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A frame has been ordered - after changing my mind at east fifteen times - I've decided not to get a custom frame just yet. A lot of arguing with myself left me at the decision that anything off the peg was a compromise but several small ones won over having one or two big ones (and the price is very attractive for someone getting married in a couple of months).
I've been collecting the few bits I didn't already have over the last few months while trying to choose a frame to put them on. The primary one being brakes and since I couldn't find any Revox I went for these for now
I still need to order some new carriers/pads for them.
Treated myself to a new frame pump too and I've a set of VO metal fenders to go on, although they might get borrowed by the tandem for matrimonial duties. I should hopefully have everything else to hand in the parts bin, so long as I haven't sold off anything vital, and I think I spied a more aesthetically pleasing crankset than I have at the bottom of the 'not knackered enough to scrap' box in the shop - I'll have a better dig when I've some time to spare.
Longer term all the parts will get anodising stripped and/or a gun black coating to bring it all together but the priority will be to get it up and running and the fit dialed as soon as possible.