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Progress.
Rolling ready and been for a quick blast around.
Nothing fell off :)
First impressions.
I reckon i could easily have gone a size up, easy to say now, compared to my old bike i am now 3cm shorter from saddle to bars, but a stem swap will sort that.
The next size frame up would be a larger head tube so smaller spacer stack.
I need a 25.4-31.8 bar shim so i can run one of the smaller diameter risers bars in the 100mm road stem i have.
This might be perfection for me, or maybe a 80-90mm stem.
Either way i am happy to ride the bike around.
Bike is quiet. I expected more booming from big tubes, this is nice, not getting the urge to squirt expanding foam in the frame to quieten it down.
Steering. Fuckmeisitagile. I expected sharp handling and this is the toned down FXE, i can see this being immense fun and a proper hooligan in heavy traffic. Glad i didn't get full track Geo, but i can see the appeal if you ride aggressive through traffic.
Didn't catch toes, but i am running SS and 170 or 172 cranks.
drive side pic
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