All City Macho Man (take 2)

At the weekend I pulled the trigger on an All City Macho Man frameset from Triton Cycles. It's due to be delivered today at about 15:30. I'm delirious with excitement.

It's my first build from scratch so I thought I'd document it here and ask for suggests and critique on component selections. The idea is to build it using as many parts from my parts bin and upgrade over time. With my parts bin being fairly thin on the ground at the minute, I'll end up buying a lot of the stuff upfront anyway.

So here's the plan:

All city macho man - 58cm
Chris King head set - black
SRAM Rival 22 groupset (I could potentially afford to go to force 22. Anyone think it's worth it or have other groupset suggestions?)
Planet X Strado Compact handlebar 44cm (parts bin)
Cannondale C2 stem 110m (parts bin)
Cannondale C2 seat post (parts bin)
Brooks B17 saddle dark brown (parts bin)
Brooks dark brown leather bar tape (parts bin)
Avid juicy ultimate cantilever brakes (totally not sold on this so open to suggestions)
H Plus Son laced to Tune Mig/Mag hubs (parts bin, kind of)
Tyres - absolutely no idea but looking for 32 or 35's I think
Jagwire cabling (parts bin)
Shimano XT trail pedals (parts bin)

I think that covers anything. I'll post some pictures tomorrow once the frame arrives.

Anyone have any comments or suggestions for the build so far?

Ta
Chris

Pictures

Just waiting on head set before I get going.
Also not ordered the group set yet just in case there are any decent deals on Black Friday (whatever that means)

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Make sure you get a top pull front mech!

Sounds cool though. Are you going to use it for cross?

Thanks, didn't know I needed a top pull specifically.

TBH I'm not sure what I'm going to use it for other than thrashing the life out of it. Probably going to use it for CTC next year though as its mainly cycle/tow paths.

I've never used a top pull but I think if the front mech cable is routed along the TT you need one.

Can anyone else confirm?

Either that or a pulley down by the bb shell, if my memory of early 90s mtbs is correct. Nice bike. Nowt wrong with Rival.

Thanks. I was just looking through other solutions and it seems I might have put force cx1 on the cards. I like the idea of having a 1x11 set up but I'm just concerned about the transfer-ability of the group once I get bored of the frame.

Thoughts?

Do it. Can't live thinking what if. Live for now. You may not get bored of the frame, build the bike you want now, ride the fook out if it. Enjoy.

CX1 chainset ordered along with avid short ultimates.

Just need CX1 brifters and rear derailleur which I'll order over the weekend. Wish the damned CK headset would arrive so I can start!

Tasty frame.. looking forward to this !

Cheers- yea I think the frame looks pretty cool. Hoping to have it all finished for the 28th Dec so I can enter the Macclesfield supacross.

Goodies!

Couldn't wait for the head set to arrive so I installed the BB and the force cx1 cranks that arrived this morning.

Tempted to just go to LBS and buy another CK headset than wait for this one.

Definitely the wrong choice saddle and bar tape but it's all I had in my parts bin.

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Saddle doesn't look too bad actually

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Macclesfield Supacross? Got any details? Likely to be around that way over the festive period, might swing by to heckle/beer...

Nice bike too :)

Aye, heckling welcome :-)

http://www.macclesfieldwheelers.org.uk/cyclocross.php

Cheers! Remember seeing that on the NWCCA calendar thinking about it. Sounds good, will say hi if I end up popping down.

I'll be around then as well, back at my dad's for Xmas.

Lots of Cheshire chat on here in the past couple of days.

May pop over to give abuse aswell, only in Sandbach. Would be good to see the bike in the flesh and meet another forumer.

Yea, I'll be the one at the back riding the canary

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Which reminds me - Avid shorty ultimates arrived today

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Progress and some exciting new parts. Annoyingly I have everything but the front cable hanger that CRC forgot to put in the box.

The force cx1 derailleur is a beast!

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Hope you're using different tyres on the 28th. ;-)

Oh yeah definitely!! They're the tyres I use for my road bike.

Made some decent progress today but now I'm in Mexico for 2 weeks so stuff will stop.

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looks lush.

Whats the TT length like? I'm reall close to orerdering one and dont know if the 55 or 58 would suit me better!!

That's a good looking bike!
Btw how tall are you?