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The Rockhopper is a treat for riding around town and it will be really useful for the next mini project. I've modified a cheap trailer to take the canoe a mile or so down the road to the river, just need to fix the big hole in it now!
Also picked up the last couple of bits to get the Focus rideable. I'm hoping it'll be reasonably rapid as I haven't had a road bike with carbon wheels or an alu frame before (we're not counting the Tricross here!). It's a proper Frankenstein of bits, the most glaring being a disc fork and wheel on a rim brake frame. Force 22 groupset, Vision front wheel, Cosmic rear, GP5ooos and various other bits and bobs. I suspect the front brake will not be good, it's got a garbage quality Clarkes caliper just to test the concept which will get replaced if I like the bike. Off for a ride later. Future plans involve repainting the frameset and making a steel stem for it, ideally horizontal if my back will take it.
@tmevans the MT7s are a big improvement on the Solaris, more power than the SLX and no frustrating wandering bite point. Going to stick with the Magura levers until I inevitably break one..
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