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Got my beater stolen a few months ago and using the racer on a daily basis doesn't feel too right. It's not practical enough and with the wet weather looming I want a sensible mudguards + rack bike. It'll have to be on the cheap as well, and I've been putting the classifieds to good use and getting some parts of fellow forumgers. With a bit of luck this will end up at £250, but I can't guarantee it'll be pretty.
Early next week I'm picking up a Viscount frame, so while that doesn't happen I did some work on the wheels I bought from oldskoolracer a few days ago. Wheels are planet x hubs on mavic open pro, nicely built and true:
The issue is that as they were being used fixed, the front rim had the brake surface a lot more used than the rear one, which is basically new. So I thought it'd be good to switch them.
This is the first time I have a go at building a wheel, and given that I'd need to unlace both rims to make the switch I decided to tape the spokes by pairs so I didn't need to worry about forgetting their position. Can't decide if I should feel stupid or clever.
I also cleaned it all nicely, and de-stickered the rims. I think sometimes the stickers look real nice on good bikes, all pro and stuff, but I don't envisage this ending up as one so I went all clean.
That's one.
That's done.
I also collected brakes, stem and pedals from kat today. I already have bars and levers. Now in the look for a crankset but first I want to see what's the situation with the bb — specially as it's a Viscount. That'll have to wait a couple of days though.