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Haha, fantastic thread!

If you're wanting to learn more I'd recommend painting it yourself, building the wheels yourself and building and tuning the whole bike yourself. If you've got a stable of bikes and this one doesn't need going into action immediately I'd recommend taking a step back a little and researching the hell out of things before you buy anything.

I can understand what you're trying to achieve but simply spending a lot of money on some high quality parts isn't going to give you the education you are craving. Learning about tyre thicknesses and pressure, bottom-bracket fitments, bike fits and cable lengths and generally what things do and how they effect the finished product will teach you more. I've taken on mini weight-weenie projects before where I've stripped and drilled components and made modifications. There were guys running bikes 1/2 the weight of mine stock but I had a huge amount of fun modifying the parts and learnt a lot, I knew the bike like the back of my hand.

Don't worry that it's just a 501 frame, most bikes built with 501 have cheap and flexible cranks, bars and wheelsets which don't do them and favours, with all these parts replaced with quality modern parts you'll have a real nice bike.

A great source of information is Sheldon Brown's website.

All emails responded to - any questions or queries acknowledged and explained.

Wayne's frame has been finished and I'm in regular contact with him.

As it's my business people want to speak to me directly as I can use my experience and judgement on advising the best solution for a custom or concourse paint-job. I aim to respond to all emails the same day at james@noquarterbikes.co.uk which is my primary email address. Keeping up with other private messaging on social media sites and forums can take me a little longer to reply.

James

Hi all,

another one of my sale threads! Having a bit clear out and going to be making mini drivechain packages etc just so I can clear some space.

going on ebay soon

another £5 off

In need of getting this gone! Another £5 off

I'll most likely split so £420 for frame + forks

Wheel-set with tyres and tubes - £90
Chain-set - £120
Rear-mech - £45
Front mech - £15
Shifters - £130
Calipers - £50

I'd prefer to keep pedals, seat-post, bar + stem but I'm sure I could be persuaded to sell..

still here

Really nice! This needs a SP72 post and some sort of Japanese unicanitor saddle.

Willing to part-x for a winter hack

Games consoles.

My age group (early 20s) have just started to get nostalgic about games consoles and games with their Facebook posts. All the games look crap, I can't remember any of them because I was either out on my bike, playing with hair-spray and a lighter, building dangerous tree-houses etc. I had a PS2 once and it was crap.

Costa creamy-coolers, nowhere near as good as Starbucks.

'Shabby Chic' - possibly the worst design of vintage furniture car crashed with awful 'Keep Calm and Carry on' signs topped off with just the right amount of tasteless tat.

Paul Mccartney.

He was good back in the day but my god his new stuff is utter crap, when they wheeled him out at the Olympics I felt embarrassed for everyone.

Now splitting. After £425 for the frame + forks.

I'll be pricing up the rest of the parts fairly soon.

£765

£125 posted for my Gazelle

It's quite hard to get pics of the dent but here's what I've got. The sides of the dent are still flush with the rest of the frame so it's not 'kinked' as such. I've had a camera up the inside of the frame and it's all good from the inside.

I purchased the frame off a gentleman who had to replace this frame for his parter because he damaged his frame. A plank of wood was dropped from a couple of foot onto the top-tube when being stored in the garage.

Hi all,

really going to regret this but I've sadly got to let my CAAD go as my business needs to swallow the money up, promised myself this would be the bike I kept but other things comes first.

I searched high and low for this frame, it took me 6 months to get the one I wanted in this size. It's been built up by a professional mechanic. It's never been ridden in the wet and has always been kept in a dry, warm place. There are no corrosion issues, just a few chips to the paint from general use and a dent on the top-tube. It does have a little creak coming from cranks but after speaking with my mechanic apparently nearly all BB30 cranks have some sort of squeak.

Spec:

. 54cm CAAD10
. Sram force (I believe?) Chainset
. Sram red levers
. Sram Apex front mech
. Force rear mech
. Force calipers
. Jagwire cabling (the posh stuff, was expensive)
. KMC chain
. Shimano cassette
. Mavic Aksium front wheel
. Shimano rear, not sure on model
. GP4000 tyres
. Schwalbe innertubes
. Ritchey 90mm Stem
. Specialized 42cm compact drops
. Carbon saddle
. Selle saddle
. Ritchey bar-tape
. Alloy bottle-cages

Pedals not included

Bad points:
. Tyres could do with replacing, brake pads are 1/2 worn
. a few very small chips and scratches
. dent on the top-tube
. right-hand lever has worn a little so the paddle sits a few MM from the brake lever. Still functions perfectly.
. when I cut the steerer it's not 100% perfectly straight, could be filed/cut down maybe 1-2mm and it'll be perfect.

In summary a stunning bike which climbs like a beast. Super rigid.......ah forget it, everyone knows how awesome Caads are, I don't need to explain.

I'd like £770 for this please

£14 bottle cages
£9 look pedals
£24 helmet

Sorry, sold!

*** now for sale***
It's been quite a while since I updated this thread!

I'm going to be keeping this bike inside during the winter, in the process of building a winter beater.

A few months ago I was looking for a car project, something like a Mk1 Golf but I really don't have the time at the moment to take on a huge (and expensive) project, so I decided this bike is going to be my winter project and my 'main' project in general.

Since my last update I've ridden this bike roughly 30 miles a day 6 days a week so it's had a fair bit of use. My decision to take this off the road also came after the sheer amounts of corrosion infested frames I've recently had to strip and powder-coat, this ain't happening to my precious caad.

Bike is currently running very nice but I've given everything a good service and replaced any parts that needed it. I haven't touched the bottom-bracket because in all honesty BB30 is something I'd like to leave alone unless it desperately needs attention. Since my last update I've changed the wheels (currently Mavic Askium and Shimano rear.

I'm just going to chip away at getting this as good as it can be, here's my plans;

. fit matching innertubes
. fit Vittoria Open Corsa gumwall tyres
. replace rear gear cable for black one
. replace cable crimps with green or black
. paint the little red detail on the shifters green
. fit matching Zipp stem + seatpost
. fit matching alloy bottle-cages

I'm going for the uncluttered and any logos will be subtle, I love the black on black Zipp stems. I've destickered the rims and think they're quite a good match!

So far that's my plans. Wouldn't mind another wheel-set but something proper, possibly grey TB14s on some majorly skinny hubs, no sure which yet.

I think gum-walls will really transform this bike, it's crying out for them.

I'm also really unsure as to whether to remove the bike of it's safety warning stickers etc. Part of me says 'no, keep it OEM and original' where the other side says 'take them off, the frame will look a whole lot cleaner and simpler'

Hi all,

I purchased this lo-pro not that long ago with the intentions of repairing and repainting but I'm simply too busy to do anything with it so I'd like to sell it. The rear end has some damage, not exactly quite sure what's happened but it's not straight. Wheel still goes in fine and you can line it up straight but the rear-stays are obviously not straight. Where this frame has bent it's dented a small amount. I've checked the whole frame over and it's definitely not cracked.

I've admittedly never heard of the builders but it's definitely a quality frame.

Sizing is 57cm seat-tube and 55cm top-tube
700c rear
24 front

Paint-work is a little tatty but it's all there and a frame like this is rather rare so it's something a bit special. This frame is stupidly rad and I'd love to see it built up!

I'm asking for £130 posted for this please.

James

That S-works was aluminium.

We strip carbon frames a number of ways depending on the colours used (obviously blacks are the thinnest and whites are the thickest) but it's all done by hand, no chemicals.