Holt my beer, again, Faran and others

This was exactly my dilemma. Previous frame was right in the middle in terms of stack between the r&t. I went the other way and got the 54r. With a small spacer.

Spent a little bit of this morning looking at it all again and how much it might cost to switch to the t after looking at yours above. Less road bikey and extra frame bag space.

ha, thanks for the mention. I agree they haven't done a great job on the lookbook for people who want it to be an all road bike rather than upright tourer. I like having the tall stack exactly because I don't need any spacers below.

I have about 2mm below my stem just to separate it from the bearing cover. And yes - loads of room for a frame bag. Fairlight have released templates for all their bikes, I had asked them for the drawing for @Tijmen to make my bags (and which I highly recommend).

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I'm enjoying your lean into purple too.

The lifeline wiggle frame bag isn't going to be doing this justice... there might be a few upgrades.. if I ever pay off all these frames.

I'm enjoying your lean into purple too.

It's a fine line and I might need help staying on the right side!
Think 4 purple points might be the limit. Seatpost, headset and hubs.

Caught myself looking at Hope and Paul Boxcar purple stems :/

Did you decide on the stem, your current moc up looks great, I don't feel a fully purple stem would ruin it though but perhaps black would look better? But that purple does look great

How I yearn to be thinking about aesthetics again.

Gripped by a deadline to have the bike ready for this Sunday, I've been in a SRAM hydraulic induced stress and want to scream into an abyss.

The weekend gone saw a hose swap and a new hose fitted and as much as I want to scream FUCK SRAM, I may have been pushing my luck. Glancing at Strava gear, some of this groupset is 20,000 miles old, and on a third rebuild using the original bladders. The bleed ports and syringes have seen better days too.

Took the bike on the commute today and the left lever is losing fluid.

Next day delivery inbound with a new bladder. SJS cycles are now official partner of this build.

The positive, todays commute, 16 miles each way, lovely. Real happy with the fit of the 54T, even with 20mm spacers still under the stem. The ride, more stable than the Arkose and a little smoother.

The only negative, the paint. Read a review that talked about bags marking the paint but I didn't expect a 1 hour ride to cause damage. Found some electric tape for the return journey.

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I am a big fan of anodised aluminium for colourful accents but I usually feel like they are best reserved for "dots" or "splatters" of colour rather than "blocks". It easily becomes tacky if takes on too much visual mass in my opinion.

List of good dots:

• Screws
  
• Stemcaps
  
• Bottom bracket shells
  
• Headsets
  
• Seatpost clamps
  
• Bar ends
  
• Quick releases
  
• Tubeless valves
  
• Jokey wheels
  
• Cable ends
  
  

List of dots that can be good:

• Brake calipers/bodies
  
• Discs
  
• Pedals (sometimes)
  
• Hubs (rarely)
  
• Chainrings (rarely)
  
  

List of blocks that are almost always tricky to pull off:

• Whole cranksets
  
• Whole stems
  
• Handlebars
  
• Seatpost
  
• Rims
  
• Brake levers
  

New bladder fitted and if I've learnt anything, it is to bleed brakes in the kitchen. Thank you external cable routing for making this possible.

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Functioning.

If it works tomorrow, can shift to shiny things and disecting the lists, @Oddo.

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It easily becomes tacky if takes on too much visual mass in my opinion.
List of good dots:
Screws
Stemcaps

And this is where is where it starts, in the minutia, balancing precariously on the bike jewellery tacky line.

Paniced by a next day delivery cut-off for hydro parts, took a swing for black Hope jewellery to finish the purple parts.

Still undecided and now looking at the fork, that's a lot of bolts and lot of very very small first world problems.

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I'd keep the fork bolts silver (or black?), purple might be too much

You need something at the rear of the bike. I take it the rear hub is purple but from the side you can't see it.

You need something at the rear of the bike.

Hope do purple jockey wheels, no?

Hope purple hubs front and back, could look at a Hope casette lock-ring but would probably also be obscured, purple-thru axle are spenny, maybe jockey wheels.

I'd keep the fork bolts silver (or black?), purple might be too much

Inclined to agree! Will get the racks on this weekend and see how it looks, complete with ugly plastic mudguards.

Last pic looks lik you need to spend more money on your rotor and less on colourful ano :P

Last pic looks lik you need to spend more money on your rotor and less on colourful ano :P

It is true, turns out everything on the donor bike was looking a bit worn! but should they be purple, these are the big questions

(i'm voting no)

No is the right answer (to everything and mostly to people)

I only have purple hubs on my gravel wheels because I bought them second hand. The correct answer, always, is black.

Or silver

I have a pair of purple hope rotors, they don’t quite match, I could fairly easily be persuaded to part with

good theorising here, beg to differ with the seatpost though. an immaculate execution here.

I have a pair of purple hope rotors, they don’t quite match, I could fairly easily be persuaded to part with

Thanks, going to stay off the purple crack pipe, take the bike away for Easter and see how I feel.

Aaah go oooooon

Probably for the best

Probably for the best

Did they momentarily go on yours?