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This is extremely exciting news Jon!
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I enjoyed that
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Ha ha! Damn right. I'm all about the eyerolls!
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Glad to hear I'm not the only one struggling with this stuff!
Annoyingly, it appears that I've snipped the cables for the rear light clean off my front light... so I probably need to buy a new front light as well.
The range of B&M front lights that have almost exactly the same names (but have minutely differing functions) is the most dyslexia-inducing nonsense I've ever come across, and is giving the research I did about wiring systems a real run for it's money... Peter White is the only man on earth who appears to have got his head around it all. He needs to get out more, but I'm happy he doesn't.
On the plus side, I now have a front light for Josephine, and therefore a legitimate excuse to start thinking about shiny new dynamo wheels.
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In other news, I got the wheels back from Arup the other day and that seems to have solved the problem with the brake pads rubbing on the underside of the tyres. Also, for anyone struggling to set-up cantilever brakes, everyone's favourite moustachioed Park Tools guy has done a completely life-changing video on how to do it right... Why didn't I just watch this years ago?!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_tDym0G6zo
I also managed to score a new stem: An ever-so-slightly battered 80mm Cinelli 1A, only a tenner on facebook. Luckily it is 26.0 : ) Will try and get the Salsa stem sorted at some point but this seemed like an easy fix for the meantime.
Finished the build yesterday but haven't taken photos, and now it's dark again.
Maybe I should wait til I've wired the rear light and got some crud on it anyway?
(The fact that I dropped my phone in the bath is also not helping). -
It kind of is the Evans fork - Winston reused the blades (you can still see some red if you look closely), and I think even managed to reuse the crown on someone else's bike.
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Ha ha, I take it you haven't received good customer service from Spa at some point?!
I think the nice people in the dynamo thread have resolved my wiring question now : ) -
Thank you! I think I understand it now.
The rear light you've linked to appears to be the e-bike version, which will not work.
Well spotted!
In real life I have the dynamo hub version.
The rear does indeed come with two little spade things on wires.
I have a cable that either came with my old front light or with this rear light.. but either way is too short.Thanks again : )
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