Anyone else just assemble a load of bits?

[3wheeler7]

Hi
Put this together from parts hanging around the garage:
Unknown MTB alloy frame
Unknown alloy road forks (with titanium dropouts?)
Mavic SUP road wheels
Marin Ovation chainset
I don't really know what you'd call it but it rode very well on the Cinder Path from Whitby to Scarborough and back last summer and attracted several compliments!
Does anyone else get fed up of seeing components laying about and then have an urge to cobble them together?
Is it a Retrobike - it looks a bit like one.

Regards
Tony

 

[ElCani]

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I like that! I recently did something similar with a Cannondale M500 frame I had (originally bought on here). Put this together and gave it to a bike-less friend:

 

[3wheeler7]

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Very nice - there's something satisfying about giving dormant parts a new lease of life if it's done tastefully.
Regards
Tony

 

[allenh]

I have a habit of accumulating piles of bits so I'm always trying to assemble them together as complete bikes and I've done more than a few, the most recent being these two which were a bit more work admittedly than just assembling the bits, but were at their core just piles of bits that came together into bikes.

An old Raleigh Sirocco

And the bike that became the paint your wagon special

 

[3wheeler7]

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Good jobs those!
It's nice to put some individuality into a bike rather than worrying about originality and trying to find those elusive bits.

Regards
Tony

 

[MartinB123]

Knocked this together from random bits last weekend - had the frame a few years and the forks were in the cupboard, spare Ultegra headset was fitted along with spare Nitto bars and stem. Just need to fit a brake

 

[The History Man]

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Don’t get me started

 

[legrandefromage]

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Don’t get me started

Battery flat?

Anyway, 1980's wes Mason rolled in glitter

 

[The History Man]

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Regularly

 

[ElCani]

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Just noticed mine is in no way a road bike...