Thanks all. I appreciate it's not everyone's cup of tea, and I really built it as an experiment. It's a contrast with my normal bike (actually, I visited Tiermat's garage recently and it made me feel better about my assembly habit).
A couple of 'notes':
- I think the bar tape will become brown/tan. The white was on the bars when they were on the Peugeot and I didn't have the heart to pull it off. I may try to reuse it and put the proper colour on this one.
- There won't be any white Brooks. I've got a couple of white Selle Italia saddles, but they're appropriate in their place.
- The white tyres should have been black, but Acycles sent white and I couldn't be bothered to send them back.
- The front chainset is my old Stronglight XD2, with 48, 34 24 rings. The Tiagra front mech changes perfectly. The rear is 10 speed with a 12-27 cassette.
- The rack is Velo Orange with integrated decaleur
- The bag is French
- My concern with the light is that it stops the bag sitting on the rack well. I'll sort something eventually, but getting out is more fun at the moment.
- No Seattle Randonneurs jersey, and no 600km dirt road routes locally either.
The bike is faster than it feels to ride, and is one of two dynamo equipped bikes in the shed. The other currently has slightly knobbly tyres and a big rack, so I'll maybe post pictures another day. Someone asked to see the 'fleet' so this is a good start.
Mike
