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Anybody in the market for their first road frame?

James

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Sep 11, 2001
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Ok, so here's another one of my "Free* Stuff" threads...I'll be doing a couple of more of these in the next week or so, I'm cleaning some closets and boxes out, and I won't be eBaying everything, so keep your eyes peeled.

*"Free" meaning I do ask for a little bribe, can you blame me? :)

I have a carbon fiber Concorde road frame here, it's an older model, probably 5-7 years old if I had to guess, it's never been built or ridden, but has been sitting around for a while. First in our Monterey warehouse, then moving to Nevada, so there are some scratches, scuffs, blems, etc, but nothing at all that would threaten the integrity of the frame.

Construction method is carbon tubes, alloy lugs, with a multi-shaped, pseudo-areo downtube. I think the headtube is one big lug too.
I'm not sure what size it is, but I did some measuring, and those numbers are below. I don't have a seatpost collar, but it's just a standard size, 35mm I think. Seatpost diameter is 31.6mm, and I do have an FSA SL-280 seatpost in black-ano with 20mm setback I'll include.

I also don't have a headset, it's internal, and my guess is that it's a standard one, with the 45* bearings below, and the 30* top, but don't take my word for it. A good shop should be able to measure it out for you.
BB is 68mm English thread, so nothing weird there. Dropout spacing is 130mm of course. Oh, and I also have a rear wheel I'll include, an older Shimano 105 hub built onto a Mavic CXP22 rim, 32 hole 3-cross, with a Shimano 105 cassette, 12-25 I believe. Cassette and wheel are a bit older, but I haven't used them in 3+ years, the cassette still has a whole bunch of miles left. Front derailleur is a braze-on, and I have an adapter I'll include.

I was planning on giving this to my buddy for his first road bike, but I think it's going to be too big for him, so his loss is hopefully your gain. It'd make a pretty nice first road bike for someone, or maybe a secondary commuter/bad conditions bike so you don't trash your good one.

Now to the asterisk part: I'm not looking to make any money off of this, as I didn't really pay too much for it when I got it a while back, but I would kind of like something for it. I was thinking maybe an 4gb iPod Nano, they're like $150 or so, and that's a pretty good deal for a carbon road frame I think. I'll pay to ship it anywhere in the continental US, sorry Alaska/Hawaii and the rest of the world...

Here are the measurements:
Seat Tube: 57.5mm center to top of the seattube.
Top Tube: 57cm measured along the tube, not sure what the virtual would be.
Head Tube: 19cm bottom to top (duh!)

If I had to guess, and this isn't carved in stone, but I'd say someone 5'9 - 5'11" or so would be about right, maybe a bit taller if you didn't want too long of a TT.

So I guess the first person to respond saying they want it and is will to do a trade gets it. But here's the important thing: Don't get it to sit on it forever, or sell it in 2 months, please only request it if you really do plan on putting it together and putting some miles in. Reply to this post with any questions!










 

ire

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Aug 6, 2007
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If it was smaller I would snag it for the wife. What is your Ebay ID?
 
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maddog17

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Jan 20, 2008
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didn't know Concorde was still in business!! must resist temptation to do the deal especially since i've been trying to sell my steel Concorde now for awhile. if that was in PDM paint scheme i'd be all over it like white on rice!!!
 

James

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Sep 11, 2001
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didn't know Concorde was still in business!! must resist temptation to do the deal especially since i've been trying to sell my steel Concorde now for awhile. if that was in PDM paint scheme i'd be all over it like white on rice!!!
Oh yeah, they are, alive and kicking over in Europe. Check out this model I got a little while back.
 

maddog17

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Jan 20, 2008
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Oh yeah, they are, alive and kicking over in Europe. Check out this model I got a little while back.
i like the paint job! not your usual run of the mill red/black or black/white. are they still considered a Dutch company or did they go full Italian. that's the way they used to be when i got my PDM frame.
 

James

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Sep 11, 2001
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i like the paint job! not your usual run of the mill red/black or black/white. are they still considered a Dutch company or did they go full Italian. that's the way they used to be when i got my PDM frame.
They're Dutch, based out of our offices in Benelux. That paintjob is the Granfondo team colorway, pretty cool actually. The frame is neat: integrated BB, a lot of cool carbon touches, not too shabby. Not sure if it's going into production for '09 though.
 

maddog17

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Jan 20, 2008
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Methuen, Mass. U.S.A.
They're Dutch, based out of our offices in Benelux. That paintjob is the Granfondo team colorway, pretty cool actually. The frame is neat: integrated BB, a lot of cool carbon touches, not too shabby. Not sure if it's going into production for '09 though.
ok, then i'll just have to take yours!! :happydance::brows:

hopefully it's a 58/57.5
 

yuroshek

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Jun 26, 2007
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what color nano would you prefer? haha jk your the man for doing stuff like this. karma will come to you. just sit and wait.