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Small resurrection. Been ticking over slowly, riding it often. Stacked it a few times in the autumn/winter because of slippery drain covers. Decided this is more of a fair-weather thing.
This may be 'last words' for the Kuota, as it's coming with me to Germany tomorrow morning, on the British Airways flight to Hanover. I'm giving it to the check-in desk as naked as possible, in the hope the luggage handlers take greater care. Or not. Whatever.
Took off the TT setup it had before. Those amazing Vision base bars ended up on the Cannondale Caad9 I sold the girl I was dating back in September. I miss that bike...
Now running mostly parts-bin stuff, where the DA parts went to a different build, lots of 105. Chainset is now a Kuota-brand K04 or something, rebranded SRAM. Botched 1 1/8 Pro-Lite aero fork on this too, because there was a nasty crack in the carbon steerer on the old Kuota ones - this may or may not have been caused by a bike shop, as I'm certain it wasn't there before they cut down the steerer one time.
Been riding this with the Polish 4-spoke, and a Shamal-esque front wheel. Great fun. Changed the setup for the flight, as light as possible but wheels I don't mind losing/breaking. Put road drops back on it, albeit shallow ones. Horrible white tape at the moment, gash.
Will post a pic some point. Preferably when I have black tape on it again.