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Rich_W
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newbieweenie
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by newbieweenie

Did you piece the frame together yourself or did Litespeed do that for you. You must be one tall MoFo, cuz man that bike is HUGE :shock:

newbieweenie
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by newbieweenie

Wow. SO you weld? I wish I could do stuff like that. Nice looking ride though. Very nice keeping it under 15 lbs with such a large frame.

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Boonen
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by Boonen

nice bike you got there!
Maybe you could 'tune' it a bit with some more gold bolts etc. to complement the golden headset in the future? I think it looks a little lonely as the only golden component :wink:
I like it you took off the stickers on your wheels.
Are the bottlecages so low on purpose? I have this on one of my bike's and always have to adjust to it when switching bikes, for me it is pretty anoying, but hopefully it won't bother you.

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asphaltdude
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newbieweenie wrote:Did you piece the frame together yourself or did Litespeed do that for you. You must be one tall MoFo, cuz man that bike is HUGE :shock:


My bike is a 63 C-T :oops:
Whow! That's a pretty damn nice garage door!

bikemesenger
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Location: Arizona

by bikemesenger

Here is a picture of a frame I had that was a mixture of Litespeed tubes.

Top tube- Vortex
Down tube- Ultimate
Head tube- Ghisallo
Seat tube- Butted and ten sided Vortex
Chainstays- Vortex
Seatstays- 04 bladed Vortex
Dropouts- Ghisallo
BB shell- Ghisallo
Weight- 2.88 lbs.
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Dellucci
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by Dellucci

Oh man THAT IS A NICE BIKE........I envy you ...........
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HXTi
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by HXTi

Great looking bike there and yes that is one large frame. I agree that you should throw on some more "mango" somewhere on the frame.....if you're bored. :)

bikemesenger,
I never knew litespeed would make a frame with such an eclectic set of tubes. What percent slope is that on your frame? It looks like 4%. It looks great.....I like how the stem flows with the TT.

bikemesenger
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by bikemesenger

Not many people know that Litespeed will make anything you want for a price. I had that frame made while I worked there but I saw some crazy frames go through the custom shop. Most of them were cool but there were a few that you just wondered what were they thinking.

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by bikemesenger

The stem is a section of Vortex top tube welded into a stem.

farva
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by farva

Sweet bike. You're "Backup" is 10x nicer than my good bike.

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Pantani
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by Pantani

Maybe you should call it a Cortex - you could go into competition with Cervelo

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