{"id":238,"date":"2013-07-27T19:24:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T18:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2014-11-10T19:36:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T19:36:21","slug":"rory-obrien-track-bike","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/?page_id=238","title":{"rendered":"Rory O’Brien track bike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rory O’Brien track bike<\/p><\/div>\n

Rory O\u2019Brien Track iron, <\/b>bought 2nd<\/sup> hand from a club mate for about \u00a390, c1979, The frame itself was built towards the end of the 1950’s or early ’60s quite possibly built by Les Ephgrave.. I first bought it when I went to Uni in London with a view to riding Paddington track. In the end I didn’t do very much but it has also been round Palmer Park (Reading) and\u00a0\u00a0Saffron Lane (Leicester). After that it did a few time trials, then languished in my garage for about 20 years before seeing the light as a commuter for a few months. After I ran out of old tubs it went back to the back of the garage until I found some reasonable wheels with HP rims for it on ebay. Now with a 63″ gear it is my ride of choice for day trips up to 50 miles. Not done a seriously hilly ride on it yet though.<\/p>\n

Update: Completed my first 200km audax on it, the rather hilly Rutland Ramble in August 2013.<\/p>\n

Now stripped for a respray (April 2014) I took advantage of it’s nakedness to weigh it. Frame: 2044g – forks: 788g.<\/p>\n

Frame: Steel Reynolds 531 tubing.<\/p>\n

Current wheels: Mavic CXP22 on Ambrosio track hubs. Harry Rowland wheels bought from ebay for \u00a380. Michelin Pro3 Race 700×23 tyres 116psi.<\/p>\n

Saddle: Gilles Berthould Souldor<\/p>\n

Bars and stem: Cinelli\u00a064-42 bars and Cinelli XA\u00a0115 mm stem<\/p>\n

Front brake calliper: GB Coureur Plus<\/p>\n

Brake levers: Campag C-Record aero levers (c1991\u20134)<\/p>\n

Pedals:\u00a0Shimano PD-M540 SPD<\/p>\n

Stronglight 49D chainset with 48T chainring.<\/p>\n

Two frame numbers on bottom Bracket:<\/p>\n

139<\/p>\n

181\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8043<\/p>\n

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In TT mode<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rory O\u2019Brien Track iron, bought 2nd hand from a club mate for about \u00a390, c1979, The frame itself was built towards the end of the 1950’s or early ’60s quite possibly built by Les Ephgrave.. I first bought it when I went to Uni in London with a view to riding Paddington track. In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":241,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-238","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions\/841"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}