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[RobMac]

The guy you bought the saddle from is sound as a £
Im hoping the seat post is the right size BTW I'd have liked to have
check the bike when it arrived, manufacturers do little things change
the spec on frames different batches, changes year to year.

 

[lesscott]

Robmac - Are you on here 24hrs a day ? LOL

Everything i have ordered will be perfect. After you chipped in with some initial info to my stupid questions i found a link on the Orange Bikes website, giving all the measurements for each year range of P7 bikes.

For the one i have bought (year 2000) it's a 29.6 seat tube. The seat post is 27.2 plus shim. The seat post clamp is 31.8.

So i am sorted.

Here's what i have got so far:-
A pair of crud catchers (black)
A shim (shiny silver)

Here's what i await:-
A quick release seat post clamp (shiny silver)
A saddle (black)
A seat post (shiny silver)

Here's whats going back for a refund:-
A shitty helmet with minimal pads, and the padlock and lights that i bought with it at a bundle price.

A guy at my work was at the Edinburgh Bike Coop today. He came back with some stuff at decent prices. Big sale on there. I might take a gander.

Les

 

[RobMac]

Les I dont have a TV, I dont drink, I dont socialise, me and my 'ex girlfriend split amicably, at the moment I just work and ride my bikes but I have a flat mate 'Alf' Alfie black cross lab. And the thing in front of you is my only contact with the outside world (sad ah!)
And Im nearing the end of a two week holiday.



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[The Ken]

Les, Robmac isn't actually a real person he is a 24 hour call centre in india staffed by children who are paid in bike bits.

 

[mikee]

yeah , the chuck norris helpline

 

[RobMac]

 

[zigzag]

Wheeled the big.eck Trek 100,000,000 out into the sunlight after flinging some parts at it this week...

Had a bit of fun with the headset cups, which seemed a tad slack in the tube... we'll see how the Araldite holds.

Wasn't able to use the original lovely red S500 rims, couldn't untaco the front, so went with a set of cheap WH-R550 wheels off ebay instead. Not as light as they look though (825g F / 1065g R).

Cheap Massi carbon fork off ebay too (364g versus the ridiculous 964g steel Trek original). I'll be hiding the 'M' and the 'i' on the forks too...

Planet X Ti skewers (£14.99 at the mo, and only 44g in total versus 124g for the Shimano originals). Also picked up one of their 9g seatclamps for £4, probably since it was 31.6 instead of 31.8 - seems to fit OK, we'll see how it lasts.

I picked up the Sante brakes and cranks before Christmas, just because they were white and reasonably cheap. Peeled the knackered stickers off an old red MTB Kore stem, and using a cheapy red ano 27.2 seatpost that I bought by mistake last year.

Looking like final weight with pedals will be 20-20.5 lbs. Which is not bad, considering the frame & BB weighs 2264g on its own. Plenty of room for further weight weenieing, but this is a budget build, so not likely to happen anytime soon.

Anyway, nearly there, a couple of more things to buy and it'll be done and ready for some springtime miles.

 

[Radoslaw]

Looking good ZZ, what size is it? Still on small-ish side judging by stem?
364 g that's light even for carbon fork, good buy.

 

[RobMac]

ZZ I had to turn the brightness down on my monitor when I saw yer bike

I keep thinking I can hear the 'Star spangled banner' when its on screen

 

[zigzag]

56cm frame Radek, so still on the small side for me, but I got on OK with Kaiser's Allez and I think that was a 54 - I'll make it fit.

Fork was a good deal, £27.50 and it has carbon steerer - I think the 1" size plus no-name brand put people off?

Rob, I'm the same, I come across all Yankee-doodle-dandee when I see it! Original looked even better with red rims and blue tyres.