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I know I know... I packed everything up again and saw them in the bottom of the box!
(alongside the #cassette)

Yes, many eyebrows will be raised above many rolling eyeballs!

Tbh, now I have the wheels alongside everything else, I think the colours of the little German flags on the normal GP5000's might be marginally less offensive than the weirdly dark 'tanwalls' on these. Perhaps I can think of a suitably nice pair of all-black tyres outside of the GP5000 box.

The wheels have arrived! Obviously I won't know if they're any good until I ride them, but they do look very well made, and feel satisfyingly light.

So now I'm pretty much just waiting for a healthy body and a frame.
I must say that, as exciting a new frame may sound, I am far more excited about the prospect of a healthy body these days.

well, apart from the colour

obvs

This is extremely exciting news Jon!

I enjoyed that

Ha ha! Damn right. I'm all about the eyerolls!

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.

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.

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 : )

Rookie question but I've been searching online for a couple of hours and am now thoroughly confused...

If I buy THIS front light, what wires / fixings / connectors / plugs etc do I need to run it to THIS rear light?

Do I need to be brand-specific to B&M?
Do I need 'single' wire or 'double' wire?
Do I need to buy the little paddle connector things separately?

Or will everything I need just come with the light from the nice people at Spa Cycles?

I have routing on the frame and know where the wires will run... the question is purely about what wires and stuff I need : )

Rookie question but I've been searching online for a couple of hours and am now thoroughly confused...

If I buy THIS front light, what wires / fixings / connectors / plugs etc do I need to run it to THIS rear light?

Do I need to be brand-specific to B&M?
Do I need 'single' wire or 'double' wire?
Do I need to buy the little paddle connector things separately?

Or will everything I need come with the light from the nice people at Spa Cycles?

I have routing on the frame and know where the wires will run... the question is purely about what wires and stuff I need : )

Also, who knew that Rwanda was such a popular destination for Neo Retro touring?!

Another option is to get the Grammo anodised black to match a nice modern seatpost.
I got some cranks done last year and it was extremely effective and surprisingly cheap. If you're worried about the obvious sacrilege of anodising a Grammo, you can also rest assured that it's extremely easy to remove.

I think black components would look great on this.
It's an awesome bike : )

His Panasonic is fairly ridiculous:

Shame they've been discontinued...
I found mine on ebay. I still have the saved search and they come up every now and again.
(Also, the old ones have cooler graphics!)

edit: didn't realise you were after 31.8 stem, sorry.

Heck, you could even try to find a matching Grammo seatpost to go with it!

I really think the best Neo Retro builds have light modern stems.. Like you say, half the point of a Neo Retro build is the added benefit of modern components, so it seems counter-intuitive to deliberately invite a steel stem to the party.

Another option is high-end 1" threadless like Grammo:

Yeah, I have them on the Varonha and they do creak a bit.
Other than that they seem okay, but it is a tad annoying.

They are well past their return date now so might as well use them.

Not yet, no... length and angle depends on final bike fit numbers so have to do all my physio etc before I can choose one. Same goes with seatpost because of layback, although I have a Superleggero ready to go. It has 15mm layback so should leave room for fore and aft changes if my body keeps changing.

Yeah mine is basically a dark, smokey purple. Apparently pewter is supposed to be a type of grey.

Yeah that's a custom job: Cheeky 3 degree angle to match the top tube, and a special fixing to hold the EPS unit.

Not sure if Saffron would make a stem independently of a bike, but Winston almost certainly would.

Although at that price point, I'd be tempted to get something modern and extravagant like Extralite.

In other news, I bought a headset.
It's 'pewter', and I'm hoping it'll sit nicely with the paint and the silly brakes. It's never been fitted but has a couple of light storage marks so was relatively cheap. I should be able to hide the blemishes under the down tube once it's on.

I'm kind of into it:

I was on a tight budget and pretty much everything was stupidly difficult to find.