British Eagle Pro-Carbon

Finally finished putting everything back together again this weekend. Tuning and adjusting of gears and brakes done and the bike is finished. Took it for a spin this morning and it feels great, very responsive, much tighter and more nimble than it was before - I'm sure its just because of me tightening and greasing everything more than ever before!!

Im really happy with it, ended up ordering the decals from a printers in Farringdon near where I work, but they couldn't do them, so I am still on the hunt for them. Otherwise its all finished!!
 

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Nearly there...that sadlle needs to go back a tad and the bottom part of the bars needs to be horizontal to the groung.

De riguer pour le tour cyclist!
 
Bit harsh on the bar front IMHO :)

It's not always possible to get the lower part of the bars horizontal to the ground as it depends on the make of bar.

In a perfect world the top part of the bar would mirror the angle of the stem and the lower part be parallel with the ground.... Road stems were always a little less angled than track stems so from a cosmetic point of view the road set usually had the bars angled to the road surface....

When I built bikes in the 70's I would usually follow the angle of the stem as if I didn't it looked like the bars were hanging off the stem downward rather than a projection of the stem....

Does that make sense ??

Shaun
 
Lovely bike, I've got a BE catalogue but it must be after the date of this as it doesn't appear in there.

Fit the bars as YOU find them comfortable - within reason though. They look OK to me, having them parallel to the ground may give you sore/cramped hands - and it still looks wrong. Mind you, didn't bother Sean Yates much, he rode with them with the grips pointing up a bit :shock:
 
Old Ned":20rc11z1 said:
Lovely bike, I've got a BE catalogue but it must be after the date of this as it doesn't appear in there.

Fit the bars as YOU find them comfortable - within reason though. They look OK to me, having them parallel to the ground may give you sore/cramped hands - and it still looks wrong. Mind you, didn't bother Sean Yates much, he rode with them with the grips pointing up a bit :shock:
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True, but he had all sorts of weird elements in his position to compensate for (I believe) his twisted body (no offence to Mr. Yates).

I think having the bottom of the 'bars parallel to the ground doesn't look quite right, I like a slight tilt myself.

Mark.
 
Thanks for the comments.

I'm planning on going out on Saturday so will be able to gauge what feels comfortable after a bit of a ride, so we shall see!
 
I missed the post clean up pictures. Lovely looking bike - I really like the graphics, and I'm so chuffed you kept it badged as a British Eagle. It is the anti-Specialized Allez - you can be sure you'll never see wnother one.

How are you getting on with it? :D
 
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