Haven’t posted anything in ‘post your ride’ for a while. Here’s my latest, an early 90’s Columbus Max Llewellyn which I’ve been riding for the last 6 weeks since building it up. Its been a slow burner project which start in late 2014. Crappy paint, cracked seat tube extension. Big shout out again to Dazza, Kumo & Simon who each chipped in to get this frame where it is today.
Super stoked with it. Been putting plenty of km’s on it since building it up, comfy fit for now. Will look at a longer stem in the near future & I’ve got some Rasta Paul Skewers on the way! Excuse the shitty backyard photos but you get the idea.
Frame: Llewellyn Columbus Max #82
54cm Seat C-C // 56cm Top C-C
Headset: Chris King Stem: Nitto Pearl Handlebars: Nitto M109 80 Road Bar Tape: Fabric ALM
Seatpost: Nitto Crystal Fellow Saddle: Fabric ALM
Bottom Bracket: White Industries Stainless Steel Cranks: White Industries VBC Chainring: VBC 52/36 Chain: KMC X11 EL Cassette: Campagnolo Chorus 12-29
Pedals: Speedplay Ti Cages: King Cage Stainless Steel
Wheelset: Stans - DT Swiss Aerolite - White Industries ‘H’ Series Rubber: Vittoria Open Corsa SC 23c [Will change to Graphene 25c soon]
Bro can’t express how much stance I was thinking this rig had after our lap the other day. Didn’t realise you got the fast back done to it… you’re ticking all my boxes. Such glitter, fucking Banga.
Modern cranks look like shit. Can get rad chainring combos with White Industries & they looking super nice, especially for this type of build.
Fastback seat stays. There is a binder bolt in the seat stays which pinches together and holds the seat post tight. Keith went above & beyond with it. He custom machined & brazed up the binder bolt set up in this frame.
Very careful milling operation after cutting off the ST extension to pierce the seatstays, then a custom turned boss was brazed in and a reinforcement cut and brazed on below the ST lug
Fantastic bike Gypsy. I agree that new Campy cranks would not look good on this (didn’t like them at first but warmed up to them a bit since I saw them in the flesh). I reckon old Campy would look good too, but the bike has zing/oomph in spades so the WI crankset looks excellent. I particularly like the mismatch of the silver cranks/black ring. Lucky man!
