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First off I am going to look at consolidating my Surly Steamrollers. This stemmed originally from one of those eBay moments when there is too much commitment to buying something. What resulted was me purchasing two frames in the same week, one was ratty the other was nice. The original plan was to always sell one however almost a year has passed and they are now both built up much, to my girlfriends dismay. Here they are currently:
The ratty one that I ride almost everyday and do fun things on.
And the clean one that I rarely ride.
With the recent acquisition of another frame early this year the selling plan has been resurrected for monetary and flat space purposes. The plan is two will become one, get some upgrades and free up some parts and money to get the next build underway.
First big decision, which frame to keep...
The nice one is nice, has mudguard mounts and decals. The ratty one is a bit scuffed, doesn't have mudguard mounts or decals and has the seat post seized in it. I will have a go at it myself following Sheldon Browns wisdom steps. Should that fail, there is apparently a local seat post releasing wizard so worse case scenario will hopefully be paying him some money.
Do I sell the nice one, get more money, release the seat post and possibly attempt a sporty rattlecan DIY paint job. Or use the nice one, and sell the tatty one for less, either with the post in place or go through the hassle of releasing it pre sale?
There are bits that can be done in the meantime. As rim brakes are dead and pretty lack luster offroad at the best of times I am binning the road caliper and upgrading to a disk brake. This means that I also need to upgrade the fork and front hub. I have a Lynskey Endurance fork that I bought off facebook and currently getting an Alpkit Love Mud dynamo (eBay) built into an Open Pro (also eBay). I also have an old Avid disk brake in the parts box that hopefully still works.
Last things I need is the light which will probably be a Supernova E3 Pro 2 and a non dynamo disk hub to be built into my current wheel for when I don't want dynamo lighting.