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Thought I'd share a few pics of a build I just finished this evening. I've been collecting bits from here now for a couple of weeks.
I just bought a new Lapierre Spicy but needed something else more suitable for commuting and evenings round a couple of localish loops, keeping the Spicy for trail centre, uplift and alps trips.
This is it in offroad guise but I've another set of wheels with semi-slicks and a road cassette for commuting.
Only thing I need is a shorter stem as the 90mm is too long for me with the 18" frame, the top tube is well long on these frames!
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Always fancied building up a ridgid bike again too and the offshoot bonus is it's nice and light with the carbon fork for hauling up 4 flights of stairs to my flat 🙂
Anyway, not sure why but thought I'd share it lol
Pick away! 🙂
Looks nice. Get some black grips.
It's great! A *proper* bike 🙂
very nice indeed.just don't loose it when it snows 😉
Yep, like that. Just need to get rid of the gears... 😉
Hehe I had thought about single-speeding it but that would resign it purely to commuting as im not fit enough at the moment to take a SS offroad I don't think.
The grips actually look good in the flesh but I had to tweak the pics a bit in photoshop as the camera's crap which makes them look too bright.
I do actually have a very nice mint set of SID race there sat ready to go on if I dont get on with the carbon forks, will need to see how my wrists hold up after a proper ride tomorrow evening after work 🙂
Cheers for the comments.
The change grip colour to black comment is not the way the grips look now, but how they look after a ride or two.
Oh, nice build too 🙂
Should you need to shift the sids if you stick with rigid.... Get in touch 🙂
Will do 🙂
You should of gone for the [b]WHITE[/b] Brothers rock solid rigids.
And, the typeface on the Dry Riser Outlet is too condensed.
There's always one lol
If you want to swap the 90 stem for a 70mm one let us know
I have a Specalized one on the full suss that is a tad too short
Needs white outers. 8.5/10
[url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=23398 ]white outer[/url]
the brake/shifter levers look MASSIVE 😯
the brake/shifter levers look MASSIVE
They do don't they lol!
They actually work very well and at £60 for the shifters/levers, calipers, pads and all mounting adaptors/bolts etc I tink they were hard to beat value wise.
But yeah, not the prettiest :p
I'd have some black tyre paint on them white tyre lines.
It looks like that car of "Grease".
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Well you're entitled to your opinion I guess 😉
I think they look rather fetching 🙂