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Eeyorecore
With more time on my hands than usual I've been mainly not riding the bikes I already own. No reasons other than the obvious, I just haven't fancied it. Rather than wallow I thought I'd do what any sensible middle-aged bloke would do in this situation, order a Velo Orange Neutrino and build a daft little green bike.
After weathering a couple of raised eyebrows from the fellas at my local shoppe, they swallowed their pride and placed the order for a frame in size L and humoured me as I started giving them a parts list almost entirely incompatible with what they can actually get hold of in this desert of availability.
The plan, as it stands, is to go for a SS build, based on standard cassette-bearing hubs, overkill hydros, black components, bullmoose bars and a Brooks. Debating a dropper, but can't quite bring myself to press buy on that one, despite my apparent disregard for the practical right now.
My hope is that this bike might put the spark back into cycling for me. No need for the funny clothes or embrocation, just back to it being casual and fun again, and to chase my four-year-old down the bridleways, country parks and woods.
Timescales are movable, but the frame should be in next week and parts are trickling through the door with alarming regularity. Hoping to get it going by the summer, if one arrives.