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Start a thread, " Varonha Onhas"?
Cheers @veLLo, gonna go out for a proper ride on Saturday, get lost in the Peak District (as I'll be without Mattnav).
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Ta very much, but fingers crossed, I think it may be sorted, Bikester ship to the UK still, but showed as only 1 in stock (let's hope Germans stocktake more accurately than the English), if it turns out they don't have it I'll give you a shout.
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Cheers Gareth.
Stem is ordered, a Ritchey WCS C220, 100mm, 6°. But due to bloody Brexit I can't get hold of the seatpost I'm after (to complete the Ritchey bar/stem/seatpost combo).
If any of our EU based brethren would like to do the honours for me, that would be rather spiffing. -
Shame you couldn't get on with the Kirk, but a most agreeable outcome for you and the original owner.
Having that same feeling getting back on my Varonha. -
Bloody ell pal, you're not buggering about! The Seven, the Kirk, and now this. DBAD, long live the rim brake.
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Ah you have posh Paselas on that. Very nice, had it long?
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The Paselas are 38mm @Nick_S
It was a rather enjoyable experience @edscoble, and don't worry about me owning two similar bikes, it's just nice to have a choice sometimes
@atk, I know a man that can build you one
@Psmith I'm really rather pleased with how it looks, for some reason I thought it was a bit more baby pink (maybe the lighting in the shop), but I like the brashness of it. -
The rain eventually stopped today, so went out on Winston bike for the initial shakedown ride.
Just a short bimble (about 15 miles), the soundtrack to my ride was the gentle hum of Pasela on broken tarmac (and when I stopped pedalling, the angry wasp overture of a Hope rear hub).
Things to change? Very little, cosmetically (and so the Genesis is just a wheel/tyre swap from being rideable) a Ritchey stem to go with the bars, probably a C220 or Toyon, a more subtle (less logoed) seatpost, Pro PLT maybe, and that's about it.
Rather enjoying the splash of colour that Spesh Roubaix bartape brings to the party. On the subject of bartape, I really cannot recommend Arundel Gecko, considering it had been on less than 12 hours (gave it a whirl to get me to the lbs) I would have expected the backing tape to have stayed on, but in places it stayed on my bars, and where it overlapped the layer below, it ripped the bartape, lesson learned, stick with what you know/like (no matter the colour).
Lovely looking bicycle. Just flaps away from complete.