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First ride tonight between rain showers.
F-me it's a quick little bike, wheels are superb and made a great whistling noise at speed. A few pings as the wheels bed in.
Realised the moron bike shop who fitted the headset have screwed it! It either rocks or is over preloaded, zero middle ground. Visually it looks straight and fitted properly, wondering if they have the lower race skewed or warped. Shame as it seemed like a nice headset. I'm going to dismantle it and have a closer look, or replace it.
Overall very happy with the whole setup.
Couple of possible changes:
Tape the bare part of the bars - any suggestions?
Up tyre pressure 10psi
Remove stickers from braked wheel
Pos. increase gearing, 50/17t seems to spin up very quickly, I'll do a few hills and decide.
Learn to corner on skinny tyres . . . . . . .