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@M_V
Long time since I posted here.
On the FireEye front,
Kris Holm rim has arrived - and looks ace, so wide, just plain huge actually - so has the XT front hub I'll build it to and the 290mm spokes that should really be 285mm spokes. Don't trust manufacturer measurements!
A Knard should be here monday.
I decided that as the FireEye will be the most capable bike I have in terms of braking and grip etc that I'll be riding it a lot and that I want at least some of that riding to be singlespeed so I got back in touch with Mike at Onza/Unofix and he built me a ss rear disc hub on another undrilled Ronnie rim so if it'll blend in nicely with the other 2 wheelsets I have from him and it should also match pretty nicely with the KH rim on the front all be it minus the holes.
I went for an undrilled rim to make tubeless easier and have got it set up with a split 20" tube. It's held air for about 12hours today so I'm hoping that's a good sign.
The front wheel will also be tubeless, once I get it built.
Also picked up a few bits of jewellery for this bike in the form of a Thomson stem and a Hope seatclamp - the Salsa clamp I was using was getting really chewed up around the pivot. The Hope I have on the Surly seems to be standing up to winter grit and shit a lot better so gets my vote.
Oh and brakes, I got pissed off trying to bleed and bed the Hopes so I split them down, cleaned the hoses out and fitted them to the M755s (the switch from dot to oil seems to have done them no harm) and punted the calipers and levers on eBay.
The Hopes might have looked flash but the Shimano brakes just work. Bled up so easily, bedded in minutes and just sit there quietly doing their thing.
The Pompino now has drop bars and an old 7speed Ultegra bar end shifter on friction mode working the Nexus hub. I commuted on it today and think I've about got the hang of shifting the hub gear without indexing. I've also switched back to a 700c front wheel/fork and canti brake to work with the drop levers.
Pics of this at the weekend mibbe.