GT GTB build

First time doing one of these, so feel free to pour stale beer over my head if I'm doing this wrong.

This baby has been loaded onto an airplane this morning and is now on the way to me - will hopefully arrive by the end of the week or early next week:

First parts arrived today as well:

Still waiting on stem, bars, chainring, chain and parts for the wheels. Super excited about this build - can't wait to shred through the streets of London's famous London on this.

Is that the one A Danger had for sale?

I think she has/had a few for sale, but yes, I bought it from her.

Love these, v jell

Yes! All the triple-triangle-goodness!

Miss my pulse :'|

I assume this is the 'ratty 53-54cm track frame' build... ;)

Looking very good!

Thanks! Well, it does have a couple of paint chips, so may be that count as ratty? heh

Do you want to have wheels with 30mm carbon rims on this?

Not a big carbon rim fan. Also have already ordered the bits for the wheel set.

Gonna have HED C2 Belgium clincher rims laced to Chubs with Sapim CX-Ray spokes.

Bling build for real

Chubs? On triple triangle, hmm that should be interesting.

Mack hubs, low flange, black. Ace.

Good idea. Might consider them unless my LBS has ordered the hubs & spokes for me already. The HED rims seem to be out of stock everywhere worldwide until mid-November anyway.

What colour are the other bits?

Other than wheels I'm going mostly for silver components, except for the cranks, which are black Sugino DD75. Got a very very good deal on them.

Like this then. I was bored at work. Your bog standard GT GTB. Looks alright!

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Oh shit, amazing. Yes, that's somewhat the plan, except that the stock fork is 1" threaded, so gonna use a quill stem.

I thought about trying to find a 1" Wound Up Zephyr Noir or Alpina threadless fork at some point, but want to have a basic build first.

So like this more or less w orig fork

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That looks about right.

Me too

So the hubs finally arrived this morning. Went with Zipp 333 track hubs in the end. The different size flanges on the rear hub are pretty funky.

I have never seen hubs like that, why is one side larger?

Increased strength on the drive side?

According to Zipp:

The asymmetrical flange design yields equal tension on both the drive side and non-drive side of the rear wheel. This completely eliminates torsional deflection through the hub shell providing immediate acceleration and flawless tracking through turns on the velodrome under power. To ensure consistent spoke tension and support for the spokes, the hub flanges of the 333 are angled inward to provide a direct path from a spoke’s j-bend straight to the rim.

http://www.zipp.com/technologies/hub/333-track-hubs.php