Thought I’d share a few pics of a build I just finished this evening. I’ve been collecting bits from here now for a couple of weeks.
I just bought a new Lapierre Spicy but needed something else more suitable for commuting and evenings round a couple of localish loops, keeping the Spicy for trail centre, uplift and alps trips.
This is it in offroad guise but I’ve another set of wheels with semi-slicks and a road cassette for commuting.
Only thing I need is a shorter stem as the 90mm is too long for me with the 18″ frame, the top tube is well long on these frames!
Always fancied building up a ridgid bike again too and the offshoot bonus is it’s nice and light with the carbon fork for hauling up 4 flights of stairs to my flat 🙂
Hehe I had thought about single-speeding it but that would resign it purely to commuting as im not fit enough at the moment to take a SS offroad I don’t think.
The grips actually look good in the flesh but I had to tweak the pics a bit in photoshop as the camera’s crap which makes them look too bright.
I do actually have a very nice mint set of SID race there sat ready to go on if I dont get on with the carbon forks, will need to see how my wrists hold up after a proper ride tomorrow evening after work 🙂
They actually work very well and at £60 for the shifters/levers, calipers, pads and all mounting adaptors/bolts etc I tink they were hard to beat value wise.