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TeaNoSugar said:
I think it is a Brooks saddle. It has an embossed metal "Brooks" badge on the rear frame of the saddle...
I am not sure what you do for a living now, but if it doesn't work out, you surely have a successful career waiting for you as a Forensic Detective of some sort... 
walm said:
TeaNoSugar said:
I think it is a Brooks saddle. It has an embossed metal "Brooks" badge on the rear frame of the saddle...
I am not sure what you do for a living now, but if it doesn't work out, you surely have a successful career waiting for you as a Forensic Detective of some sort... TeaNoSugar said:
walm said:
TeaNoSugar said:
I think it is a Brooks saddle. It has an embossed metal "Brooks" badge on the rear frame of the saddle...
I am not sure what you do for a living now, but if it doesn't work out, you surely have a successful career waiting for you as a Forensic Detective of some sort... 
te out of your face, these wee things don't look like they would stop much?So a mate asked if I could work on this.......
After a ton of cleaning and swapping out the tyres, chain and BB all was better. The rear wheel spindle was orange and took a hammer to remove it, that was the level of decay. It was left outside for a good while, ages I'd say. The good thing is that although it was more than worn out nothing had been messed with very much. When everything was soaked in WD40 they gave up the fight and started working. Brakes, rear mech, head bearings, all of it. Groupo is a triple Sora and as per usual with Shimano it was a piece of piss to setup and shifted pretty ok.
So £100 later and we have this....
The only issue is stopping fiddling with it. It gets to the point when you may as well grab a s/h better spec part than chisel a bunch of crap off of something for the nth time.
Anyway. I enjoyed the process and it's great to rescue something which was a couple of steps away from a skip.
After a ton of cleaning and swapping out the tyres, chain and BB all was better. The rear wheel spindle was orange and took a hammer to remove it, that was the level of decay. It was left outside for a good while, ages I'd say. The good thing is that although it was more than worn out nothing had been messed with very much. When everything was soaked in WD40 they gave up the fight and started working. Brakes, rear mech, head bearings, all of it. Groupo is a triple Sora and as per usual with Shimano it was a piece of piss to setup and shifted pretty ok.
So £100 later and we have this....
The only issue is stopping fiddling with it. It gets to the point when you may as well grab a s/h better spec part than chisel a bunch of crap off of something for the nth time.
Anyway. I enjoyed the process and it's great to rescue something which was a couple of steps away from a skip.
Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 10th December 22:23
Hi there PHers, good to see some cyclists on here. I've not been riding as much as I'd like recently as I'm trying to get my master's thesis finished...
Here are my two anyway
Nukeproof Mega TR. Awesome trail bike, handles like a downhill bike but still goes up hill! Only had it about 6 months but looking pretty sorry for itself already (this photo isn't recent), as it's had a fair bit of abuse, including a trip to scotland where it got chucked down the likes of fort bill WC DH, dunkeld DH, inners DH and a number of other mental trails. Of course, the rider was more out of depth than the bike!
Saracen Hack 2, CX/gravel type bike, bought for fitness so I can race gravity enduro, also was hoping to get some proper tyres and race CX on it, but I'm way too skint and don't have time. Maybe after christmas. Cracking little bike anyway.
Here are my two anyway
Nukeproof Mega TR. Awesome trail bike, handles like a downhill bike but still goes up hill! Only had it about 6 months but looking pretty sorry for itself already (this photo isn't recent), as it's had a fair bit of abuse, including a trip to scotland where it got chucked down the likes of fort bill WC DH, dunkeld DH, inners DH and a number of other mental trails. Of course, the rider was more out of depth than the bike!
Saracen Hack 2, CX/gravel type bike, bought for fitness so I can race gravity enduro, also was hoping to get some proper tyres and race CX on it, but I'm way too skint and don't have time. Maybe after christmas. Cracking little bike anyway.
After the recent demise of my much-modified Pinnacle, its near-as-possible off the shelf replacement has arrived - a 2015 Scott YZ10 in a rather striking colour scheme, with matching V8 pedals and dual-compound 2.2 Halo Twin Rails.
It's amazing how taut it feels, how much better it rolls along and how wonderful it is to have obedient gears (the Pinnacle was due a major service for wheel bearings and new shifter cables/mechs), and if anything its even beefier and tougher! I am slightly less enamoured by the heavy, dead-feeling Suntour XCM forks though, but I suppose anything that is standard fitment on a bike in this price bracket is going to be a comedown after the fantastic Bomber Atoms I retrofitted to the Pinnacle. Of more urgent concern is the super-thinly-padded jump saddle currently fitted, which means after my first long ride on it today I have a rather sore arse. Tomorrow will see me in my LBS having a comfort saddle fitted!
It's amazing how taut it feels, how much better it rolls along and how wonderful it is to have obedient gears (the Pinnacle was due a major service for wheel bearings and new shifter cables/mechs), and if anything its even beefier and tougher! I am slightly less enamoured by the heavy, dead-feeling Suntour XCM forks though, but I suppose anything that is standard fitment on a bike in this price bracket is going to be a comedown after the fantastic Bomber Atoms I retrofitted to the Pinnacle. Of more urgent concern is the super-thinly-padded jump saddle currently fitted, which means after my first long ride on it today I have a rather sore arse. Tomorrow will see me in my LBS having a comfort saddle fitted!
Edited by ChemicalChaos on Sunday 14th December 00:51
TeaNoSugar said:
I've been thinking about getting a road bike for a while. Hopefully if I can get "bike-fit" I'll enter a duathlon next year, and the low-impact cross training might help with my running fitness without the risk of shin splints, and knee niggle.
Anyway I bought this bike, unseen, for 200 quid this week from a colleague of my Brother-in-law.
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It's called a Viner Dedalus. The guy selling it cn't remember when he bought it, or when he last used it, so I don't know what year it is, and I've taken it to my local bike shop for a service, but they said it's not really a mainstream brand and they hadn't seen many others in the past.
Does anyone know anything about Viner? Any good? I'm really not up to speed with road bikes. It's got shimano 105 gears and brakes, but other than that dont' know what else to say about it other than it feels light, it seems to run smoothly, everything works as it should but the gears could do with a bit of adjustment.
Google says the frame was over £1000 when new. You do realise how dodgy this sounds, right? You bought an expensive bike off someone who "cn't remember when he bought it, or when he last used it"?Anyway I bought this bike, unseen, for 200 quid this week from a colleague of my Brother-in-law.
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It's called a Viner Dedalus. The guy selling it cn't remember when he bought it, or when he last used it, so I don't know what year it is, and I've taken it to my local bike shop for a service, but they said it's not really a mainstream brand and they hadn't seen many others in the past.
Does anyone know anything about Viner? Any good? I'm really not up to speed with road bikes. It's got shimano 105 gears and brakes, but other than that dont' know what else to say about it other than it feels light, it seems to run smoothly, everything works as it should but the gears could do with a bit of adjustment.
DrMekon said:
Google says the frame was over £1000 when new. You do realise how dodgy this sounds, right? You bought an expensive bike off someone who "cn't remember when he bought it, or when he last used it"?
It does sound dodgy but I cant see how a alu frmae and carbon forks cost more than £1k new? I saw that same ad I think you are referencing and think the seller is having a bit of a laugh with the value or has confused it with another model. It looks like a 2010ish model, well spec'd too, came with Athena/Miche rims or 105/Fulcrms 5s from the look of it. And those spacers... its not just a snobbish "it looks gash" thing, its also a potential source of failure as you will, eventually, weaken the steerer tube by flexing the length of tube above the frame when out of the saddle, climbing etc
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