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Up for grabs...
Super light Principia Frameset & CK headset.
Handmade in Denmark and widely considered the ‘gold standard’ in aluminium frames ... the price for this frameset alone was around £1.5k back in the day! Circa 2002 I would guess.
Not only is it just light, principia were famed for their stiffness.. IIRC they did some tube inter-locking thing before welding - anyhows, the proof is in the eating and this thing absolutely flys up hills.
Condition is good, but the frame does have a few age related scuffs & rubs. The frame is not painted (paint is heavy right!?) it is instead anodised (oooh!). Hence the decals are stuck on.. they are not the original decals, and I would whip them off personally but that’s the buyers choice.
The original seatpost clamp had a faulty thread, so I was going to sell without, but then I managed to cobble something together from a Hope clamp (it’s 30.0)
The frame/fork has a 1-1/8” CHris King headset installed. I will also throw in the ITM stem
The fork is full carbon and in superb condition, only a few scrapes underneath the crown as per usual. The steerer is quite short, a ‘racing length’ you might say...
So the numbers...
Top tube looks like 53.5 cm
C-T seattube is 54cm
Headtube is 97mm (excluding headset)
BB is 68mm English threaded
So, there you have it, a super light, retro racer. Showing its age cosmetically but a fine candidate for a weight-weenie budget build.
Asking £100 collected (from Leeds) or £120 posted