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Cheers Pete! It arrived in Manchester over the weekend so I'm keen to get back out on the thing!

Just realised I have a new requirement for the fork: a standard brake hole for mounting my dynamo light to.
I thought I could possibly fabricate a braket that will go between the two v-brake mounts to attach it to.

Fresh Paselas and some nice matt black sks mudguards on their way now. Replacing the tyres because the front is just about bald and the rear is a marathon plus (only thing I could get in 35c on tour) and I'm not lugging it around.
Gonna have a bash at adding some mudflaps to the guards, they already have some plastic ones but something more substantial would be great

I never replaced the tyres in the end, but the old ones are still going strong. Fitted the mudguards and was happy for a long while, until I got sick of having the rack on the back and never using it.

Removing the rack itself was fine, but refitting the rack-specific rear dynamo light required a bit of work.

I spent too much of the day chopping at a frame mount for a d-lock with a hacksaw and came up with a solution.

It's not neat or pretty, but it does the job for now!

Bike looks a bit naked now I reckon, and I feel like the lack of a rack at the rear accentuates the need to get the steerer chopped.

Lookin good, love my cross check (eldest is using it for now), wouldn't chop the steerer if you ever plan to sell it, if not, crack on.
When he's out grown mine, off to the powder coaters I think.

Yeah the orange is a bit garish on this, I wish I'd gone for something a little more low key! Got absolutely no qualms about cutting the steerer though, a replacement fork is pretty cheap

The more orange the orange the better, Surlys orange looks too washed out for my liking.
Fair point about the fork.

This is coming back to me after Christmas, so I thought I'd write down my plans in here.

Mudguard upgrade to PDW.
Tyre upgrade to Compass Bon Jon Pass.
Fork upgrade to a Merida disk.
Saddle upgrade to a Chaunts fake SMP.
Paint blasted and clearcoated.

Inspired by this:
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13119004/

Right arm! glad i could inspire too. You gonna join the #rackandbasketlyfe? cant recommend it enough

@t0-ster quite possibly! If I leave the fork as is then it's definitely an option. I have a cheap carrier rack to which I could strap a basket. Also have a tubus tara.
BUT I would like to go carbon at the front and try disks.

Put the carrier rack and tubus tara on last night - doesn't look great. I think a basket on the carrier would help matters a little. Also put on some voyager hyper tyres, which feel pretty nice but I can't get on with the reflective strip.

Ideas I'm toying with:
650b (add another set of canti studs to the frame and fork)
Re-powder coat (thinking of a dark yellow - gone off the idea of raw)
Installing fu-manchu bars

Still need: bb, gear cable, chainring bolts (evans were gonna charge me £12?!)

Got a used pair of nanos on their way, looking at tiagra brakes to fit stedloop bars. Bike will be a totally different animal soon.

Read through all this and sounds like you're heading the right way. Dark and dirty yellow is a great colour.

Dark and dirty yellow is a great colour.

Thank you! Everyone local is against the colour change so it's nice to have a bit of encouragement.
Slow progress as it's deadline time for me, so have a pic:

Girlfriend is getting a tooth out on Friday and is getting sedated, so I'm on care duties all Saturday. I think that should give me the time to get this stripped down.

Dark/dirty mustard was what I wanted to do to my CC for a while: very good idea imho

I like! Getting better and better.. Those guards do all sorts of good too.

Would be reeeeal nice if the mudguard stays were parallel with the chain stays tho. Anyone know if that is intentional due to wobble and other structural things?

Do you mean the front ones? I've just googled them, and it looks like they usually are more horizontal. I'll have to have a look at that when I get home.

Actually just in general, for both the front and the back.

Sort of like this: https://www.instagram.com/p/BUsI-dFALUo/?taken-by=mstr____

Just for those small aesthetics points ;) But your right, your front does look a bit low compared to others!

Eventually got cracking on this last night

Email sent to Surly, going for the "Rhymes with" Orange of the new Karate Monkey, hopefully they'll ping back with the RAL code soon

Why would you drink stella before a proper beer?!

Stella is 10/10. No shame.

RAL code acquired, amazing.

What number is it? Going to guess 1037.

1028 apparently