Jonny69
Senior Retro Guru
I've posted about this bike before but it's entering a new phase of its life so I thought it deserved a new thread. I've recently got into more triathlons and I've got a number of local TTs near where I've moved to, so I thought I'd give it a go next season with a 'proper' bike instead of my 531 Raleigh which I normally compete on.
History of this frame is I bought it off Old Ned a couple of years ago. I ran it in a number of SS and fixed gear guises. It's a bit small for me with drop bars but great with bullhorns and it's a good length for me with aero bars. Not sure what steel it is; it's incredibly thin wall tubes and too light to be 531, but it doesn't match up to any of the Columbus tubesets. Round track forks at the front as per the era. I took it out of daily duty in favour of a slightly larger frame with drop bars and kept this upstairs for maybe a TT build one day. This is my mockup so far:
So the spirit of the build is an amateur homebuilt pre- low-pro steel bike from the early 1990s. The sort of thing an enthusiastic TT rider might have rolled out at the weekend to compete on, but I'm intending to roll it out 25 years later and crush some modern competition on it
The disc wheel is in fact a HED despite the Corima stickers and is in pretty good condition with very few dents. Front wheel is a Pianni aero rim on a Mavic hub with 24 bladed stainless spokes. Tan wall tubulars front and back. I'm going to use the 52/42 Shimano Biopace cranks off my Raleigh and 6 gears at the back with indexed band-on downtube shifters. Saddle is a well used San Marco Rolls 'Non Slip System' from the era. Bars are 3TTT Moscow bars that a colleague kindly donated to the project and the brakes are a mix of Shimano SLR calipers with Exage levers so it should stop exceedingly well. Aero bars are going to be the only modern touch. The early ones aren't great for getting into a modern low aero tuck position so I'm modifying a set of Profile clones to mimic a modern position but with the old 'look'.
I think it's going to be really fast and I'm looking forward to slaying a lot of expensive carbon TT bikes next season
History of this frame is I bought it off Old Ned a couple of years ago. I ran it in a number of SS and fixed gear guises. It's a bit small for me with drop bars but great with bullhorns and it's a good length for me with aero bars. Not sure what steel it is; it's incredibly thin wall tubes and too light to be 531, but it doesn't match up to any of the Columbus tubesets. Round track forks at the front as per the era. I took it out of daily duty in favour of a slightly larger frame with drop bars and kept this upstairs for maybe a TT build one day. This is my mockup so far:
So the spirit of the build is an amateur homebuilt pre- low-pro steel bike from the early 1990s. The sort of thing an enthusiastic TT rider might have rolled out at the weekend to compete on, but I'm intending to roll it out 25 years later and crush some modern competition on it
The disc wheel is in fact a HED despite the Corima stickers and is in pretty good condition with very few dents. Front wheel is a Pianni aero rim on a Mavic hub with 24 bladed stainless spokes. Tan wall tubulars front and back. I'm going to use the 52/42 Shimano Biopace cranks off my Raleigh and 6 gears at the back with indexed band-on downtube shifters. Saddle is a well used San Marco Rolls 'Non Slip System' from the era. Bars are 3TTT Moscow bars that a colleague kindly donated to the project and the brakes are a mix of Shimano SLR calipers with Exage levers so it should stop exceedingly well. Aero bars are going to be the only modern touch. The early ones aren't great for getting into a modern low aero tuck position so I'm modifying a set of Profile clones to mimic a modern position but with the old 'look'.
I think it's going to be really fast and I'm looking forward to slaying a lot of expensive carbon TT bikes next season
