Ridley Crossbow/X-Bow x2

[MartinB123]

Saw this on ebay last week and took a punt. The rear mech hanger is threaded so either need to try and tap the thread or fit a 'dropout saver' which is on order.

The donor bike, well shifters and mechs is a Boardman with Sram 10 speed and some light-ish ritchey wheels which I got for a song as it was cracked.

Will hopefully make some £ back on selling a few bits with a view to replacing my Bianchi road bike commuter over time and having a rather practical 1x10 gearing with a nice wide range at the back. Very much a work in progress currently and mocked a few bits on this afternoon. I think I'll go with road gearing first then get bigger cassette, chainring and suitable mech once I'm happy with the bike.

 

[MartinB123]

Well as it happened I discovered an old frameset of mine at my folks and it had a dropout saver neatly wedged in the rear hanger thread so that was promptly removed!

Drilled out the hanger this evening and fitted the saver, the mech fitted perfectly - will get pics in due course.

Looking forward to building up now

 

[MartinB123]

Not very good pics but there's not much to see really.

new threadless headset is on order and tyres/tubes mounted last night - hopefully should be roadworhy over the weekend!

 

[MartinB123]

May as well keep the thread title the same as I got another yesterday

I think the yellow/black one may be mothballed for a while as I'm nicking the components for this one.

It's a 2008 Crosssbow, this time with sensible things like bottle mounts, British threaded BB, front mech cable pulley to take a bottom-pull mech and a 1-1/8 fork, which the other one had none of!

Very tired but solid and prime for a strip down and rebuild with the 10s SRAM I have.

Pics are from the state it arrived in!

 

[ChromeChainstay]

great find

 

[Dogboy]

Love me some 10sp sram

 

[MartinB123]

So I finished the build early last week and been commuting on it since. Two sets of wheels now - one with Veloflex tyres and TPU tubes for road and one with shwalbe G-ones for off road.

Hoping to get out on the ridgeway at the weekend

 

[MartinB123]

Managed to get up onto the Ridgeway - really didn't know what to expect. It was amazing... also right on my doorstep pretty much so I will definitely be back. The Ridley performed impeccibly over the 30 miles

 

[Mike Muz]

Nice bike my friend, I feel we will need a cyclocross sub section at this rate

 

[MartinB123]

Nice bike my friend, I feel we will need a cyclocross sub section at this rate

Ha! Yes we do