Mortonm
Kona Fan
This is an awfully long tease....Just got the call from Argos. The fork is ready to ship to new HQ. Fingers crossed it's with me next week. Shame everything is in bits
This is an awfully long tease....Just got the call from Argos. The fork is ready to ship to new HQ. Fingers crossed it's with me next week. Shame everything is in bits
Sounds like excuses. Its okay if you've bought a brand new fat bike and love itDude, my new garage is full of non-bike stuff It's gonna be a while...
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....and indeed who "Team Mustard" were - presumably a term of endearment for the local North West Team riders, along with the Skull 'n' Crossbones decals .
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Looks really good! I agree the grey fork was the way forward, breaks things up a little bit.In February 2021, we relocated from SE London suburbia, close to the North Kent Downs, to west Cornwall. I'm still amazed and eternally grateful that we could buy and sell within the pandemic. In fact, the day we left for good, we were still in full lockdown and it was the first time we'd left the county for months, the last time being late summer when we saw our new house for the first time.
Long story short, whilst I have a garage, it's not totally water-tight and is full of building materials. Only last month was I able to get to the fleet, tucked away in bits in the corner. The Esatto and Hot were my 2 bikes last and this season. Building and tinkering have been out of the question.
So, it was with distinct pleasure that yesterday, over a year since the resprayed forks were returned from Argos, I could start to rebuild the Kapu. This is where I got to:
Boy oh boy. To say I'm stoked is a distinct understatement. The light was shocking so the fact it still looks this green, I can't wait to see it properly in the summer sunshine, free from smog! I'm pleased with the forks; they could be a touch lighter but actually, together with the stem, they are almost identical and I really liked the depth of sparkle they have. We have to bare in the mind the stem paint will have faded a touch. What I'm absolutely sure about is that it was the right call to have them grey and not colour matched to green or even worse, black. It just looks amazing, with the Veloce groupset looking so, so smooth.
Much as I'd like butterscotch tyres, they just don't exist new, and the black are going to work with the parts on order to finish the build. No spoilers on that just yet but I'm aiming to have this ready by the end of May. We're almost there...
Thought so. The black looks really nice anyways. Would be my preference if it were mineTa, took a look and they look too dark (they call them ginger) and for sure, at 32, way too wide.