Raid My Stable: four bikes for sale

[maxcr]

Hi Everyone,

I'm taking a page from Bill's book and will offer up a few bikes to see what sells first.

These are all fancy bikes with fancy parts that I have painstakingly chosen and installed. I hope someone gets to love them as much as I have. I have enjoyed building (most of them) and riding all of them but with another family member on the way, the time has come to sell a couple of bikes:

Prices are net to me or for pickup in Boston, MA (so please consider packing and shipping which is typically $185 + $250)

1. Red Wilbury 60cm, $2,400 -  you may have seen the fs post here but here with a lower price
2. Orange Ram 60cm, $2,500 - recently converted to 650b with Mafac RAID brakes and SKS fenders, you may remember the fs post here $2,500 (It now has a fancy Pacenti brevet wheelset on new Hetres tires and a SON dynohub plus Edeluxe ii light. Black White Industries 170 crank) - this one is ready for some serious rando or even PBP :)
3. Cobalt Blue Quickbeam prototype (caliper brakes) 60cm $3,500 - built by Curt Goodrich and painted by Joe Bell (the paint is out of this world with an amazing sparkle in the sun).
   
   I recently acquired this one and I've gone crazy putting together the build kit for it (won't sell any parts while I have the bike): 
   
   - Frame: great shape with few minor scratches form storage and one small chip.
   - Headset: new grip2nut installed by Peter White
   - Wheelset: Rivvy phil hubs with RH Bon Jon Pass tires built by Rich Lesnik
   - Rear Cog: 16/19 White Industries DOS (unobtanium)
   - Cranks: Ritchey Logic 175 crankset and a 38T Fat Slim Chainring from Blue Lug (I can also swap for a new White Industries double chainring 38/35 with WI cranks for $$)
   - new IRD QB95 BB 
   - Brakes: used Paul Racers
   - Seatpost: lugged Nitto seatpost
   - Cockpit: TBD was considering an Albatross which is what I currently installed to test ride around the block, but might use a Noodle instead which I think suits it better.
   
   Seat Tube: Center to Center 60cm, Center to Top 62cm
   Recommended PBH: 87 to 89cm
   Stand Over: 84.9cm
   HT Angle: 72.5 Deg.
   ST Angle: 72 Deg.
   Top Tube Slope: 2 Deg.
   Effective Top Tube: 59cm
   Chain Stay: 44.5 cm
   Rear Hub Spacing: 120mm
   Stack: 591.4mm
   Reach: 388.2mm
   Wheel Size: 622/700c
   Max Width Tire: 37c
   
   
   
4. Crust Lightning Bolt XL, $3,500. Champagne with the new Gran Trajet Fork Crown which suits a 48b tire perfectly, and will fit 42s with fenders.
   - Headset: crust palm
   - Wheelset: Polished velocity quill with bitex hubs built by Analog Cycles on RH Babyshoe pass tires
   - Fenders: hammered honjo special long edition gb650ml
   - Front rack: Nitto 32F
   - Cassette: 11-34 XT M760
   - Cranks: Rene Herse 48/33 (these wobble - need to figure out what's going on)
   - SKF
   - Brakes: RH Canti
   - Seatpost: Nitto seatpost
   - Cockpit: Shorty stem with 46 Nitto Noddle and TRP Brake Levers
   - Shifters: Dura Ace Downtube Shifters 7700 (were NOS)
   - FD Durace
   - RD Duraace 7800 GS long cage
   - 9 speed connex chain
   - Bags X Bird Goldback V2, medium bush brown waxed canvas

Let me know what questions you have or if you're interested in one of the bikes!

Max

Somerville, MA

PS. If none of these sell, the next one up will be the Rosco Bubbe Medium Mountain Mixte, although I really want to keep that one for now.

Some pics for fun (I don't have good pictures of the quickbeam or the LB):

Quickbeam

[J J]

Max’s collection is a treasure trove, and the fire‑engine red Wilbury is in a class of its own. I’ve seen it firsthand—it’s every bit as stunning as the photo Max posted suggests, if not more. Size 60 Wilbury/Glorius frames are rare enough; finding one in this condition is almost unheard of. For a frame of this pedigree and beauty, with such a high‑end build, and at this price, it’s an opportunity that won’t come around often. Wilbury/Glorius frames are incredibly special.

All of these bikes and builds are fantastic. Were I not already at peak N+1 at the moment, I’d be seriously tempted to take one home myself.

Jim

[Ryan]

OMG...have to say the blue prototype QB is stunning! Not my size , of course.I'd love to see what some lucky buyer does with it.

[maxcr]

Thanks Ryan, it's a really special bike - you have to see it in person, that blue paint is something else and the details that Joe Bell did across the frame are amazing. I weighed it at 22lbs which makes it my lightest build too... I wasn't even trying but I guess a single speed is lighter by default.

Max

[Ryan]

Still have my 2001 CG/JB Mustard road bike...so definitely appreciate stellar workmanship. But...I love that dark blue 

I also appreciate your curated collection that I've seen from time to time...don't you feel a slight pang about releasing some of these bikes ?

[Bill Lindsay]

I definitely want that Wilbury, but I may need to make 10 bikes go away before I take another one in.  That or buy a bigger house.  

BL in EC

[maxcr]

It's never easy to let a bike go. Each one has its story. There's some real emotional investment that comes with every purchase, from the moment you look at the bike to making the decision to buy. I go through a lot of iterations and dreams of the ways in which it will be used and how it fits in my stable and my life. Then there are the many hours of research into the bike, the geo, the fit, the history from the readers, the blahg, the wayback machine, rbw etc. as well as the curation and hunt for parts to make it my own.

The strange thing is that for me it's always harder to hit publish on that for-sale message than it is to actually sell the bike. Maybe it's because that's when you realize you will let them go? Anyway, for a while I had a AHH and a Hillborne (plus my Hunq) and I wanted to sell one but couldn't get myself to choose which one. Eventually both sold and here I am, happy and with many (8) amazing bikes in my basement that have filled the void. So the suffering is just imaginary, it's ok. It'll be ok even if I have to go down to one. One is all I need to... just ride.

Anyway back to selling, I keep reminding myself of my other bikes which I love. Also, I do get some amount of satisfaction when they go to someone who I know will love them, ride them and enjoy them as much as I do. For me, the best sales of bikes, frames or parts have been to friends and list members because I get to see the bike throughout the years and how it's used out in the world! 

Which brings us to the Wilbury. Bill - let me know what you want to do, I would love for that frame to end up in your hands! I can happily hold it for as long as you want. (If you're serious, DM me)

Best,

Max

[Minh]

I love my QB, but I think its very ungenerous to call that bike also a quickbeam!   its a beautiful expression of what  a no expense spared single speed rivendell could be.  the willbury is the bargain in the bunch though....

[maxcr]

Thanks Minh, here are a couple more photos (from the seller) for the 'custom' Quickbeam and I promise to post the fully built bike soon, it looks even better as a fully assembled bike:

[Tom Goodmann]

And in addition to all of its other qualities, what a head badge!

[Ryan]

Yes, please,  Max...I'd love to see that lovely blue QB built up. I always enjoy seeing and reading about how you (and Bill L. who I hope is back on the road) design your builds.

[Corwin Zechar]

That's the same head badge originally affixed to all Quickbeams.

I agree the head badge on this bike is stunning. But after looking at my own Quickbeam, I think the aspect that really sets this one off is the cream head tube. Most of the other Quickbeams have green, orange or silver head tubes.

Regards,

Corwin

[maxcr]

Thank you Ryan. Here are a couple of pics I took this afternoon. Please disregard the pedals and cockpit, it's what I had handy to do a quick test ride but they should be swapped.

Max

[Jason Glenn]

Just want to second J J's endorsement.  I have seen and ridden all but the Quickbeam.  They're amazing!!!  The builds are great (and done with love).  Wish I could justify getting one or two of them, but not right now.  I'm sure they'll find a happy home...

And congratulations on the new family member to come!

[thomasl...@comcast.net]

As much to myself as anyone else: I am not buying that Wilbury. I am not. No.

It's not the right time. I don't have the room. I haven't been riding enough. It can't swap brakes with my Hillborne.

Repeat as needed 'til Wilbury fever breaks. Call doctor Monday if no relief.

Yours,

Thomas Lynn Skean

[maxcr]

Hi Everyone,

I just had my second (and last) incident with shipping bikes, so effective now the bikes listed above for sale are only available for local pick up in/near Boston, MA. Apologies for anyone who was thinking of buying one and hoping to have them shipped but I won't do that again.

Best,

Max

PS. I don't have a LBS to recommend.

[Bill Lindsay]

Bummer that.  I have not given up on trying to figure out a way to grabby grab that Wilbury!  Machinations are in motion!

BL reaching very long grabby hands in EC

[Tom Goodmann]

A case of Wilbury fever here too, so I am looking away from the cause as the only cure.  

Very sorry to learn of shipping woes, Max; I've had some too and have been mystified and angry with the carelessness of carriers. With shipping prices as high as they are, it'd be nice for the services to be reliable.

Tom

Atlanta (headed to the Midwest by 9/1)

[Michael Monti]

Curious what the chainstay length is on this 60cm Wilbury. 

 I love my 58cm Saluki with drops and its 44.5 cm chainstays and my 55cm Cheviot as an upright with bosco bars is so stable with 50cm chainstays.  Im guessing this mid lineage steed is somewhere in between two of my all time favorites.

[maxcr]

Thanks Tom, it is very disappointing to say the least.

I also wanted to close this thread, the bikes above are no longer for sale. Apologies for anyone who was excited to buy any of them, but after almost two weeks, I've decided to keep them all for another season at least.

Thanks

Max

[Ryan]

Max..I am glad you are keeping that unicorn QB...if it were me, I wouldn't let that one go. It's special!