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Lumen wrote: »

Did you take the insurance? I'm not sure I'd be brave enough to use them in open races without insurance.

No insurance, I bought them slightly secondhand, but AFAIK they will do a crash replacement even w/o insurance, but I'd be hoping not to crash them. Might stay away from some of the early season A4 races so.....

Lemag wrote: »

If you're being a weight weeny about your bike you might consider these. They are available on this site (and probably elsewhere) for a good bit less than the Keos. I have the Blade Ti, btw, but these are meant to be quite similar and I'd have gone for them had I known about them before buying the Keos.

These look nice, but TBH I have the Blades on another bike & am reluctant to change. I bought them in CSS for €215 when they came out - they developed a fault a few weeks ago & CSS replaced them without quibble, so will probably just spend the extra & give the custom to a local business.

Had to send back an R3-SL due to a bottom bracket crack. After a few months of a wait I finally got this as a replacement -

I'm a very happy boy. As for Cervelo's warranty policy, top notch.

Weight with pedals a computer and cages and it will make race weight im sure

latest machine in the stable. All parts except for bars, chain, pedals, cables, tape and tyres were sourced second hand in the last year or so. Frame is fillet brazed Dedacciai steel with a carbon monobox rear and reynolds ouzo pro fork. Group is super record and finish kit a mix of thomson & fsa. Saddle is a specialized troupe and pedals are look blade's. Total weight as pictured is 7.78k, so just a touch over 17lbs, not bad for semi old school ride. Could easily get it under 17lbs with some new tyres and bottle cage. Big thanks to Quigs Snr for your help with the cassette fitting. Image of beauty? I like to think so.

haha..it actually needs to go up just shy of 1cm. In actual fact the frame was designed this way, the original owner was obviously very flexible or immensely disproportionate , its got a v short head tube realitive to tt lenght resulting in a fair bit of seappost on show to suit a beast like myself! Drop from saddle to bars in this configuration is 10cm, not uber extreme by any means.

@icyseanfitz, here my mtb and gratuitous angry race shot! Its an on-one inbred, fox forks, xt drive train, hope hubs and brakes and a mix of thomson, easton and race face kit with a very comfy sdg cow print saddle. Hope you like.

[QUOTE= cant wait to get back on it with the nice weather, its been a long ass 4 weeks since my last cycle :mad:[/QUOTE]

surely weather of any description isn't a deterrent from mtb'ing! NB 2nd pic

smush76 wrote: »

latest machine in the stable. All parts except for bars, chain, pedals, cables, tape and tyres were sourced second hand in the last year or so. Frame is fillet brazed Dedacciai steel with a carbon monobox rear and reynolds ouzo pro fork. Group is super record and finish kit a mix of thomson & fsa. Saddle is a specialized troupe and pedals are look blade's. Total weight as pictured is 7.78k, so just a touch over 17lbs, not bad for semi old school ride. Could easily get it under 17lbs with some new tyres and bottle cage. Big thanks to Quigs Snr for your help with the cassette fitting. Image of beauty? I like to think so.

Beauty, but you put the stem on upside down

My new best friend............will post a better pic when I have a good camera handy and a few things altered, wheel reflectors removed (is that legal ?) & a new, white San Marco Rolls saddle will be replacing the stock one.

have it a few years now but here's a pic of my Scott R2

@fat bloke - great minds! Already done that, have since fitted Red Hudz and matching bar tape to brighten up the cockpit. The stem has been lowered too & abt 1" taken off the seatpost. As for the saddle that's a fiz:ik Arione and I swear by it, it will never be changed!

Needabike wrote: »

Did you buy those wheels on e- bay
Are they 38's or 50's

How do you find them , any broken spokes yet?

Also where did you get the saddle bag. I need a decent one. My BBB is rubbish.

LCRC_BAX wrote: »

@fat bloke - great minds! Already done that, have since fitted Red Hudz and matching bar tape to brighten up the cockpit. The stem has been lowered too & abt 1" taken off the seatpost. As for the saddle that's a fiz:ik Arione and I swear by it, it will never be changed!

Did you keep the tape you took off? The bar tape on the Addict is the best I've ever used, loads of people I know would frikken kill for it but it can't be bought anywhere, not even from Scott themselves. From what I believe the guys in Slanes are tortured by people looking for it but it just can't be had as an aftermarket product.