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Pains me to sell it as it's a brilliant CX race bike but I'm just not using this enough to warrant keeping it. I'm lucky enough to have another CX bike that I use quite a lot, but this is kept for racing and Sunday best. But in the 2 1/2 years I've owned this I've raced 4 or 5 London summer series races and a couple of winter events (I don't like racing in filth). The gift of Strava says I've ridden this for 1400 miles in total, but the vast majority of this will be the fine weather local bridleway/road mixed terrain bashing that I enjoy most. So it's used, but in good nick and a very effective race tool if that's what you're after, or a bloody versatile all rounder too.

The wheels have probably only been used for 300 miles as I replaced them with some blingy ones fairly shortly after I got it. TBH I was disappointed with the total lack of difference the wheel swap made, which tells me that these Giant wheels are pretty damn good. As you'd expect really from what was a £3k bike new.

I've switched the CX chainrings for a 40T RaceFace NW 1x ring which works really well. I left the front mech on to provide some chain retention duties and it also keeps the front brifter from flapping about as I left the cable in too. Just adjusted the mech so it doesn't move. Easy to convert back to a double if you want.

Great clearance in the frame and fork (see pics). This thing is fast and very capable off road. It will be missed.

Tyres are the excellent Challenge Almanzo 700x35c numbers. Ideal for the fast hard packed conditions I favour and quick on the road too. Saddle is a Specialized Toupe 143, ti rails. Otherwise it's as out the box specification, apart from the RF chainring: (SRAM hydro 10 speed set up, Rotor cranks, Giant's finest CX carbon frame and full carbon fork with 15mm thru axle).

Obviously it's an off road bike, so there are signs of use in those hard to reach spots, but generally it's in great condition and working order. The bad bits: the saddle rails must be slightly twisted as the saddle droops slightly to the left (not that I've ever noticed riding it) and once I found myself having to climb a high gate at a dead end in a field and had to stand on the top tube to climb down which has taken a small bite from the top coat lacquer (see pic). That was 18 months ago and it's been all good since. No pedals.

Sad times, but I just use my steel All City Macho Man more, so this needs a new home in exchange for £1150. Collection from West Malling, Kent.

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Long overdue sort out in the garage = clear out of items I've been hoarding that someone else might as well be getting use from:

Campagnolo Record hubs on Mavic Open Pro rims. 99% sure these are the Record “Titanium” model. 28H front and rear. Includes the excellent Record skewers (the best skewers out there in my opinion). Accepts 9, 10 and 11 speed Campag cassettes. £150, collection from West Malling, Kent. These Record hubs often fetch big money on their own, so consider the wheels as a bonus :0)

Campagnolo Chorus hubs on Mavic Open Pro ceramic rims. 32H front and rear. Includes the (also excellent) Chorus skewers. Accepts 9, 10 and 11 speed Campag cassettes. Ceramic braking surface quite pitted but useable. Sapim CX Ray spokes. £120 collected from West Malling. Like the Record hubs, these Chorus ones fetch good money on their own, so consider the fact that they’re in wheel guise as a bonus ;0)

3T ARX-PRO stem. 100mm, 6 degree, ti bolts. £20 posted.

Raceface Narrow Wide 36T 1x chainring for 4 bolt 104bcd. 9/10/11 speed. £20 posted.

100mm 15mm thru 32h splined disc hub. £10 posted.

Bontrager AT-850 29er disc wheels. Came with my Trek Superfly, but I swapped them out for some blingy wheels very soon after I bought the bike. Have been sitting redundant in the garage for a couple of years since so someone might as well get some use. 100mm 15mm thru front, 135mm QR rear. Includes a 11-36t Shimano 10 speed cassette, 180mm front splined rotor and 160mm splined rear rotor but no skewer for the rear. Very good condition, removed the stickers from one side of each rim which has left a sticker residue which I can’t be arsed to spend the time cleaning off as I’ve not been using them. Would be easy to remove the other side and clean the rim with alcohol if you wanted to. £25 collected from West Malling.

SRAM Powerglide 53/39 130bcd 10spd chainrings. From Rival chainset. Very little use from new before swapping to oval ones. £20 posted.

Giant Overdrive SLR OD2 carbon stem. 100mm 8 degree. For Giant (and some Canyon I think) 1 1/4” steerers, but includes a shim for 1 1/8” too. Light and very stiff. Removed from a new bike before I’d used it as I needed a different length, so it’s basically new. £50 posted. This one: http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Giant-Contact-SLR-OD2-Stem-Includes-shim-for-1-1-8-fork-_74811.htm

Chris King Press Fit 24 MTB bottom bracket, red. Bought this for use with XT cranks on my MTB but bloody Trek have some proprietary lip on their PF95 frames that prevents you from fitting anything but their BBs! Bloody annoying as I bought this and it doesn’t fit. Basically it’s brand harry spankers. £70 posted.

Rockshox Reba 100mm 29er fork. 15mm thru "Maxle". External rebound and compression damping adjustment. Air spring so highly tuneable. I upgraded (in my opinion) from a remote (handlebar mounted) lock out to a lock out dial on the top of the fork leg (Fishers, the Rockshox importer did this) as I didn’t like the extra cable. I’ve been running a rigid fork on my Trek for a while so this is sitting redundant. Worked perfectly when I removed it. G2 geo so best matched to a Trek G2 adjusted frame, but I’d guess would be fine on all 29er 100mm hard tails. Bit grubby from usual use off road but works a treat. 1 1/8” straight steerer (which surprised me when I removed it as it came from a tapered head tube bike), just needs an appropriate headset to run in a tapered frame. 145mm of steerer above the crown race. £60 collected from West Malling.

Selle SMP Evolution saddle. This is the only saddle I’ve used that didn’t send my plumbs numb during my TTing days. Bought this for a short lived return to TTing but only did a handful of races before losing interest again. So it’s not seen much action at all. Paid £165 for it from CRC. £75 posted.

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Resurrected my serotta with better wheels and a nicer groupset again. Rides like an absolute dream.

Very very nice. Sadly not my size. GLWS.

I'm loving this bike more and more, the more I ride it. @853Superfly get one!

https://www.strava.com/activities/923414692

https://youtu.be/p_ESW0lq6uU

Reminds me of this....

https://youtu.be/aAX8pyioL-U

Actually if it had a bottle cage mount or two it would be a perfect road fixed. Perfect for short blasts that I mainly do on it. I have a (heinous) rear saddle double bottle mount thingy that I'll use for longer rides on it. And yeah 48x18 for climby days, 48x14 for flatter stuff.

It looks good, but the ride is superb. Planted and comfortable, yet surprisingly spritely. As a fixed road bike it's just about perfect, for me at least.

Slotted in the matching wheel in today with its 18t sprocket for some hill repeats. I really can't recommend this frameset enough.

My LBS actually built it for me. I did handle the frameset before it was assembled but didn't remember a bung. I'd thought I'd double check with the mechanic and he confirmed that the brake hole was unbunged and ready for the brake. In fact it even came with its own brake bolt as the fork is quite deep. The frame isn't drilled for a brake though.