What a weekend! Bikes bikes bikes. Heaven. ;-)
With the arrival of the prototype frame immiment, we have purchased all the parts required for the first test build - which will be in the format of a conventionally geared, but disc braked cross bike. Certainly, it isn't suitable for the top level of Cross, where discs are outlawed. But that is missing the point. This bike (among other things) is aimed at being fun in the mud. Plus, it will have several other cards up its sleeve.
One of the first components to arrive were the rims and spokes. I'd picked the hubs up a while ago and they'd been staring at me accusingly for the last month or so. The kit is not especially exotic, but I expect it certainly will do the job well; Halo Aerotrack rims laced on Shimano LX hubs with DT Swiss Competition spokes. Friday night I started the front and now, Sunday, I'm feeling pretty chuffed with myself having just finished the rear. And if I may say, the result looks pretty hot indeed.
That said, I haven't been working on them all the way through. It was a good weekend, a lot of Saturday spent wandering around town doing a lot of window shopping, and today preparing my cross bike for next weekend; it had been caked with mud after the last outing at Herne Hill and had only been hosed off and the chain lubed to prevent corrosion. Today I did a nice strip down, and re-lube - and I cleaned all the mud out of everything.
All in all, a knackering weekend, but well worth it now having a spotlessly clean cross bike, but more importantly a pair of kick-ass looking wheels for the first Such Bikes prototype.
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