Chris620gsi
Dirt Disciple
Hi,
I am a newbie to this site and have just posted details of my MTB's over in that section and now for the road section
Before I start, it seems all my pics are too large to attach. Any assistance/guidance would be most helpful.
First my history...
I began riding a racer in 1984 when I was 15 as a way of keeping fit whilst my tennis double partner recovered from snapping his achiles tending. It was a 10 speed Peugot made from 103 Carbolite. This was soon stolen and so to continue my laps around Richmond Park I purchased a second hand Claud Butler made from Reynolds 531c. I had this for a year then bought a Vitus 979 frame from my LBS (Holdsworth Cycles in Putney) and built it up with a mixture of then current Shimano 600 & 105. Unfortunately a combination of the frame being slightly too big for me and flexing too much as I always pushed a big gear I swapped the frame with a friend for a correct sized Rossin SL frame. Now at work in 1988 when I was 19 I then built the 'last racer I'll ever own' and my current pride and joy.
She is a Chas Roberts racer custom built for me from Columbus SLX. She is 75 degree parallel and has double bottle cage mounts, internal top tube cable routing, fastback seat stays, Cineli form shoulders and Cinelli Supercorsa cast bottom bracket with Campag vertical dropouts. When she was new, she was hot pink with fully chromed forks and rear triangle.
Component wise she is still almost original with Shimano Dura-Ace 8 speed hubs with Mavic Open 4 CD Rims, uniglide cassette & chain, front and rear mechs, downtube shifters and headset. Campag Delta Record sorted the rest, such as 53-42 crankset, bottom bracket, aero seat post and the lovely series 1 Delta brakes. Cinelli bar and a Cinelli Record stem with white tape and a White Regal Girardi saddle finish her off.
There is nothing like a custom made bike. She was built just for me (including the extreme frame angle) and I will never part with her.
My winter ride is a 2012 Raleigh Airlite 300 modified with 105 brifters to hide the gear cables and Shimano r501 30mm deep rim wheels.
I don't mind getting this one dirty, lol.
As I say, any help in showing me how to compress my pic files will be most appreciated.
Chris
I am a newbie to this site and have just posted details of my MTB's over in that section and now for the road section
Before I start, it seems all my pics are too large to attach. Any assistance/guidance would be most helpful.
First my history...
I began riding a racer in 1984 when I was 15 as a way of keeping fit whilst my tennis double partner recovered from snapping his achiles tending. It was a 10 speed Peugot made from 103 Carbolite. This was soon stolen and so to continue my laps around Richmond Park I purchased a second hand Claud Butler made from Reynolds 531c. I had this for a year then bought a Vitus 979 frame from my LBS (Holdsworth Cycles in Putney) and built it up with a mixture of then current Shimano 600 & 105. Unfortunately a combination of the frame being slightly too big for me and flexing too much as I always pushed a big gear I swapped the frame with a friend for a correct sized Rossin SL frame. Now at work in 1988 when I was 19 I then built the 'last racer I'll ever own' and my current pride and joy.
She is a Chas Roberts racer custom built for me from Columbus SLX. She is 75 degree parallel and has double bottle cage mounts, internal top tube cable routing, fastback seat stays, Cineli form shoulders and Cinelli Supercorsa cast bottom bracket with Campag vertical dropouts. When she was new, she was hot pink with fully chromed forks and rear triangle.
Component wise she is still almost original with Shimano Dura-Ace 8 speed hubs with Mavic Open 4 CD Rims, uniglide cassette & chain, front and rear mechs, downtube shifters and headset. Campag Delta Record sorted the rest, such as 53-42 crankset, bottom bracket, aero seat post and the lovely series 1 Delta brakes. Cinelli bar and a Cinelli Record stem with white tape and a White Regal Girardi saddle finish her off.
There is nothing like a custom made bike. She was built just for me (including the extreme frame angle) and I will never part with her.
My winter ride is a 2012 Raleigh Airlite 300 modified with 105 brifters to hide the gear cables and Shimano r501 30mm deep rim wheels.
I don't mind getting this one dirty, lol.
As I say, any help in showing me how to compress my pic files will be most appreciated.
Chris
