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@clipon
ahhhh done. Yeah thanks for storing at the bottom of a canal @f1s!
Steerer thread was fucked, fucked up a nice campag headset trying to get it on and Tom found a tall stack and put spacers over the buggered threads, genius! Took me two days of bafflement and having to resort to several prayers to Jah and he fixed it this morning.... anyway that's why the headset is a bit weird
bb threads were quite fucked up. cycleps is a real bike shop that have a tool that sorts all that out.
Built the wheels last week and bolted the rest on today. Saddle is obviously also horrible on this bike as well as the Rossin, but she will have to choose her own, likewise with pedals, the overlap is hilarious without adding unnecessary cages to the mix.
I rode it around it for a bit, singlespeed bikes are fucking confusing if you're used to fixed and I looked like a clown but it all seemed very nice. Still a really decent frame.
Tomorrow I will put a fixed cog on and do skids and then find and fit the rear brake and give it to her.