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Can't take credit for the stripping I'm afraid! @.gaz. did all the work! He covers it in his thread.
Can't take credit for the stripping I'm afraid! @.gaz. did all the work! He covers it in his thread.
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So just ticked over a thousand miles on the Genesis now & I'm still thoroughly enjoying it. Few little niggles now though.
I'm going to have to replace the cranks. While I don't approve of his delivery, Hambini is right on this one - 30mm axle in a 42mm BB shell doesn't leave much room for bearings, & these are a bit crunchy now. A bit of a shame as I love the stripped look of the current cranks. I've got a Rotor 3D24 crankset I'm probably going to use, which I could strip too to be a pretty similar setup. Longer crank arms too which I think I'd appreciate, could lose a few spacers that way.
The wheels probably need retensioning, I'd guess a thousand miles is more than enough to bed them in. Additionally I still need to swap the brakes to the Hope ones which are still sitting in their boxes. These are all the sorts of tasks I should have done last week while I was on-call so couldn't really ride.
Will have to delay a few of these things until the end of August as I'm riding from Leeds to London in a day in three weeks. Was supposed to do it six weeks ago but my friend got covid so that put a dampener on things. Thankfully the fit of this bike is pretty comfortable so should be fine!