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Professey Chin · 09-06-2015 10:49am

First road bike in ....well.....ever. Lets see how long until she trys to kill me :pac:

RobFowl · 09-06-2015 1:51pm

ROK ON wrote: »

Cantalach
That bike is the most erotic thing I have seen in years.
Immense.

You haven't seen me in white shorts then ðŸ˜Ž

ROK ON · 09-06-2015 5:53pm

RobFowl wrote: »

You haven't seen me in white shorts then ðŸ˜Ž

... And we might just leave it that way, if it's not too much trouble!

stecleary · 11-06-2015 5:56pm

Professey Chin wrote: »

First road bike in ....well.....ever. Lets see how long until she trys to kill me :pac:

Please take those tyres off and fix them

not yet · 11-06-2015 7:36pm

Professey Chin wrote: »

First road bike in ....well.....ever. Lets see how long until she trys to kill me :pac:

Get clips on pedals on that straight away...

lennymc · 12-06-2015 1:24pm

fat bloke · 12-06-2015 1:46pm

I was with you for about 2 seconds Lenny, but my appreciation of it appears to have a 2 second half life. The more I look at it, the less I like it...

As is usually the case, I can't actually verbalise why exactly though.

magicbastarder · 12-06-2015 2:08pm

the thin tubes and bulky looking wheels don't sit naturally together.

lennymc · 12-06-2015 2:11pm

I have a similar frame at home that I really am going to restore this year, and was looking for ideas. I liked the look of this one. You don't see many with the curved fork. Personally, I wouldn't have that saddle or the saddle bag, but, i think it's one of the best neo/retro/modern bikes I have seen. Maybe a set of mavic open pro CD rims rather than the carbon.

lennymc · 12-06-2015 2:33pm

or maybe something like this

or this

niceonetom · 12-06-2015 2:41pm

lennymc wrote: »

Maybe a set of mavic open pro CD rims rather than the carbon.

Look at H+Son TB14 rims. Very low profile so they look like Nemesis tubs or the like. They'd be what I'd want on an older frame. Maybe with gumwalls.

OleRodrigo · 12-06-2015 3:34pm

lethal dose · 12-06-2015 5:27pm

Whilst on the Italian side of things

Lumen · 12-06-2015 5:44pm

lethal dose wrote: »

Whilst on the Italian side of things

1975 called, it wants its frameset designs back.

http://www.classicrendezvous.com/USA/Graftek.htm

fat bloke · 12-06-2015 6:15pm

@ Lennymc I think it's the droopy bars and stem and the old saddles as well on all of those that detract, for me. I wonder would a modern cockpit and saddle better help to marry old and new?