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The orange tank. Morales BTS MK2.
Midschoolfool:
Pedals, if you can call them that, arrived today. So did the hub, which is so heavy it presses itself into the memory foam on my bed :LolLolLolLol:
Bonus is it's LSD. Always nice. Thankfully my sprocket (12T) and lock ring (it was missing) fit lovely.
Midschoolfool:
When you spend 10 minutes typing, press a combo on your keyboard and lose the fooking lot :(
OK, deep breath. Lots of parts came. Will get pics in a bit. Rims came, so I made a tool to measure the ERD from two old spokes and nipples. It turned out to be what I feared. You need very short spokes. I don't want to ask Avro to borrow his machine as after a lot of reading they only warranty the cutters (dear) with certain makes of spoke. That I can't get. After hours of pissing around I found some reasonably priced spokes in 160mm (the wheel calculated to 161, but you can + or - 1mm, preferably -. The way they sell spokes is like a crack dealer. In odd numbered packs so you spend ?15 more than you want to. Buggers. In the end I found then in packs of 6 in stainless (what I wanted) and ordered 8 packs. Total cost was 17 and a few pence. Good ! Now I just need to order orange nipples (lol) but I won't do that until I have the front hub and spokes sorted.
OK moving on. The seat came today. I carefully took it apart, and then even more carefully peeled off the black vinyl.
Then removed all of the glue.
And kept the old vinyl as a loose size guide/template.
I ordered my pig skin suede.
Was 4 quid. BTW the bars came, and I remembered where I had seen them before. KHE used to make all in one flatland bars called Swiss Miss.
Only difference I can see is that those are much straighter due to being flatland and more rise (8.6"). That said this isn't a flatland bike, so more reach and less height is bang on.
More pics of stuffs soon.
Midschoolfool:
OK bits in.
And I bought the tyres. Thankfully they were on sale for 20 quid each, not the 40 quid folding tyres usually cost. They are 1.85 too, which is what I wanted. last thing I wanted to do was put clown tyres on those rims it would have looked stupid.
Forgot pic of tyres FFS. That shows you how my day has been - mad. 6 separate deliveries, chasing the guy I bought the frame from, pissing around for hours working out and finding the spokes and etc.
Midschoolfool:
OK, got the tracking info for the frame and parts.
Kinda knew that would happen. Good thing I put money away :LolLolLolLol:
That said I am pretty sure the bars and fork will rekindle me a few bob, so it's no biggy.
Chilli Rinse:
I might be interested in the bars if the price is right ;)
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