SkipTown's Muddy fox Seeker and Raleigh Record Ace

That bike looks lovely. Great backdrop as well.

Lovely colour! And dyno ALL THE THINGS.

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Moved house, so Building up the Raleigh was put on hold. Finally have parts dripping in.
Still waiting on Some shiny Borg22 dyno wheels, tektro brakes and TRP levers.

Build has turned out very similar to @passhunting's lovely Argos

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Some progress on the Raleigh.
My first tubeless set up seems to have gone ok.

Still have to fit the mudguards and bar end shifters.

I stupidly assumed I'd be able to repurpose the downtube shifter clamp and replace the shifters with standard barrel adjuster stops. However the shifter stops seem fixed to the clamp. Need to find a solution unless I'm missing something and you can remove those bits.

Also the brand new chain cracked after the first 50km ride. Strange. I didn't even shorten the chain. Perhaps that was the issue.

Also want to try narrower bars. After being #influenced by the whole ultraromance wide drops thing, I'm realising that might actually be uncomfortable bs

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Also these pedals are too ugly. Regretting not splashing out on something nicer

Following @vthejk's thread for his RAA and realised I've not updated mine

Need a dynamo light, to trim the mudguard stays and fix the bar tape.

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Real' nice! Is it time for a Record Ace appreciation thread?

Lovely bike... I always wanted to wrap my chain stay like this but every time stopped myself in fear that moist could get trapped and rust the tubing. Am I too risk averse?

The bike actually came with the wrap! Hadn't considered that. I'll let let you know if my chain stay explodes

If you use something porous then it shouldn't be an issue