I just sold my bikes and accepted tiny living quarters.
Started looking at replacement cost of Campy chain and cassette.
Selling Campy group.
Sold Campy hubs.
Buying 5700 silver group directly through Shimano.
----Campylife is rad, but way too pricey.
is it a brazeon type?
if not I think I’ll get one of these: http://www.shimano.com/publish/content/global_cycle/en/au/index/products/road/flat_handlebar/product.-code-FD-R770.-type-..html
Not braze-on type.
[quote=motorbacon]
----Campylife is rad, but way too pricey.[/quote]
If you’re running 10sp you can get a chain and cassette for under $100 new from ribble, or do what I do and snatch up lightly used 10s chorus cassettes when I see them. Veloce chains are ~$30 and last longer than any shimano chain too. 5700 is nice though and wear items are really really chap, but the group as a whole is heavier than any campy group.
Dude, I’ve got a Chorus cassette that I’ve been trying to sell on eBay for $30 for a month now. 10 speed Campagnolo shit isn’t worth anything. Also, Shimano and SRAM chains work perfectly well with Campy. They wear faster, but if you’ve got a cheap source, it’s not a bad way to go.
Also, 5700 blows and is definitely a downgrade. I would support this if you were moving to 6800.
You listed that cassette as US only?
Coz I always scout for cheap 10s stuff to hoard for my 6/7 bikes that run C10.
[quote=Sneaky Viking]I went and rode my rigid 29er in the snow through a park and on some icy/snowy plowed dirt roads. it was fine.
I think I’ll just pick up a last year’s Scott Aspect with Shimano hydros for stupid cheap and put an ebay carbon fork on it and call it a day. might powdercoat it too for shits and giggles.[/quote]
cheap Spark, and throw the Fox off my Scale on it and throw a Salsa steel fork and one of those seatclamps with the threaded attachments on the Scale and then I’ll have a FS and a kid hauler and I’ll be straight.
Sell Cannondale frameset, sugino 75s, some tires, some cranks, and pedals
Build daily wheelset for endpoint: some centerlock hubs to belgium plus rims
Build race wheelset for endpoint: centerlock hubs to belgium tubular rims
Build up endpoint with the 6800 group I already have plus either CX77, Spyre, or HY RD brakes.
Buy 6870 RD and sell off 6770 RD on the bmc, flash firmware and go to 11!
If funds left over, buy race wheels.
Come March, pick up an AR FRD frameset and remaining parts for full 6870 group which transfers to Felt, install 6800 group from endpoint onto bmc and sell complete, buy r785 shifters and brakes for endpoint and use remaining 6770 infrastructure plus sell off excess di2 parts.
Replace triple crankset on the highball with a 29er friendly dubble.
Ride off into the sunset.
In my mind that would put me at bicycle end game, no real need for anything more (barring some cool new mtb shoes and balleur tubeless xc wheels). Then I can just ride my bikes and be happy with rad bikes for the next 5 years until they come out with laser-activated shifting.
[quote=bonechilling]Ok, change of plans. I hate my road bike, so I bought one of these (alluded to earlier) from Special Ed’s end-of-the-year employee purchase blowout.
Going to wrap it with this tape.
And install these cages.
Basically the total opposite of everything I’ve ever done on my bikes before.[/quote]
Never mind. No special deal on this frame, so I got the all black, which I’ll do up in a much lamer way.
fixed that for your blank canvas
Seattle Bike Swap is Sunday. I just started working on my shopping list. I find this really helps me avoid getting distracted by shiny things or taking on new dumb projects.
Always kind of eye opening/depressing to write out all the bike crap I’m looking for.
sw8 fixie lyfe sounds good sometimes amirite?
U rite.
road
get super six back from repair, add boner stem
ride that until i can afford a hi-mod synapse with 6800
mtn
sell f29 carbon HT
buy scott genius 27-fiver
cx
never again
i love myself and want to remain healthy for many years to come
new plan
buy mtb for cheap
add boner stem and raise seat way up
troll obscure fixie forum
LOL
can we talk about this for a minute?
I shopbro Scott too.
I was looking at a Spark 29 cos last years are stupid cheap.
Basically my heart tells me Genius travel suspension with 27.5 would be ideal for local twisty turny rocky rooties, but my wallet says bro get the Spark.
Also my Scale 29 feels right.
Sell off about 10 bikes, use funds for 2015 GDMBR trip