Richie’s been after a nice roadie for some time now. Doing up the old Oxford I found on the side of the road got the ball rolling, then we decided to bid on a nice 80’s bike on eBay but we lost it at $405.
I asked Grant at MC Cyclery to help out, and turns out he had an 06 TCR in the store room. Story goes that a customer put a deposit on it, but never paid it off so considering it was so many years ago now Grant was willing to let Richie have it for a steal.
We checked out the bike today, it’s got full 105 componentry on it which really hasn’t changed at all over the years. A full aluminium frame and carbon forks and in Richie’s size too. Richie loved the colours, and just had to have it, pedals and shoes were chucked into the deal and Richie’s one happy camper!
The bike.
One little pedal in the carpark and Richie was in awe at how fast the thing is!
In other news, head mechanic at MCC Ash made this bike for his girlfriend Mel’s B’day. How amazing is it? Click here for more details.
And I found this cracked carbon Scott Ransom frame in the bin at MCC.
Sad, but it’s now up on my wall as art :)