Am I the only person in the world still riding with an S3X?
Spoke failure on the tourer forced me back onto the fixed for commuting, and I love it!
I did have a scary moment when it went to Brixton Cycles for a service, and the chap rang me to say it was probably dead as it had a load of water in it, mixed with swarf
I established that the iron filings were from the badly engaging gears when I was using the SA indexed lever, and he bathed the workings in oil as a last ditch attempt. To his surprise and delight, it came up lovely, and was reassembled. He wasn't convinced about using a friction lever, so I gave in and said he could fit an indexed one. LSS, he rang me the next day to say he'd gone back to the friction lever.
Bit of a tweak at the weekend to re-splay the brake levers which he had 'straightened' (tbf, I hadn't explained), and the cockpit is pretty much perfect.
Could do with some better legs, but, all in all, it's been good and surprisingly quick