I was just sent this cool Campy tech pamphlet on the 2011 Gruppos. If you are a true Geek, you’ll love this. It highlights a lot of the features of the kit that could easily go unnoticed. In recent years Campy has lost a lot of ground to Shimano and Sram and it appears as though they are working very hard to get back on top of the heap. I  haven’t seen any of the 2011 stuff yet but it will be shipping soon and I look forward to hanging it on some bikes. Also, believe it or not, Campy prices have actually gone down. You can see my Campy build kit prices here.

2011 Campagnolo Range

Here is a killer steel frame I just finished up for Dave G., a fireman out of California. I actually built almost this identical frame for him about 10 years ago. He sold the original and never found anything he liked as well so we built him another. It’s built with Columbus Mega toptube and downtube, along with Life stays and an externally butted seatube. It has a fairly average length but a very tall headtube. Dave is a tall guy but mostly inseam. The frame will be built up with a Sram Red and custom King R45/DT wheels. It’s also getting a really cool paint job.

I’m just finishing up Peter M’s titanium road frame. He’ll be here Tuesday to pick it up so we’ll media blast and wax it today, assemble tomorrow and have it all shined up and ready roll on Tuesday. Peter lives in Sun Valley but his daughter is married to a long time friend and riding partner of mine so he makes it to town pretty regularly. This is his second Strong frames, the fist was a steel frame that he uses more for touring.

And for the record Scott M. if you happen to the notice the Roush/Fenway calender in the background, don’t take it personally, it just showed up in the mail, I’m an RCR guy now

I thought I’d post some pictures from my trip to Bonneville. The #60 car is the car I was with and it set it’s fourth record. It had a great first run but blew the head gasket and there wasn’t much they could do to fix it. It’s been a recurring problem and the fix will be some major block and head modifications. For their backup run they “Mickey Moused” the head as much as they could and ran the water right out of it. They managed to run 10 miles an hour slower than the first run which was enough for the record.

All in all the weekend was a ton of fun and there were a lot of cool cars and cool people. Rat Rods are the style de jour right now so you don’t see a lot of shiny paint. Just a bunch of rusty chopped and channeled cars with Flatheads. Another fun part of the event is pit bikes…er wagons, bar stools and anything else you can imagine. We also saw a lot of cool old bikes and one in particular was an aluminum frame that had cast aluminum lugs and stays bonded to extruded aluminum main tubes, very cool.

I’ve built myself a new frame and now have to part with my beloved frame of the last three years. Sale includes the following:

Frame geometry:

• TT effective 57 center to center
• ST 59 center to top
• Heatube length 170
• Toptube angle 3 degrees
• STA 73 / HTA 73
• Chainstay length 415
• Bottom Bracket Drop 80mm

Frame Features:

• Extralite S3 front triangle Reynolds 953 rear triangle
• Internal brake cable
• Front derailleur hanger
• Pump Peg
• Custom panel paint job
• One of a kind prototype dropouts

Also includes:

• King Sotto Voce headset
• Ritchey 120mm stem
• Ouzo Pro fork
• Control Tech carbon cranks and BB
• Ritchey WCS carbon post

Frame price alone would be $2550, fork $350, headset $135, seapost $199, Cranks I don’t know but will guess around $300.

Total retail cost $3534

Sale Price $1500

plus shipping

These parts have pretty low miles,  I ride a lot of different bikes so my guess would be under 1000 miles. Condition of everything but the cranks is excellent. Crank extractor bolt threads are stripped on one side. Because the dropouts are prototype the threads for the derailleur are rough but work fine. You also have to remove the skewer nut on the drive side in order the clear the derailleur when removing the wheel.

Sale Price $1500 first come first served. Call or email if you have questions. Thanks!