2008 Giant SCR Saru-kun's Special

About a month or three ago, I was in the market for a road bicycle. You know, them things with the weird looking bent down handlebars? Yahah so anyways, I gave up looking for one when there was none with the specs I wanted at a price ceiling of £450.

A few weeks later, this turned up on Ebay, at a price too good to resist:

£129.99 lighter in the wallet, the frame duly arrived 3 days later. A piece of paper was whipped out of thin air and a list of the parts needed to build a bike was made up. Back then, I was torn between either mixing and matching bits and pieces or going for a complete groupset. In the end I decided to bite the bullet and go for the all singing and dancing Shimano 105 10-speed group, which was released about 2 - 3 years ago.

Initially, the plan was to buy the bits one by one over a few months to lighten the financial load. I also enlisted the help of the BFF who was back in Malaysia then to help me purchase the groupset as it was cheaper. That, sadly, fell through the roof and crashed many many floors down, much to my dismay.

Hence a new budget was set at £600 with the aim of building it to be under 8kg. Parts were then purchased from CRC, Wiggle and numerous other online vendors as well as the good people at rock&road , addiktioncycles and Birmingham City Cycles.

Much to my dismay once more, it shot the budget roof by £189.77. I haven’t weighed it yet, but it feels to be under 10 kilos. Which is abit of a good news. It was supposed to have had its maiden ride last Saturday but yours truly decided to lie in and die on the bed because it was cold outside. Sniffle.

The spec list is as follows:

• 2008 Giant SCR4 frame – 46cm
• Brand X aero carbon wrap front fork
• Shimano 105 BR5600 front brake and Shimano R650 rear brake
• Shimano 105 10-speed gear levers 5600
• Shimano 105 10-speed front and rear derailleurs
• Shimano 105 10-speed 12-25 cassette
• Shimano R700 crankset 34-50 (170mm)
• Shimano 105 Hollowtech II bottom bracket
• KMC 10-speed chain
• Shimano Dura-Ace shifter and brake cables
• PRO PLT stem, 80mm 10º, silver
• PRO PLT drop bar, 42cm width, silver
• PRO PLT seatpost, 27.2 x 280mm, silver
• PRO bartape – Floral Baby Blue
• Charge Ladle Ladies saddle, black with baby blue trims
• Shimano RS10 wheelset, black
• Shimano A515 SPD pedals, metallic baby blue
• Vittoria Rubino Tech Pro 120 TPI tyres and inner tubes

Meow.