Hello All
I bought this off a fellow retrobiker. I love it and I love riding it, but I don't ride it very often. Having got married about 18 months ago and moved into a house with my wife and two children I don't have a lot of room to store many bikes any more in a way that makes easy to get at and ride. So l'm reluctantly putting this up for sale.
It was sold to me as one of Paolo Bettini's team bikes from 2004 when he rode for Quickstep and when he won the Olympic road race gold. The seller provided no proof of this and neither can I.
This bike rides beautifully. Whilst lots of manufacturers in the early 2000s were building the stiffest lightest carbon frames they could Time realised early on the importance of engineering in some compliance. The result is a bike that has a good balance of stiffness and acceleration but doesn't pound you to bits.
The frame has an effective horizontal top tube of 520mm. As pictured the distance from the centre of the bb to the top of the saddle is 735mm. The frame is in very good condition. There are some tiny chips and scratches and a few crude blobs of touch up paint (not by me), but generally it looks very good. For me this is the classic livery for a Time bike with small carbon weave showing through.
I am happy to sell in two variations:
1
Frame, fork, headset, Ulteam stem (a model year later than the frame), Time Spirit seatpost and Tune seat clamp for £995 UK posted NOW SOLD
2
The whole package as pictured with Campagnolo Super Record 11 speed groupset (minus front mech and chainrings), Chorus 12-32 cassette, Syntace carbon bar (minus pedals) £1550 UK posted.
Any questions, just ask.
Rich
I bought this off a fellow retrobiker. I love it and I love riding it, but I don't ride it very often. Having got married about 18 months ago and moved into a house with my wife and two children I don't have a lot of room to store many bikes any more in a way that makes easy to get at and ride. So l'm reluctantly putting this up for sale.
It was sold to me as one of Paolo Bettini's team bikes from 2004 when he rode for Quickstep and when he won the Olympic road race gold. The seller provided no proof of this and neither can I.
This bike rides beautifully. Whilst lots of manufacturers in the early 2000s were building the stiffest lightest carbon frames they could Time realised early on the importance of engineering in some compliance. The result is a bike that has a good balance of stiffness and acceleration but doesn't pound you to bits.
The frame has an effective horizontal top tube of 520mm. As pictured the distance from the centre of the bb to the top of the saddle is 735mm. The frame is in very good condition. There are some tiny chips and scratches and a few crude blobs of touch up paint (not by me), but generally it looks very good. For me this is the classic livery for a Time bike with small carbon weave showing through.
I am happy to sell in two variations:
1
Frame, fork, headset, Ulteam stem (a model year later than the frame), Time Spirit seatpost and Tune seat clamp for £995 UK posted NOW SOLD
2
The whole package as pictured with Campagnolo Super Record 11 speed groupset (minus front mech and chainrings), Chorus 12-32 cassette, Syntace carbon bar (minus pedals) £1550 UK posted.
Any questions, just ask.
Rich
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