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Have you considered Vittoria Diamanté or Open Corse CX range. Sorry just throwing a spanner in the works.

I can't say I am Suprised, but I am very disappointed. I love this sport and have been involved for 25 years, it's part of who I am. But it's starting to get embarrassing trying to explain to my "layman" mates why cyclists are always using drugs and getting bust. I think anyone would be very naive to think any of the top guys are clean. Just a very disappointing day for SA cycling.

This is the type of road racing South Africa needs. Bring the racing to the people in a nice safe environment. Crit racing is brilliant if you one of the top boys, keeps the legs nice and sharp. I see these a vintage section, downtube shifting while elbowing your mate out of the way mid corner.. Should be fun. Let's hope it takes off.

Can't beat hand polishing. All of our injection moulds get hand polished, best shine by far. And I guess it's a labour of love.

I polished my old 105 crank for my old Hansom. Started with 600 water paper and worked my way down to 1500. Then I used brasso to shine it and after that I used autosol metal polish to give it it's last shine. Took me about 5 hrs.

Now that's talking my language.... So damn hot.

There is just something special when you look at a classically built steel frame. Love it.

If it has downtube shifters most probably is a 2.8 series. Nice bikes, super rigid and strong. Some pictures would be great to confirm. Price, probably not too much. There are some cannondale collectors, but they don't carry as much value as steel framed bikes of similar age. Why sell it, they are bikes that will last forever. Rather keep it and use it if he can.

If I'm not mistaken the carbitubo was the start of their "mass" production of carbon frames. I think they did make limited numbers of carbon frames before that. The carbitubo was made mid to late 90's, if memory serves me correctly. But I guess Google would tell you exactly what year. The model would give a better idea of date of manufacture.

Agreed, but at least you have handle bars. Although sitting right above the "steering" wheel must be a bit of a nightmare to handle.

Driven via the front wheel though.

Putting my flame suit on right now...???? It kinda does make some sense. I mean motocross bikes have been designed with a bigger front wheel and smaller back wheel for just about ever. Bigger front wheel to get over obstacles easier and a smaller rear wheel to allow for better power transfer. The only real difference is that on a MX bike you have a motor to apply the power and not legs. I'm not saying I like how it looks or even think it will take off, but the commonly accepted setup of an off road cycle should look like that. Just an observation.

Dude, where the heck do you find these old BMX's... Looks very cool. Nice job.

No pictures.

Pictures or it doesn't exist. ☺

Components are very average but the frame is interesting. Is it the same bike that was for sale a while ago? If so I recall the wheels being 650c and that could be a problem, not many want that wheel size. If it's a normal 700c wheel then it may have some value. But the value would lie in the frame.

Sorry to hear your news. I hope she makes contact with you so you can lay a charge against her. Stay strong and get well soon. Be sure to have a physio take a look at that leg, you need to get that haematoma draining as soon as possible to avoid any scar tissue forming.

I would say try and ride a mates FS first. I have always ridden hard tail and 4 years ago my hard tail was stollen and I then bought a FS probably the worst thing I could have done. Could never get used to the back wheel feeling "disconnected" from the bike. I much prefer a hard tail. So just try and ride one for a few days, you will only know the answer then.

+1 on the news paper, millions of hobo's cant be wrong.

With modern geometry the trend is shorter seat tube and longer top tube ratio. The classic "italian" geometry is what I like. 60cm seat tube gets you a 58cm top tube, and run a 130 stem right down on the headset. On a 58 I have to lift my stem up and it just looks odd. I feel the most comfortable on that setup. I really struggle with "modern" sloping top tube designs.

Inseam dependent. I am 187cm tall but have a 91cm inseam, short torso, long arms and legs. I ride a 60cm conventional geometry frame. Compact frames and I don't work too well. I agree, book in for a setup and see what the outcome is.

Also try Merlin cycles, they often have specials on group sets. http://www.merlincycles.com/groupsets-by-shimano-campagnolo-and-sram-44205/

Heard CycleArt are pretty good too, anyone have first hand experience with them?

Personally I would build it with the 600 tri-colour. These bikes came equipped with shimano. I have only seen Daccordi's in South Africa built with Shimano. In the late 80's, early 90's Shimano were years ahead of Campag in terms of gear indexing and were often the preferred manufacturer to be used on bikes brought into South Africa.

The nice thing about the current campag equipment, it doesn't look out of place on a 25 year old bike. Good looking bike.