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Front wheels are so last year...

ATAC s are good, at least I loved mine, had a pair of the grey plasic/composite ones for years, fed them with chain oil to keep them going! Nice positive feel on the cleats, I use crank bros now, similar but less spring tension.

mule bars taste like 'real' food...I like the zipvit energy bars as they are lighter on the stomach than say SIS bars. Try a few out on training rides and get used to eating whilst riding, i.e ripping the packets open whilst decending wet slippy roads/trails/hairpin bends
and try not to splurge gels over your handlebars or down your jersey...

apple strudel mule bars get my vote too.

art bike or bike tart...

Dibs, please, pm on its way

...belt drive...missplaced chain ring...two gear cogs...my brain has fried...must ride asap in some mud...

my 52cm 2011 langster aluminium is great... it rides like a road race bike, I am convinced it accelerates and rides sharper than my ( now split and sold ) BMC streetfire...however I have put better wheels, lighter tyres, longer stem, ea70 bars, ti railed regal 'belgian sofa', and veloce skeleton brakes on it...may change the chainring to 44 ( 72 inch gear ) and try the local 10 mile TT events :-)

on one pomp, 35 18 gear ( to match a 32 16 26er single speed gear )...just re-positioned the midge bars recently and have decided to not change them for standard road bars... I set the brake levers higher on the curve and turned the bars down so that the lower part is almost horizontal.

Rodabod mentioned g springs, this is the most likely cause of your shifting problem, these are in the shift levers and are a pain to replace, but doable if you follow instructions carefully (YouTube). Parts can be got from Downland cycles.

steerer and star nut look ok to me, possible binding of top cap on steerer tube, fit a 2mm spacer under the top cap...are all the headset parts fitted,eg wedge?

I use mine off road, tyres at 40 psi, kore cantilevers, midge bars, free 35 x 18 gear....confuses the hell out of mountainbikers on full suss rigs!
photos soon!

Hi, 42 x 16 fixed for me and its hilly here in Dorset ! Spin out at just over 40 kph, cruise at 30 kph and get up short 17% grades. I use front and rear brakes...my legs were made in 1963.

FSA and Cane Creek do loads of headsets in loads of options...maybe check with your LBS

a late addition too this, last resort/method at the shop I worked at was to cut the post 3 cm above seat tube and use a long hacksaw blade that was bolted to a length of strip steel this was used to cut a vertical cut down the inside of the seat tube, with care you would not cut the frame...when the cut was through ( mostly ) it would be possible to crush the seat post and remove it. This was done if all the usual soaking with chemicals ( wurth rost- off ) and gentle blow -torching had failed. We would'nt give up!

Nice! proper mountain bikes...unfortunately too tall for me