Forgive me....I strayed to the Darkside.

[Drago]

The polymers in some kinds of finished CF don't do well in salt, but if you're not washing your bike in seawater I can't see it being a problem. One thing is for sure - it rusts more slowly than steel!

 

[Sharky]

Will you need enhanced lights if riding on the darkside?

 

[BalkanExpress]

Will you need enhanced lights if riding on the darkside?

Oh yes, and a hi-viz vest made from the skins of the finest space lemons :-)

Pedals now fitted:-) I had wondered why my speed had dropped.

 

[BalkanExpress]

Is that the Vitus with the 'death fork'

Did Vitus have a "Death fork" as well? I used to own a Peugeot "Death bike" but didn't die so and reasonably relaxed.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Goes like a rocket,

Vibrates the hell out of you, ready to blow up at any moment, and can't go round corners?

 

[raleighnut]

Did Vitus have a "Death fork" as well? I used to own a Peugeot "Death bike" but didn't die so and reasonably relaxed.

I thought the Aluminium fork was prone to failure.

 

[woodbutcher]

Surely that is a myth , i mean people don't really believe that do they

Yeah and the moon is made of green cheese !

 

[woodbutcher]

Vibrates the hell out of you, ready to blow up at any moment, and can't go round corners?

Sounds like some kind of failed prosthetic sex toy

 

[BalkanExpress]

Ooh my, that's nice! Sachs New Success throughout?
It's the top of a slippery slope - you'll be chasing Suntour and Mavic next.
Just say 20 'Hail Tulio's and you're forgiven

@Specialeyes ...look what you made me do

 

[Specialeyes]

@Specialeyes ...look what you made me do

That's very nice... but what frame are they going on?

Now say another 20 Hail Tulios!

 

[BalkanExpress]

That's very nice... but what frame are they going on?

Now say another 20 Hail Tulios!

Let’s just say I might have to say more than 20 hail Geralds

The bar and stem are from the Boston Mavic team, I bought them from one of the team’s mechanics. He had one of Eddy Merckx’s team Fiat bikes on the work-stand, De Rosa frame which had been carried over and repainted from Molteni