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Bunnyhopper

ednwireland wrote: »

super restrained

Wow. Who makes that bike?



[yeah, not so restrained on the branding…]

Home:Ballyhoura

That just looks like a Planet X Exocet frame is it?

Lumen

Bunnyhopper wrote: »

Wow. Who makes that bike?

http://www.swiftcarbon.co.za/

BTH

Home:Ballyhoura wrote: »

That just looks like a Planet X Exocet frame is it?

Its bloody identical as far as i can see. My paint job is much nicer tho!!

Lumen

New project bike. Peugeot single speed mini-racer from France. Very old. Very cute. 33cm horizontal top tube. Open Pro rim included for scale.

Thanks to Caroline_ie for finding it.

Apologies for crap phone pic.

edit: tyres say Wolber 400x30A, which apparently is nominal 16" ETRTO 28-340.

Surveyor11

My brother rescued this from a skip (apparently there was 2 of them:eek:), sorry only image I have at hand at the mo but can post others. Bike looks great, could do with a bit of TLC but works fine. Has shifters on the down tube (indexed). It's a steel framed bike, kitted out in Shimano 600 groupset and Mavic wheels (don't havea s pec on these), from what I can see a pretty good spec for the time so looks like someone with a serious interest owned this beauty.
The lugs are very distinctive heart shapes - these occur in several places on the frame. Looks like it has chrome forks and chroming where the back of the frame is connected to the udnerside of the seatpost. My initial research indicates a DeRosa, but need a keener eye to assist

Mystery bike.jpg

petethedrummer

Lumen wrote: »

Can you please post a pic of you riding this?

Lusk Doyle

petethedrummer wrote: »

Can you please post a pic of you riding this?

Yes and in your pink gear!

Lusk Doyle

ednwireland wrote: »

super restrained

That is seriously sexy. I think I just wet myself :eek:

Hungrycol

Surveyor11 wrote: »

My brother rescued this from a skip (apparently there was 2 of them:eek:), sorry only image I have at hand at the mo but can post others. Bike looks great, could do with a bit of TLC but works fine. Has shifters on the down tube (indexed). It's a steel framed bike, kitted out in Shimano 600 groupset and Mavic wheels (don't havea s pec on these), from what I can see a pretty good spec for the time so looks like someone with a serious interest owned this beauty.
The lugs are very distinctive heart shapes - these occur in several places on the frame. Looks like it has chrome forks and chroming where the back of the frame is connected to the udnerside of the seatpost. My initial research indicates a DeRosa, but need a keener eye to assist

Mystery bike.jpg

Need more pics to go on than just a close up of a lug, please.

kincsem

Surveyor11 wrote: »

My brother rescued this from a skip (apparently there was 2 of them:eek:), sorry only image I have at hand at the mo but can post others. Bike looks great, could do with a bit of TLC but works fine. Has shifters on the down tube (indexed). It's a steel framed bike, kitted out in Shimano 600 groupset and Mavic wheels (don't havea s pec on these), from what I can see a pretty good spec for the time so looks like someone with a serious interest owned this beauty.
The lugs are very distinctive heart shapes - these occur in several places on the frame. Looks like it has chrome forks and chroming where the back of the frame is connected to the udnerside of the seatpost. My initial research indicates a DeRosa, but need a keener eye to assist

Mystery bike.jpg

A wild guess. Benotto.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41284201@N05/4842741203/in/set-72157624614643866

studiorat

I'd guess Benotto also, is there one on the bottom bracket? (underside)

Chrome seat stays, very cool...

Show us a picture of the underside and the where the seat post fits in...

Surveyor11

Thanks for all the feedback, here's a link to all the photos I have. Took them over the weekend, the bike is in Galway!

https://picasaweb.google.com/103345829457486180894/DropBox?authuser=0&feat=directlink

mo_bhicycle

Surveyor11 wrote: »

Thanks for all the feedback, here's a link to all the photos I have. Took them over the weekend, the bike is in Galway!

https://picasaweb.google.com/103345829457486180894/DropBox?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Nice!
What happened to the other bike in the skip?

CianRyan

mo_bhicycle wrote: »

Surveyor11 wrote: »

Thanks for all the feedback, here's a link to all the photos I have. Took them over the weekend, the bike is in Galway!

https://picasaweb.google.com/103345829457486180894/DropBox?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Nice!
What happened to the other bike in the skip?

My thoughts exactly, and where is this skip?

Surveyor11

He rescued this a few months back, the other bike was unfortunately left behind - he said it looked like a house was being gutted for a refurbishment, so everything was going out in the skip. I would have personally cycled from Dublin to Galway, strapped the other to my back, and cycled back with it!!:D

Morrisseeee

How to ride in Ireland :cool:

Gavin

Time to return to the commute!



I really wanted that colour, but On one have stopped selling that colour frame, so I ended up buying a shop soiled fully built bike. I'll stick with the flat bar for a while, but will probably change to drops and cable disc brakes at some point. Will change to a Charge Spoon saddle too Otherwise, it's actually great fun. Hub gears are deadly, really smooth.

I had to discard the disgusting dark blue "Fixie pop pop" tyres that came with it. Jesus, they were despicable.

Bluefoam

Gavin wrote: »

Time to return to the commute!



I really wanted that colour, but On one have stopped selling that colour frame, so I ended up buying a shop soiled fully built bike. I'll stick with the flat bar for a while, but will probably change to drops and cable disc brakes at some point. Will change to a Charge Spoon saddle too Otherwise, it's actually great fun. Hub gears are deadly, really smooth.

I had to discard the disgusting dark blue "Fixie pop pop" tyres that came with it. Jesus, they were despicable.

Is that an Alfine 11? I have an 8 and love it, but 11 would be even better...

tech

my 1st ever road bike! will post real pics in the next few days! Love it, I have just done over 100kms on it

Very happy with Bike so far.

Gavin

Bluefoam wrote: »

Is that an Alfine 11? I have an 8 and love it, but 11 would be even better...

Its an 8 speed. I was going to go for single speed, but the 8 speed was cheap enough, so figured why not.

CramCycle

Gavin wrote: »

Time to return to the commute!

Was that you beating down Roebuck/Clonskeagh road? I was the guy who shouted your chain looked like it was sagging a bit, just worried it would bounce off, fair cadence coming down that road I'll tell you.

Alanstrainor

Gavin wrote: »

Time to return to the commute!



I really wanted that colour, but On one have stopped selling that colour frame, so I ended up buying a shop soiled fully built bike. I'll stick with the flat bar for a while, but will probably change to drops and cable disc brakes at some point. Will change to a Charge Spoon saddle too Otherwise, it's actually great fun. Hub gears are deadly, really smooth.

I had to discard the disgusting dark blue "Fixie pop pop" tyres that came with it. Jesus, they were despicable.

Awesome bike! Great colour, i've the blue Pompino single speed;). Hmmmm...now i want a new fork and a disc on the front!

goldencleric

Gavin wrote: »

Time to return to the commute!

Offer 300 ... subject to inspection!

Damn nice bike, its defo on my list now.

Home:Ballyhoura

Gavin wrote: »

Time to return to the commute!

Can I ask you what size that is? Thinking of doing a frame swap with a new Pompino frame, was looking at the bight green colour, only available in small which is indeed quite small but might be ok, but have read that the geometry on them results in very bad toe/front wheel overlap problems? Do you have anything like that on yours? Sweet bike by the way!

MarcinG

Hi there.

this the end of this thread.
My plan was to buy cheap bike. I got very generous offer from Idleter for bike on dura ace 7700 without wheels and started to bring it back to proper order in hope to fit into 300 euro budget. But as usual when I'm buying fishing or cycling equipment things went out of hand. Some parts turned up to be worn or broken (I'm quite fussy) so I ended up with 75% new bike which currently looks as on picture below. Total budget was around 400 (closer to 500 if to take to account parts i had already from mountain bikes) euro and bike weights less than 10 kg in 58cm.
Not planning any upgrades soon apart maybe from from light and some mud guards (but i guess they will be super hard to find as i went for 28mm tires which barely fits frame and fork)

Gavin

CramCycle wrote: »

Was that you beating down Roebuck/Clonskeagh road? I was the guy who shouted your chain looked like it was sagging a bit, just worried it would bounce off, fair cadence coming down that road I'll tell you.

Not me I'm afraid! Haven't been up that way on me bike.

Home:Ballyhoura wrote: »

Can I ask you what size that is? Thinking of doing a frame swap with a new Pompino frame, was looking at the bight green colour, only available in small which is indeed quite small but might be ok, but have read that the geometry on them results in very bad toe/front wheel overlap problems? Do you have anything like that on yours? Sweet bike by the way!

Massive toe overlap. You need to be quite aware of it when pedalling around a bend, or even starting off at the lights occasionally. It's a medium frame. Definitely avoid a frame which might be too small for you

CramCycle

Gavin wrote: »

Not me I'm afraid! Haven't been up that way on me bike.

Alas someone else has the same bike as you, bad times, but glad to hear it wasn't you as I didn't want to start slinging mud about incorrect chain tension, amateur mistake (I know I've done it).

G rock

CramCycle wrote: »

Alas someone else has the same bike as you, bad times, but glad to hear it wasn't you as I didn't want to start slinging mud about incorrect chain tension, amateur mistake (I know I've done it).

if it was around 6.15pm and it was someone heading towards clonskeagh from foster's ave it was prob me.

although mine's a brown one, single speed. not quite as nice as gavin's! what can i say, i must be setting a trend

having trouble alright with chain tension but i have it sorted since i think.

and yes i am a rank amateur!

CramCycle

G rock wrote: »

if it was around 6.15pm and it was someone heading towards clonskeagh from foster's ave it was prob me.

although mine's a brown one, single speed. not quite as nice as gavin's! what can i say, i must be setting a trend

having trouble alright with chain tension but i have it sorted since i think.

and yes i am a rank amateur!

Not you, sorry, it was the same as Gavins (colour and it was fixed), heading from the direction of the Goat down towards Ranelagh, not from Fosters Avenue.