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The plan for this bike is as follows:
-2x 11 - 105 which I'm stealing from my other bike. Oddly enough, I'm running 46-30 rings and it always feels under geared so I might try a compact double, but that can happen once the bike is built.
-Wheels are the cheapest 650b rim brake wheels I could build and aren't worth writing home about, but get the job done. Ended up getting some thorn rims to make them okay.
Tyres. After my short but heavily opinionated diatribe above, I usually end up with gravel kings. I did notice a strange sensation on my other conversation, which I shall call ghost steering. It's odd, but fine. Might try something else, but we will see. Ideally I would like the frame to clear 47's for full effect.
-Brakes. I have tried everything else and really wanted to try boss mounted centre pulls. Mafacs are too hard to source and to expensive so I've gone for dia compe 610-N. While they don't have the sharp lines of the cnc'ed counterparts, they are cheaper and way stronger (look up drop forging Vs CNC from billet, the grain structure makes all the difference). I had planned to make my own mounts for the frame for them but ended up just buying them, which after recieving then I now regret, as they were comparatively expensive for how simple they are (brake calipers were £80 for the pair, the mounts came to £60, but I was quids in by this point).
Otherwise, a cockpit and other ods and sods will be pinched, plundered or ploined from other bikes as needed. I would really like to make myself racks (the constructor esq ones that velo orange make) at some point but we will see how motivation goes.
First things first, after test during the tyres, the frame needed to be dimpled. So I ignored that and moved into the brake bridge. As the frame was designed around 28inch tyres, it's high, even with a 42 in there so, I made a quick jig out of some steel stock and got it roughly where I wanted it:
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