugs and hodgepodge build.
The old road rig. Mostly Italian, minus the fork/ cages/ wheels. Not staged properly
Made the leap to carbon, maybe I'll post it here if it looks good when I'm finished.
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04-03-14, 02:02 AM
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Changed to Ultegra everything plus DA shifters
04-03-14, 02:15 AM
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04-03-14, 06:17 AM
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Decided that rather than just try and swap out my 105 shifters with a newer set to route cable into bar which turns out does need the newer brakes due to the pull, I may as well use this opportunity to go full ultegra 6800, cosmetically though, here's what the new tape, lower stem and matching cages will look like (via sloppy photoshop). Hope this will be an improvement, but I'm on the fence about removing wheel decals. Bike should be back in my hands by Saturday so I can post a proper shot...
04-03-14, 06:39 AM
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I like it with the wheel stickers myself!! )
04-03-14, 07:00 AM
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I'd vote no wheel stickers. Those stickers make the bike to "loud" and they take away from the frame.
04-03-14, 07:05 AM
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04-03-14, 07:12 AM
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Im leaning that way too, maybe its a little loud but considering where I started 
. I suppose if I want stickers, I could always replace with blacked out lettering.
Also, if I can't sell my 105 gruppo, may keep to put on a cyclocross frame, still have the old bar and the aksium wheels from this bike, hmm another bike for my collection, n+1 right. A giant TCX frame can be had pretty cheap or even a Ridley or caadx something like that. I feel a next project coming on.
. I suppose if I want stickers, I could always replace with blacked out lettering.Also, if I can't sell my 105 gruppo, may keep to put on a cyclocross frame, still have the old bar and the aksium wheels from this bike, hmm another bike for my collection, n+1 right. A giant TCX frame can be had pretty cheap or even a Ridley or caadx something like that. I feel a next project coming on.
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04-03-14, 07:31 AM
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Good point... 
I think it looks good but prefer no decals on the wheels. Everyone knows they're mavics from the carbon weave. Of course, ghost/black stickers would be pretty sweet as well.
Decided that rather than just try and swap out my 105 shifters with a newer set to route cable into bar which turns out does need the newer brakes due to the pull, I may as well use this opportunity to go full ultegra 6800, cosmetically though, here's what the new tape, lower stem and matching cages will look like (via sloppy photoshop). Hope this will be an improvement, but I'm on the fence about removing wheel decals. Bike should be back in my hands by Saturday so I can post a proper shot...
04-03-14, 09:14 AM
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04-03-14, 10:52 AM
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Hmm. I'm a photog so I know colors can absorb and reflect light differently and look different in a photo than they do to the naked eye (have you ever seen a clothed eye, just wondering?) but ARE YOU SUUUUUURE? Have you asked someone else if the colors are 'a spot on match', cuz the photo looks hideous. I can't see anything else because of that green on the bars… Ask someone else to look, and then if they agree, get back to us.
04-03-14, 11:06 AM
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I look back at those pics and thank god I upgraded a few things since then... god was that crank ugly.
04-03-14, 11:17 AM
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