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@Lachy
^^ this will not be happening
but glad you like the bike. It is destined to become my commuter doing trips of less than 10ks mostly through inner city traffic. I approached it like my previous builds, I took apart everything that I could. In my rush to disassemble I cut the rear spokes rather than head to a LBS (I didn't have the correct cassette tool) and immediately regretted it. I was on the local version of ebay and figured I could probably sell the hubs for more than I thought they were worth and hubs are easier to sell without a cassette screwed on..... so after several hours of grumbling I had re-laced the drive side of the rear hub to a 26" rim by using spokes from the disassembled 700c front. I had to bend little hooks into the spokes to get them onto the hub, down to the LBS and job done.
I was quite pleased with the parts that came with the frame, most I will be able to reuse: Rims are ok; headset is a super record with indexed steering, but with loose ball bearings it should be serviceable; crankset is record and will do for the moment, the bottom bracket has been replaced at some stage with an LP-26, 113mm, putting the outside ring chainline at 45mm, exactly where i need it, but putting the inside chainring perilously close to the chainstay and the bike unridable as I bought it; the stem is fine and will get reused; the brakes are record and the rear one will get reused.
everything else I will try to sell to give me more money for parts. it came with a record seatpost which should be easy to flog for a tidy little sum.
the frame and fork look pretty good. there is a slight bend in the toptube (in the middle of the toptube downwards by a couple of mm) but nothing to worry about.
next up is to strip the paint and then the frame has a date with an angle grinder...