Pace 200f1

[Radar]

Now I love Paces and I'm quite happy to see strange adaptations - most memorably was a 200 built up as a cross bike. 'Not Pace forks' do make me shudder but hey each to his or her own, but there comes a time in one's life when enough is enough. Time to draw a line in the sand etc

This is just plain wrong and a sin against, well, everything

Mutton dressed as lamb!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/One-Off-Pace-RC-c ... K_Bikes_GL

 

[gump]

hmm

not sure 100mm zoccys are the best for it!!! Chopper stylee

 

[goodas12003]

I thought this was kinda alright. I was goin to go and have a look at it. Is there anyone else who thinks it's crap??? It's expensive and don't wana waste my money! Ta Dave

 

[Radar]

at the end of the day it's a bike. You ride it. Forks are really bad - too tall will put the whole ride out of kilter. That's the only really really bad bit about it. The rest is just very very poor taste.
All it is missing is tassels on the bar grips.

It's an old bike which was designed for not a lot of boing in its forks/rigid forks. easily rectifiable as the right forks (and rightish forks) are fairly easy to source.

If I bought this I'd strip it sell nearly all the bits and put bog standard XT on it (older if I could get because I think it looks nicer - nothing to do with period correctness), get the nasty stickers off with a hairdrier and put the correct ones on.

 

[goodas12003]

Hiya, thanks for the reply. I do get the fact it is front end high, but I would only be using it as a road bike, would it make any difference on the road? I just don't like modern hydroformed cack, and I understand the keep it retro thing but just like sumat a bit different. He's after £700 for it so it's a big purchase. Cheers Dave

 

[mynchiboy]

Hiya, thanks for the reply. I do get the fact it is front end high, but I would only be using it as a road bike, would it make any difference on the road? I just don't like modern hydroformed cack, and I understand the keep it retro thing but just like sumat a bit different. He's after £700 for it so it's a big purchase. Cheers Dave

If you're using it on the road sus forks are a waste of time IMO...the front end handling won't be helped much either by having it jacked up like that

If you really want it a set of rigids in the right length would probably work best, saying that 700 sheets should buy you a nice steel frame (maybe road bike?) and leave enough change for appropriate parts if you shop around with no need for the aforementioned hydroformed cack

 

[Radar]

£700 way too much for the bike. £450 tops.

Front end needs to come down to handle right. As already mentioned if you want it for the road, rigids would be the way to go - RC30s for the right height.

Better still buy a road bike - for £700 you could get something brand new with say 105 or maybe even Ultegra