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It’s taken a good 18 months and a lot of patience but keeping an eye on classifieds and swooping in on bargains has paid off. So here’s my Rosebikes Xeon Team Cgf (2016):
(Note the shitty spray.bike job)
This is how I rode it for a couple of months before the shifters finally died and I got really tired of arriving at work with a wet arse.
So after a long hard think I decided to try something relatively drastic (whilst updating the rest of the bike to 6800 because, more bargains). Enter 10mm m5 threaded alu ‘connecting rods’ and 24hr araldite:
Wait overnight for a cure, abrade bonding surfaces and then this stuff:
Another full cure, lazy sand and paint got me this far:
Some sloppy gloss, (was actually going well until Fizzgig the cat investigated the drying gloss and fucked it up with dust and fur) some (lots) of swearing and I’m finally here:
Bike is bike shaped, now onto the unenviable task of internal cable routing, mudguard fettling and sundry tasks to be discovered as I progress.