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Wizardardly
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I've been emailed to say the bike is being built tomorrow, so hopefully it will be with me by the weekend.
I've ordered some bottle cages - Tacx Tao Light Bottle Cages:-
In my haste, I ordered the (marginally lighter and cheaper) polyamide "light" version rather than the sure-to-be more tactile pressed aluminium "ultralite" version.
Ordered a rack too. A basic Avenir Pioneer Transporter Rack in black.
I'm hoping the adjustable struts mean I can mount it as low as possible to the mudguard. This should suffice from the outset, but I'm eying up some pricier racks which I'll look into in more detail when I can measure the bike.
Suspect it's a foible of mine alone, but my search for a decent rack is being hampered by an irrational dislike of the tiny struts used to connect the top forward edge of the rack to the upper mounting eyelets on the bike. I know they take no/very little load but I'm getting obsessive about finding struts that look solid and connect the rack to the bike aesthetically as well as physically.