The Two Bicycles of Varonha.

Aren't those wheels virtually new? Shouldn't a re-tensionning suffice? (Assuming that re-spoking means new spokes... England are not my first language)

Respoking means new. Done 1500 miles on em, the rims are fine, the black spokes and nipples are looking very tatty, the black on the spokes is rubbing off and the alloy nipples are coroded due to the levels of salt Cheshire East council throw on the roads, even though we had a very mild winter. And I get a fairly decent discount at my lbs, and Rob (the mechanic) doesn't mind me gettin involved, so I learn summat as well.

How close was the spokes is to the calipers?

Not near enough to touch. Had a good lean over the bars tonight on the way home, seems to be a decent gap.

Okay, the noise is quite likely the rotor and pads/calipers touching slightly, happen to me before (and other customer's bike), end up needing to reposition them to get a decent alignment.

Not taking it to lbs until Sat mornin, so will have a play around with calipers before then, just to rule brakes out of the equation. Cheers Ed.

Problem solved. Bike went into lbs today, had new spokes n nipples, steerer chopped (not part of the problem, just a job needed doing). It's nice to ride home without that fookin clicking noise.

After a week of test riding, it was definitely the spokes causing the annoying ticking noise. Had another puncture with the open paves, got fed up with the struggle of getting them off and on, so went back to the ever dependable Paselas (got em for a decent price, and I've always liked em, so why not).
Now the suns out I can revert back to the bridleway for some of my homeward journey, not that the lanes are busy around here.

Found a company not far from me that will respray my f/f, for a decent price. Wandering between chrome/fern/olive drab, thoughts?

The Giant? pine green look good.

Yep the Giant, it's the only bike I've got at the moment, that is until the eldest gets bored of riding my cross check.
Quite liked the colour of apollos/obis lht, was that a standard Surly colour or respray?

Standard Surly colour from a few years back

Cool. May email them for a ral code. Cheers @andy_k

http://surlybikes.com/info_hole/faqs/what_is_the_ral_color_code_for_my_frame

I think the it was referred to as "Sage Green" in the catalogue, but also have a feeling that's one of the colours they don't have a RAL code for, could easily be be wrong though...

Aye, probably won't have a code (knowing my luck), but no harm in asking.

+1 for pine

We actually used traffic green and light green for a building.. we made a large aluminium screen different colours.. Looks good in the flesh..

Hmmm, traffic green definitely not, but pine is a possibility.

Speedy response from the chaps at Surly. RAL 6013, reed green. Looks a bit pale for my liking. Think I'm gonna go with pine green, meeting the painter next Thursday, so will have a chat with him, sure he'll have a ral colour chart for me to have a proper look at.

There's a difference between seeing the green in photo and in person.

Yep, that's why I'm leaving the final decision til next week at the paintshop.

Cool! It does look a little lighter on screen than IRL (partner's LHT is that colour...)

Yeah, was just looking back over apollos/obis lht build thread, and even though viewing on the same screen a ral swatch looks paler than his bike. Will rule nothing in or out til next Thursday.

Looking through the Surly archive, 2008 lht was olive green , ral 6003. That's more like it.

Any decisions yet?