My new Explosif...

[ringo]

Picked this up after Mullinino kindly posted it up in the market watch forum on here...

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=163581&highlight=explosif

Arrived yesterday and I am absolutely stunned by how great it is! Never ridden one before, but I now understand what all the fuss is about...

Really good nick and was built and owned by the previous owner from new. I'm going to leave it as is, but may add a set of Middleburns (that has a matching gold spider...). Should regress to canti's to...

Bike currently weighs 11.5 kilos...

Will need to thin the fleet a bit... any one want a nice LTS1 frame or a lovely RTS1 frame!

Anyway, enough of my yacking... heres the pics!

 

[lewis1641]

stunning!

 

[lewis1641]

i think that is the widest pace bar i have ever seen!

 

[Major22]

That's really nice. And yes, they ride great Is it a 19" or a 20"?

 

[coomber]

Jealous! That is really nice.

Not sure about the saddle though, get a flite on there.

 

[renaldo]

That is lovely. Agree it would be even better with Middleburns and a flite, and deserves better brakes too, but seriously nice

 

[ringo]

Thanks guys...points noted about the brakes/saddle etc!

What about a Flite carbon?


Dave

Bars are 595mm!

Frame measures 19 inches from centre of BB to top of seat tube.

 

[ringo]

Oh and it's got a great optical illusion (which can be seen in one of the pics) the gold bar reflects on the crown and makes that look gold!

 

[Anthony]

Although the saddle is modern, it does at least have the right shape rails for that type of post. In my experience, Flites don't fit properly with those posts (the 1994 O-Beam was very similar) because the rails are too close to the body of the saddle. This is the shape of rails that the O-Beam was designed for.

 

[rojo]

Awesome bargain