Recent content by peetee

Seller is a friend of mine and a thoroughly decent bloke. Postage can be arranged at cost https://www.facebook.com/share/jr1mRNARMo6SCnyM/?mibextid=79PoIi

larger than the standard road size of 22.2 but it’s back with its owner so I can’t easily measure it.

panic over - got one.😁

You’re right, of course. My bike projects are taking a back seat to fixing other people’s bikes (my job) and building a new workshop. The latter is pretty needy as l’m working in a fully loaded 8x8 shed - and it’s murder!

Yes please. Pm incoming

And here they are, all together. One day I might get one of them complete enough to be ridden!

I’ve always been in to classic British steel road bikes. It took me a while to register Ellis Briggs on my radar. It was a frame bought on this very forum that switched me on. I’m eternally grateful to whoever it was who allowed me to buy it. Sorry, I can’t remember, fellow Retrobiker. Several...

If it is a Technotrat it is not as well finished as the one I had and certain details such as the squared-off stay ends are quite different. With a 26.8 seat tube it’s not going to be an expensive bike, relatively speaking, and I’d expect that from a outsourced company. Nevertheless , my...

Postage is free, are the bars n stem free too?

I craved Campagnolo when I first started cycling and my best bike was covered in pre-index Campagnolo Record kit. Later on I loved the look of early Campagnolo Index groupsets. Elegant and classy IMO. I bought a 90’s Veloche groupset but I couldn’t get in with the ergonomics if the shifting...

My 1996 ish (confirmation/correction appreciated) Cannondale R500 triple. Bought two years ago from Face-ache Marketplace. It’s in spotless, as-new condition. Whoever owned it before didn’t get round to riding it more than a couple of yards. I did have an issue with a sticky shifter but that’s...

I’ve used it with Tiagra 4600 ten speed with no issues. That iteration of Tiagra was compatible with all the other 10 speed road systems of the time (105/Ultegra/Dura-Ace) as long as you used an double or triple mech as the shifters dictated. As it happens, at the rear you could swap in 7,8 or 9...

For what it’s worth, if you want your cake and eat it, in other words have your 9 or 10 speed Shimano shifters (but not including Tiagra 4700) and have unconventional chainring sizes, just substitute the front mech for a Campag 9 speed triple.

It’s mainly to do with the design of the front mech. From 9 speed (or thereabouts) the mechs have shift-assisting bulges on the inner plate that are exactly shaped to match the height of a specific tooth-count middle ring. Use a different ring and the bulge ain’t in the right place so you have...