PH wrote:Samuel D wrote:Maybe that will be more to your taste.
Ha! I was just chewing the fat rather than expecting you to take my taste into consideration, which would need more than a change of chainset.
Ouch! (Only playing again.)
PH wrote:I just found it odd that you would choose such different components […]
I think they go alright together, but the mix was arrived at over time by trial and error. The goal was a simple, durable, versatile, easy to maintain, inexpensive, efficient, and elegant machine. I didn’t much care who made the components or when as long as they were good.
Here’s the build list for the morbidly curious:
Frame: Spa Audax, black, 58 cm, welded Reynolds 725 steel
Fork: Spa (Aprebic) carbon fibre with aluminium steerer tube
Headset: Campagnolo Record HS00-RETHOS
Stem: Ritchey Classic C220, 90 mm, 6° in photos; changed the day after to Nitto UI-85 EX, 110 mm, 8°
Handlebar: Nitto Mod. 177 ‘Noodle’, 40 cm
Seatpost: Nitto S83, 250 mm
Seatpost clamp: Salsa Lip-Lock
Saddle: Selle San Marco Regal, honey brown
Brake levers: Dia-Compe Gran Compe GC202, brown hoods
Brake callipers: Campagnolo Record 2040 (I think) single-pivot side-pull. These were sold to me as Super Record but I’ve since read that Super Record groups came with Record callipers in those years. They were also sold to me as recessed-nut but only because someone had taken a hacksaw to the pivot bolts and swapped nuts
Brake pads: Kool-Stop KS-CRSA cartridge-type, salmon
Brake cables: Shimano SLR housing with polished stainless steel cables
Gear levers: Shimano SL-R400 down-tube shifters, friction front, 8-speed indexed rear
Gear cable housing: Shimano OT-SP41
Rear derailleur: Shimano Dura-Ace RD-7800
Front derailleur: Shimano Claris FD-2400 braze-on with Zenith adaptor
Pedals: Favero Assioma Uno
Bottom bracket: Shimano BB-RS500
Cranks: Shimano 105 FC-5600
Chainrings: Spécialités TA Alizé, 49T and 38T
Cassette: Shimano CS-HG50-8 with 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, and 26T sprockets
Chain: SRAM PC-850, 110 links
Rear hub: Shimano 105 FH-5700, 36-hole
Front hub: Shimano 105 HB-5700, 32-hole
Rear rim: Mavic Open Pro C, silver, 36-hole
Front rim: temporarily Exal XR2 32-hole; will be Mavic Open Elite if I rebuild with this hub and spokes, otherwise a 36-hole Open Pro C
Rim tape: Velox, 16 mm, cotton
Spokes: Alpina ACI, silver, double-butted stainless steel with 12 mm brass nipples
Tubes: Michelin AirComp Latex
Tyres: Schwalbe One HS 448, 23 mm
Handlebar tape: Velox Tressostar, cotton, white
Bottle cage: Elite Ciussi Inox, stainless steel
slowster wrote:Samuel's bike is an off the peg modern frame, and aesthetically I think he has got the build pretty much spot on for that frame. I don't normally like the modern style Shimano road chainsets, but on his bike the silver Shimano chainset looks good.
Thanks! The FC-5600 isn’t as fat and distorted as current Shimano cranks. Those might push the aesthetics over the edge … or still not? It’s hard to say without building a bicycle.