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Steel bars on a steel bike
Double phooar.I built a new Eddy Merckx over Xmas, but before I built that up I've done some tweaking to my steel rides. They are never normally all in full working order at the same time, but now they are so I'm posting them all together while they're all ship shape.
First up my custom Mercian Vincitore Special from 2010, my nice weather city bike
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Its got some lovely lug work
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Next up my Denti Road Tech Five, my first road bike, bought the frame and built it up in 2009. Its in its 3rd incarnation now having rinsed through 2 sets of wheels, broken seatpost, broken bars and lots of chains, cables and brake blocks. Its been off the road for a while but it rides again. Again it has some lovely lug work and I've never seen another frame like this. I've got this set up with a semi-compact 52-36 chainset, all my other roadies are 53/39 so this is my bike of choice when it gets really hilly. The top tube, down tube and seat tube are all made from teardrop shaped gilco tubing.
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I nicked the shifters from my Simoncini for my new Merckx build, so my Simoncini has had a revamp, now has new record shifters and some awesome looking yellow Shamals that look great. Another mile devouring, great looking bike.
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And now onto the sunny day shiny spangly disco glitterball bikes, Eddy and Brian. Brian gets lots of admiring comments and just encourages me to ride it like I stole it, an awesome fast machine, the pics don't do justice to the sparkly paint that looks deep enough to swim in. Eddy I have just finished building up over Chrimbo as a present to myself for cycling over 10,000 miles this year for the first time and can't wait to do some big rides on it in spring/summer.
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