Genesis cycletruck/Tricross/Solaris MAX - KingTwin tandem

Plenty of progress all round with projects this week. I've been wanting to swap the 1x9 Sram XO on the cycletruck to a triple for a while as well as change the black spoked rear wheel for a silver spoked one to match the front and I've finally collected all the pieces.

Tensioned up the rear wheel (Sunringlé Demon hub, Mavic Ex325 NOS rim, double butted spokes and brass nips) and swapped it for the Mavic Crossride that's done good service for a few years. Matchy matchy and the rim is a little wider too.

The frame was originally a single speed so had no gear routing, when I chopped it into a cycletruck I brazed in bosses on the underside of the down tube for a rear derailleur but it was still missing routing for a front one. I'd run out of gear cable stops so brazed a couple of different sized nuts together and stuck them on the underside of the down tube, slightly offset to avoid the central rear cable routing. The rest of it went together nicely, just a couple of niggles to sort now; the front derailleur is right at it's max limit trying to change up to the outer ring so I may need a slightly narrower bottom bracket, the spring tension is a bit weak in the rear derailleur too so that will need looking at and the shifters don't sit quite close enough to the brake levers because of an adjustment knob. Finally, the whole thing needs a very good clean, the guards tidying up, ideally a dyno hub, make a steel stem for it, and most importantly a full strip down to repaint before winter (perhaps spray can again but maybe a powder coat). Got a lot of love for this bike, it's used almost daily around town to avoid using the car and it's getting closer and closer to peak functionality.

• 3x9 XT m735 with Ultegra 8spd bar end shifters (which handily have an extra click so work with 9spd) on adapters
  
• White Industries triple crank set (42/32/22)
  
• Avid Elixir 9 4-pot brakes, Hope discs
  

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