What steel roadbike frame

That does sound a fair price Gary_C 🙂

Arione black and white saddle and Fizik whiter logo bartape would look great on that frame. Oh, I have a frame the same colour – see commuting bikes. White picks out the Ritchey logo.

Hora – in the event you get buyer’s remorse, ‘Cyclist’ magazine did a review of the Ritchey frame you just bought some time last year (built up with Campy Record). I will have a look at which issue it was in, but to summarise, they said it was a fabulous frame, built for racing in mind, fast, responsive and very stiff. They did say it gave a slightly harsh ride as a result, but that they didn’t mind this because it was an out and out race bike. They also said they would be happpy racing it as such.

Frame weight was quoted as 1.79kg.

Always loved the Ritchey seat cluster.

Cant link image from phonw but first impression, I found the stem slammed and stem reversed alot better. Seat could be a smidge higher but it feels GOOD.
The ‘racey’ comment ^ either I prefer the racey feel or the Ritchey frame ain’t race-geo. If I’m wrong I’ll be amazed 😀
http://www.flickr.com/#/photos/30625376@N06/16395661477/

It needs a wipe (my hands were abit oily)

Looking good :D, but that seatpost is shocking !!!! If you keep the black h/bar tape you’ll have to beg, steal or borrow a black saddle. I’d rotate the bars round a bit, but that comes under personal preference.

White bar tape. For the love of God, white bar tape.

That seat post is an old MTB FSA carbon thingy I found. Will sort tape next as its cheaper than a new Phenom..

Great stuff, although your attention to detail is poor. The chain should be put in the big ring for photos, valves/tyre logos need lining up, cable outers are way too long at the front, needs another bottle cage, bars need rotating down etc.

I like your inline seatpost with saddle set forward; shows your mtb roots. A nice touch.

Any reason I can’t see the pictures from that link? It just goes to my Flickr home page. Can’t see no bike. 🙁

Me neither. Just takes me to my home page on Flickr

Agree need hoods forward. I was lazy I just straight swapped the outers/setup from my planetx straight over and fitted new inners. Weird side compartment on hoods that you have to open too whilst feeeding the gear cables!

Out of interest is the seat that far forward for pedalling position or your reach it looks a very odd position tbh

Wheels go well with the frame colour

Should I try my 90 stem instead of the 110? It feels good with the saddle forward.

Yea can someone post pictures in here please? Flickr is being a pain.

IMG_20150221_170825 by markhoracek[/url], on Flickr

Cheers

Garden is exactly how I pictured it.

Valves/logos but more importantly road bikes have to be photographed in the big ring, it’s the law.

Oh, and cranks at wrong angle.

Looks lovely despite that though 🙂

Its West Chorlton Bregante in the sleepy hamlet of Saint Retford by-the-water. Sleepy locals go to collect the Harvest once a week at ye old job centre and the cheery local bobby chases the local scoundrel

Whatever feels good worth a try if you have spares as it takes 5 mins. Ive ended up moving my saddle position and putting a 90mm stem on and it feels better to me but we’re all different in how we like things to fit. Costs nowt to play around with fit tho

That saddle bar tape combo is giving me a touch of the vapours so I’m out of here til this is on a new page without that NSFW picture.

Edit- which this post seems to have done…

Garden is exactly how I pictured it.

Urban chic

However a bike a like despite the saddle looking like it’s making a bid for freedom

Looks alriiight that, well done.

So, put some miles on it before fiddling, then after about 10 long rides start the process of making it “yours”

Niiiice 8)

Not bad, brake blocks are all to **** though. Front ones look they’ll take the paint off the rim.

Oo did the rears forgot about the front as I didn’t need to change the inner on those. Cheers

So how does it ride?

Ferck me Hora, nice frame but the rest looks like it’s been put together by a 7 year old after a cycle jumble 🙂

Suppose there were so many nice bikes in the thread, I was expecting more 🙁

Harsh, but fair.

Boblo furry muff.

Its my first ever road bike build

Feel free to post a pic of your first ever roadbike build 😀

Sorry Hora, mine had a very large wheel at the front and a much smaller one at the rear, a man called Niepce was in charge of the photos 🙂

Give the wheels a clean there’s a good chap.

A Road Bike……are you MAD !!

Lovely frame that 🙂

Can’t quite put my finger on it but just doesn’t look right !! Maybe dirty parts ? Mis matched saddle ? Ugly stem ?

Reckon with few changes she’ll look the biz 🙂

What’s weight ?

an’t quite put my finger on it but just doesn’t

It’s because it’s been cobbled together with bits he already had, so it just looks shonky..
Which is a shame, as it’s an awesome frame.
One I’m tempted by myself..

I think he ultegra looks grand on it, some white tape and matching stem and seat post would only leave one thing wrong…..

sort the pedals out (can’t believe I’m the first to mention them)

It’ll get sorted on the first dark rainy evening we get…

On a tangent, what do people think about using Shimano cranks with Campag gears and shifters. What saddle would work with that?

Tricky. I have a Shimano chainset on my cross bike and just about to fit Campag gears and wheels.
I don’t have a saddle yet, I say tricky, really I’m just concerned.

Well I think its more than fine.

Which makes it criminal

Oh God! Silver rims and spokes, white saddle? Sell them and buy black. Seatpost. Should be Ritchey WCS not that abomination. Saddle. Where it should be not trying to make its way to sit on the steerer. If that’s where you need the saddle to be in relation the bottom bracket (and the frame as a whole) you’re either deformed or that’s the wrong sized frame. WCS bar and stem. 90mm? It’s a road bike. You’re not meant to have the bar under your chin. Bar rotated forward, not like the cow horns you have it at now. What the hell are those pedals doing on it? Lizard Skin black bar tape. Black outer cables. Cut to the minimum length. Don’t ride it or leave it near me. I’ll nick it.
Do the opposite of what the Badly Drawn Dog says. Banterz!

I’m going to have to ride it late at night in a cloak at this rate!

Saddle pos/stem/tape sorting this week.