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My Karakoram Elite is the bike that got me back into biking, having not ridden one since the age of 15. It's also the bike that led me to Retrobike, so quite clearly the most expensive bike I will ever buy. However, since the day I decided the paint was too tatty to keep (which was easier to...

I finally got my Tioga-hubbed wheel built for this build then realised I still hadn't started a thread for it, so here goes: The hub was kindly karma'd to me by Bart (stumpjumper1990). The slight difficulty with these hubs is that they take 15G straight-pull spokes. After a fair bit of...

My Karakoram was my first retro bike when I bought it a few years ago. It was well used and a mixture of original and replacement parts. I got it for a bargain £30-£40 on eBay. I rode it as it was for 18 months, but once I had decided it was very much a bike I liked I started collecting up...