I believe the Vaya has a bit of a following on this forum.

How ‘standard’ is yours?

I’ve got a vaya 2 which I’m currently tweaking. The supplied Shimano R563 crank (50/39/30) has been replaced with a customised 5703 one running 50/39/26 and I’ve changed the rear 10 spd cassette from 11-28 to 12-30. Shifters and mechs are still 105. I might even put a bigger cassette on it in the future but not sure if the rear mech will cope.

Probably going to put a Brookes C17 on it, donated by my brother, and change the marathon plus tyres for something a bit lighter.

Then off for a spot of light touring 🙂

I bought a F&F, but then just put kit on it I had..
Running a standard 52 39 30 Chainset, with 12-25 out the back.
Avid BB7s, Brooks Cambium, with Cowbell 3 bars.
Marathon Plus Tour tyres. Heavy, yes, but bombproof.

Love it.

Mine was built from a frameset, so I had the freedom to do what I wanted without having to swap stuff around from a new build. That said, it’s built for reliability, so it’s all rather unexcitingly familiar stuff.

50-39-30 R563 crank (by coincidence), M770SGS r-mech, R453 f-mech, M770 cassette (11-32), BL7700 bar-end shifters, BB7MTN calipers/Cane Creek Drop-V levers (with Cane Creek cross-top levers), One-One Midge bars, Bonty RL stem, seatpost from my spares bin (it’s some kinda FSA), Charge Spoon saddle. The wheels are Bonty TLR’s, with Bonty ‘race-lite’ 700 x 32’s tyres. Planned changes are to drop the 30 to a 28, and it’ll get a new dynamo-hubbed wheelset at some stage, using the DT Swiss XR331 rims and may … get a Cambium saddle too.

The *actual* next stage tho’ will be to bloomin’ get around to finally taping the ‘bars and putting it’s proper pedals on (rather than those ‘build/test’ stage pedals) – I built it up at least a month ago, rode it for about an hour to make sure everything was ok / in the right place (which it was), and it’s just been sat around like that ever since, waiting for me to just finish it off and take it out properly …

😕

OCB – don’t think you can put a smaller 28T inner chainring on the front. The R563 bcd for the inner ring is 92mm. That’s why I put the 5703 on, which has a smaller bcd of 74mm, allowing smaller than the standard 30. I picked my 5703 crank up cheap from Ribble as they are now old stock with the move of 105 to 11sp and double only on the 5800 series..

Good point! I had thought I had planned for doing that when I built it, but then your post made me wonder if I really did think it through after all …

… and it turns out I did, as that’s ^ a 5703 crank, not the 563.
(Non-groupset product ID / memory fail).

🙄 😉

Bought by accident. Love it.

Bog standard in this pic except for the saddle.

Bought by accident. Love it.

I bought mine by accident too!

My Vaya looks like this now, Compass Barlow Pass tyres and PDW fenders.

Seanthesheep Wins.

That is a lovely colourscheme- is it the new Ti one?

Thanks, yeah, new ti one.