Been a week or so.....replacing the watermain round my house and doing various other "gardening" jobs, involving a digger distracted me rather. I love diggers!
Where did i get to?...
Well headsets now in.....thanks Mr Magpie......actually bought this ages ago, with no use for, just on the basis that i had most of the other parts of an xtr set....so on it goes.
As you may know, im tall, so my plan was to junk the forks in favour of a pair of salsa cromoto 425mm to get me the 30mm i kinda need as a minimum.......well, that didn't happen. The forks just looked wrong; wrong and heavy btw. Wrong, heavy and it also concerned me a little as to the ride quality over curved blades.....especially as the ride was one of my major considerations. So ive stuck with the lovely marin ones.
Only problem is the bikes front end is now too short for my old bones.!
To partly resolve this ive found a long enough, controltech stem with a good rise.... that helps. The stem just needed a new pair of decals, bit of touch up and a coat of new clearcoat......perfect.
Just some bars........you can all see where this is going can't you.....im sorry.
Test set karma'd to me and then a nice full length pair came my way via retrobikeguy.....who is a diamond. Bit of air brushing, polish out and a coat of clear and they are like new.
As i cant find a good seat post that fits at the moment (well one that pocket money allows) I also decided to re generate an old one, whilst i had the spray stuff out.
Like i said, im sorry for posting offensive content.....but i did warn you at the start.
Not very exciting i know, but all this fettling takes time.
BTW. Foo fighters, greatest hits.