For Sale: Steve Goff 54cm road bike, Reynolds 753, Campag everything

**I'm selling my road bike, due to lack of space, lack of riding fast on roads, and lack of money. **

It is built around a Steve Goff road frame, hand-made in Skelmersdale, Lancs, by a proper artisan. Ask anyone who owns one and they'll tell you the quality is exceptional.

This one is 55.5cm top tube CTC and 54cm seat tube CTC (56cm CTT), made in the late 80s or early 90s and is made from Birmingham's finest tubing at the time the legendary Reynolds 753. This is of course 222 more awesome than 531. It's really light weight, and the tubes make a lovely 'ting!' sound when you tap them, just like they should. It's got short racing geo, mounts for a bottle cage, and lovely fastback seat stays in the Harry Quinn style.

It's got some nice lugs, with a cast fork crown (complete with Reynolds pantographing), seat lug, rear brake bridge and bottom bracket shell.

The paint is decent quality, blue fading to silver at the bottom, with chrome Campagnolo dropouts and fork-ends. It's pretty good for a 20-25 year old bike, but it's not perfect. There are little nicks, and lock rash, plus I had to retouch the BB shell underneath with some brush enamel.

I spent a lot of time and money fitting out the bike with the prettiest kit, almost all from the C-Record and contemporary Chorus groupsets.

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• Campagnolo Record crankset (with the hidden 5th arm) with self-extracting crank bolts, Campagnolo 52 and 42 chainrings, and the correct Campagnolo chrome chainring bolts.
  
• Campagnolo Record bottom bracket
  
• Campagnolo Record headset
  
• Campagnolo Record RR downtube shifters. These are absolutely beautiful (too beautiful to replace with Ergos, though the groupset is compatible), and are what came after Syncro 2. The front changer is friction (one ring on either end of the limit) and the rear changer is indexed. Unlike Syncro they index perfectly and always have.
  
• Campagnolo Chorus band-on front mech
  
• Campagnolo Mirage rear mech. There was a Record, but it was broken (yay, this bike's broken Records!), so I got this later Mirage which works great and is the same as the earlier Chorus mech. I will also include a Chorus 'A-B' dual mode unit I bought but never fitted.
  
• Practically brand new 8 speed Campagnolo Record exa-drive cassette and new Sram Pc-870 chain. The driveline is now practically silent.
  
• Campagnolo Chorus aero brake levers with dual cable routing. Black hoods in perfect condition.
  
• Campagnolo Chorus Monoplanar brake callipers with original Campag pads and holders. These are beautiful and very effective.
  
• Campagnolo Chorus aero seatpost.
  
• Campagnolo Chorus or C-Record low flange 8 speed hubset (36 hole) laced to Campagnolo Omega Strada Hardox shallow-v rims. I will also supply the original Campagnolo C-Record low flange 7 speed (screw-on freewheel block) hubset.
  
• Campagnolo inner and branded outer cables
  
• Cinelli Campione Del Mondo drop bars, drilled for aero cable routing and wrapped in Brooks black leather bar tape.
  
• Cinelli Record 1R stem
  
• Selle Italia Turbomatic 3 saddle.
  
• Maxxis Re-Fuse 23c tyres in good condition.
  
• Time Atac Alium pedals.
  
• Tortec aluminium bottle cage.
  
  
  

Huge photos of everything are HERE!**

This bike is a fast old thing. When we last got away with riding the closed route of a popular distance running race I averaged* 30mph round a bit of the Isle of dogs, and got up to 40mph along the embankment. And I am a fat slow old person. It was great at being ridden at those speeds. The fastest I ever did was 48mph downhill along Holland Park Avenue, shortly after which I decided to remove the cycle computer before I killed myself trying to beat 50. Imagine how fast all you energetic youthful thin people can go.

So, how much am I asking for this beauty? Just £600 gets you the complete bike, plus alternative Campag rear mech and hubset, and no doubt the envy of your peers, and admiration of your chosen sexual partmers too.

I spent a long time and a fair bit of money collecting all the parts to make this bike perfect, and as such I would rather sell it as a complete bike than split it.

I have no intention of posting it. I wouldn't trust the postmen not to break it in some way. Therefore it's for collection from Bethnal Green, Southwark, or East Beers. I could also deliver it via the magnificent Panzerwagen if you're not too far away.
Payment by cash please, or bank transfer if I know you.
Expressions of interest by the usual hotch-potch of posting, PMs, dibs etc.
Courtesy thread bumping, expressions of horror at the price, pleas to split, questions etc in the thread below.

is bluegoff your alter ego ?

I go under an assumed name to protect those around me.

Average speed of 30 MPH on a road bike around the isle of dogs. LOL

this is lovely. want want want.

Why, thank you. buy buy buy?

Average speed of 30 MPH on a road bike around the isle of dogs. LOL

The roads were all closed at the time.

One of the fastest Tour de France prologues ever and I think a similar distance to a lap around the isle of Dogs, was at was In the 2004 Tour, Fabian Cancellara, claimed the Prologue in 6 minutes and 51 seconds — an average speed of 33.22 mph. I would not be dispirited however because, as nice as your machine is, a modern time trail bike would give you a 10% advantage at least and also Fabian was probably on the gear so I think with a bit of training and a modern time trailing bike you could for certain win any grand tour prologue!

So what you're saying is that if Cancellara had been riding my bike then he could have gone even faster?
Well that's certainly good news for any potential buyer.

We had a dry day, only 5kms round that bit and people to draft. I found that times can be improved if you go drinking for 11 hours afterwards too.

Blue just to add lovely bike and I love you detailed description specially the details about average speeds and top speeds!
I've got to many otherwise I would be interested. Best of luck

Do you even Strava?

No.
Just a Sigma BC800 and a dream...

No, Bannaramma.

Robert De Niro's Waiting - Bananarama (Official Promo Video) High Quality - YouTube

lovely little bike but am going to egg you on to split it even thought it'd be a shame!
I am in need of some of your parts!

nice bicycle!

Thank you. I think so too.
I particularly like the expertly wrapped bar tape, and the pretty down tube shifters.

headtube looks very tall for a 54cm frame!

I just double checked.
That is measured along the seat tube from the centre of the BB to the approx centre of the top tube. It's about 56 cm centre to top.

The top tube length is actually a bit longer now I have measured it again, and its more like 55.5 centre to centre. That's bespoke frames for you.

I have edited the first post accordingly.

good price! Amazing bike, have seen it in flesh on the day bradley wiggins won gold in Olympics TT last year /csb

Ah, what a day that was.

Now then, roll up, roll up, who wants a lovely bike at a good price?

Price drop to £700

Hubs they are c record.....?

I'm not entirely sure.
They look like C Record, but whereas the 7 speed (definitely C Record) hubs have pointy bearing caps, the 8 speed ones have flat ones. Maybe this means they are Chorus, or maybe they changed it when they went to 8 speed or sometime after that.

Here's a pic of the rear hub
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluequinn/9641154606/sizes/l/in/set-72157635322731498/