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I thought I was done with this bike. I had stripped it and was going to sell, but I never got round to it. Since my last update new children, a pandemic, and two moves have happened.
Now I live in a place where my Panaracer Paselas nearly killed me on loose gravel and sand, so WTB Nano's have gone on and I've reverted to a flat bar and wide range cassette. I've also gone back to the Thorn fork I had in an earlier iteration and used a lot of the same components from earlier builds. The new bars are Nitto Jitensha. I love them aesthetically but the jury's still out in terms of comfort. Perhaps wider, proper, MTB bars, are the way to go. The XT mech and wide range cassette are giving me trouble; the cable gets so tight I can't shift into the last three cogs. It's strange because I've used this same combination of mech, cassette and shifter before!
In any case, I think it looks pretty cool and I will work out the niggles in due course. More than anything I'm just happy I kept this bike and I love how adaptable it is.
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