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It’s not the first time that paintjob served as an inspiration. A friend of mine painted his Duell in the same colour scheme (but flipped) and he chose to extend the fade to the forks. He also opted for white decals, gotta say they work really well with the white tape and saddle on your build.
Any chance you want to share some photos of those rwandan mountain views?
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The fade on that Duell fork looks excellent - I think it was a great choice.
I always try to match the colour of decals with bar tape and saddle. So this tends to be white/white/white or black/black/black. But I once managed yellow/yellow/yellow on an old Gitane SS conversion for this happy customer (when I worked for Mottainai Cycles in Melbourne):
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More Rwanda mountain views...
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Rwanda is the "land of a thousand hills". For this trip I've used my heavier cassette, a steel 13-26t rather than the titanium 12-23. And so, in my lowest gear of 34 : 26 I can sit and spin up any hill 8% or less. Though an 11% hill this morning did require some standing towards the end.
The seatpost is also just a cheap alu post, because the USE Alien was slipping - probably because it was a 25.0mm shimmed out to 27.2. I am hunting for a post in 27.2mm which will match the look of the Grammo stem, and is ideally sub 150g. Do holla if you have any leads.
I am fighting the urge to swap out the fork for a carbon one. Weight savings across the fork/stem/bars would add up to 0.5kg, but I keep reminding myself that Vernon Barker didn't build that fork just for me to hang it on the wall.