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I'm just going to ride as is until new kit arrives I reckon

Oh any your Turbo Cotton/Latex tube advice was bang on - lovely pillows of speed, proper Lemmys

Code for "my wheels haven't arrived yet"

Your Dave is lovely thing though, nicer than Lairy Brian I think

@spotter They are weird eh, but I rode it for the first time last night and they are really comfy, in fact the whole bike is, which is a delight. I may get a silver post to see how it looks though

I nearly bought some blue shoes to match, dunno if you get metallic blue pedals, or if they are good idea the amount of abuse I seem to give things 😂

28c turbo cottons, as the roads here are ‘kin awful

Pedals are just Ultegras I had to hand, but dunno how more colourful I would want to go, or could go in SPD - SL flavour

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You can

It’s now finished enough for instagram

I’m going to ride it for a bit before deciding what to do with the stem.

Yeah I think a black one would look good, but I quite like this one and it measures up about right on paper. It’s also stuck and stuck in a ‘this will be pure hassle to free’ way.

So if it feels right then I’ll just leave it and enjoy it.

The caveat to all that is that this is def version 1 of this build, as V2 will have a silly groupset and maybe some other wheels. But the gruppo will take a while to assemble so when it’s all together, then I can rebuild stuff/fuck about with the stem

It came with 20c’s 😂

LoL

Who do you think I am #doubletubColm

Totalled the freehub on the other Rourke though and cannot get the NDS lock nut off to free the fucked hub bearing, so looks like it’ll be off back to Cliff.

Chewed a pawl that then done some lovely stuff in the freehub body it seems

Got a bit closer today

Will lob a chain on tm and tidy up the cables, just need the bar tape and tyres to arrive, then find some crabon pads

Think I’ve sorted the cassette by taking the 12t on and using the 11t as a spacer against the lockring, the gap isn’t to much bigger either so will play about tm.

There is massive spoke clearance at the back of the hub/cassette, so might get the file out at some point and see if I can move the cassette across a bit

Ah ok

Fair enough

How does the 11-34 fit and 11-25 doesnt?

Are the larger sprockets able to sit over the ‘back’ of the freehub body?

Cheers I’ll ask about the RD2 freehub

Knowledge is much appreciated

@leggy_blonde is already on to me about the 11-34, but it would just look awful

Might just get the file out or drop the 11t cog off

I don’t suppose you know if any of the replacements for sale on interwebs are 11s, I honestly can tell....

£85

Ffs

Nice one, most things Matt says about you could be interpreted as being untrue

Let’s hope they do an 11s one

It does need a black stem, but if it doesn’t come out this week then it’s staying put

Well I got the freehub off to try and ID it

Anyone any ideas on hub or freehub?

I though Bitex

Nice to meet you to matey

I say short term, long way to go and I will faff about with this For ages 😂

Ha ha ha

So very close.....

Some more daylight photos for posterity

List of things required that I hadn’t thought of/discovered before I started putting things on the frame...

• 11s Bitex freehub (Muppet)
  
• 6800 brake pad carriers or some Shimano ones
  
• Crabon pads
  
• Shorter recessed front brake nut
  
• Tunstall wheelers top to match paint
  
  

Things that aren’t in the post I still need and can’t decide on

• tyres
  

Picked up a bargain 6800 groupset last night and started assembling last night. This will be a temp groupset (that’s the plan anyway) until I sort something dafter out.

Obvious bottle is obvious

Took @seager s advice on the magic erasers and they have been wonderful for the paint work. A bit of sharpie action later and it’s looking quite good. Photos are awful but it’s grim outside :(

Dibs 6800 - PM’d and local to you

Few bits for sale here

Will move to classifieds tm