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@scarlet
Lots of progress to report!
First, and by far the most welcome, is that the headset spacers and stem now fit together! The carbon spacer is shaped to fit the cables and hoses better, and its also 2mm higher at the front to match the (not square) stem. And the dowels also fit nicely. Happy!
I also bolted on some mechs to make it look a bit more like a bike. And with the mechs cabled and working (well, they seem to shift up and down) the internal cabling is done. So, I pressed in the BB today. That was straightforward too. I used a bit of loctite on the shoulders because IMO that's what you use on carbon shells to ally cups.
And no Scarlet update would be quite complete without some sort of issue; I fitted a pair of the wheels I intend to run... except they don't! I had a pair of Gigantex/Hope RS4 with QR adaptors, but the SPCycle is 12mm through axle, so I bought 12mm through axle adaptors. Hope's site is crap in terms of working out which ones you need, so naturally I bought the wrong ones. Another set now in the post.
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