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 🙂

Anyway, not sure why but thought I’d share it lol

Pick away! 🙂

Looks nice. Get some black grips.

It’s great! A *proper* bike 🙂

very nice indeed.just don’t loose it when it snows 😉

Yep, like that. Just need to get rid of the gears… 😉

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 🙂

Cheers for the comments.

The change grip colour to black comment is not the way the grips look now, but how they look after a ride or two.

Oh, nice build too 🙂
Should you need to shift the sids if you stick with rigid…. Get in touch 🙂

Will do 🙂

You should of gone for the WHITE Brothers rock solid rigids.
And, the typeface on the Dry Riser Outlet is too condensed.

There’s always one lol

If you want to swap the 90 stem for a 70mm one let us know
I have a Specalized one on the full suss that is a tad too short

Needs white outers. 8.5/10

white outer

the brake/shifter levers look MASSIVE 😯

the brake/shifter levers look MASSIVE

They do don’t they lol!

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.

But yeah, not the prettiest :p

I’d have some black tyre paint on them white tyre lines.
It looks like that car of “Grease”.

Grease Lighning by pten2106, on Flickr

Well you’re entitled to your opinion I guess 😉

I think they look rather fetching 🙂