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  • #8912
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    beans wrote: »
    Mercian quoted me 700£ for the replacement, interestingly enough.
    replacement or repair?


  • #8913
    beans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭beans


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    replacement or repair?

    My bad, replacing the tubes, so repair!


  • #8914
    Mercian Pro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,349 ✭✭✭Mercian Pro


    beans wrote: »
    Mercian quoted me 700£ for the replacement, interestingly enough.

    Maybe I'll see if there's someone local (London) who wants the job. If it comes down to it and I'm looking to offload the frame, I'll pop back here :)

    Sorry for your loss!

    My recollection from when I wrote off my Mercian Pro is that Mercian's price wasn't far off the cost of a new frame. By the time new tubes, headset, forks, respraying, transfers, labour, shipping etc was included, it just didn't make economic sense. Emotion and nostalgia nearly won out but, after a couple of years of it hanging on the wall of the shed, I gave it to Rothar who may have salvaged some bits.


  • #8915
    Miklos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Miklos


    1411bbs.jpg

    My Scott Addict in race mode, I think it's beautiful!


  • #8916
    beans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭beans


    I was awarded damages which covered replacement, thankfully.

    I remember reading about your dead frame and wincing at the time...


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  • #8917
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    [QUOTE=Miklos;

    My Scott Addict in race mode, I think it's beautiful![/QUOTE]

    So do I. And in the correct colours, Well done.

    but circumcise the steerer tube!


  • #8918
    Miklos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Miklos


    Eamonnator wrote: »
    So do I. And in the correct colours, Well done.

    but circumcise the steerer tube!

    I'm working my way down at the moment, trying to find my lowest possible position ever so gradually so I'm not going to cut it until I've settled on something.


  • #8919
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    ^^^^^^^
    quite right.Measure twice, cut once.


  • #8920
    Plastik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plastik


    7Ix4Ej5l.jpg


  • #8921
    The tax man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,562 ✭✭✭The tax man


    Look-785-Huez-Rs-032.jpg

    Think I found my future sweetheart today. I go weak at the knees for matt carbon. Stunning in the flesh. A frame set would do nicely. Complete bike is stupid money.


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  • #8922
    AstraMonti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,704 ✭✭✭AstraMonti


    This is beautiful. Look after a long time produced a frame that is not littered with unneeded and stupid angles.


  • #8923
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    20045336_822599201237170_1688593969344678256_o.jpg?oh=a78ce731d537736c434f47e482152f6c&oe=5A053D2D

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=822599201237170&set=a.193278710835892.1073741825.100004612931813&type=3&theater


  • #8924
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,515 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    ^^ I wonder whether that front rack is actually usable for anything.


  • #8925
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    I wonder whether that front rack is actually usable for anything.

    Normal front panniers (mounted high for clearance) and shelf to support a large bar bag?


  • #8926
    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 23,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Weepsie wrote: »
    That might be the least ugly disc brake bike I've seen as I barely noticed them

    I don't understand how you missed them, you can see those things from the moon.

    they/them/theirs


    The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

    Noam Chomsky



  • #8927
    fat bloke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Plastik wrote: »

    I laughed. Then I realised that rear spoke reflector was a paving slab :D


  • #8928
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Bastion Ti lugged carbon (3d printed lugs)

    ae0553156ffb96e6be02260a3cf68328.jpg

    more https://www.reddit.com/r/Bikeporn/comments/6eco7j/bastion_carbon_fiber_3dprinted_ti_more_in_comments/


  • #8929
    clod71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭clod71


    When classic and modern meet...  
    31356095844_4075f7381d_b.jpg


  • #8930
    Thud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭Thud


    clod71 wrote: »
    When classic and modern meet...
    31356095844_4075f7381d_b.jpg
    similar frame to this:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057767932


  • #8931
    clod71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 641 ✭✭✭clod71


    yes @Thud, that's why I posted it actually and you'll find a curse to my height in that post too! :)


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  • #8932
    Thud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭Thud


    Wittson_Ti-16.jpg


  • #8933
    koutoubia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭koutoubia


    IMG_20170731_140509_zps8iemozxh.jpg


    MINE!!

    Didnt really want to build it this year but hand was forced after a bearing race seized on my other one.
    Currently has old Athena on it but will shod it with Chorus as soon as budget allows!


  • #8934
    Plastik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plastik


    *too big
    https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4413/36551253435_8655ddc3a2_k.jpg


  • #8935
    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,360 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    Plastik wrote: »
    *too big
    https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4413/36551253435_8655ddc3a2_k.jpg

    That's beautiful
    rsz_36551253435_8655ddc3a2_k.jpg


  • #8936
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,777 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Plastik wrote: »
    *too big
    https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4413/36551253435_8655ddc3a2_k.jpg

    Not a fan of the rims here. I like them on some bikes like all black but top marks for the flash of blue on the break pads.

    EDIT: Would coloured tyres work here, if you could find a match ? Saw some recently on a bike , just the contact surface was red the walls were normal black.


  • #8937
    letape
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,934 ✭✭✭letape


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Not a fan of the rims here. I like them on some bikes like all black but top marks for the flash of blue on the break pads.

    I think the brake pads are Reynolds cryo pads that come with the wheels. Very good pads and the colour was a bonus for the build!


  • #8938
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    06ce009cc56c1baa2be9b6ccceb0d20d.jpg


  • #8939
    De Bhál
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,141 ✭✭✭De Bhál


    Too much black...personally I'm tired of stealth black bikes now.
    Not that I'd say no to that one.


  • #8940
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    god be with the days of dayglo MBK bikes.


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  • #8941
    terrydel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,881 ✭✭✭terrydel


    After 86k and over 1500m of climbing on sunday, this is easily the most beautiful thing I saw when I stopped at Sallys Gap. Bought it in Laragh when having lunch, flew up the 20k to the gap and this was my treat.
    A can of coke when cycling is one of my simple pleasures in life!


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