My yokes and all the bits to go with them arrived the other day.
So, the box is sitting in my bedroom and, every so often, I've been pulling things out of it. Just to have a look.
The black yokes look really substantial. I'm glad I decided to go down the way of a bigger front end. All I have to do now is get the front wheel sorted. I'm thinking of changing the spokes to stainless and getting the rim powder-coated at the same time as changing the bearings over to 22mm ones. That way I will have the look I want, instead of part doing the job then finishing it sometime in the future.
I could send off the hub and rim to a wheel builder in England and get them to do it but this is another one of those things I'd like to try for myself. Well, what I actually mean is I'd like to find out if I'm capable of doing it myself! Maybe I'll get the tyre off first and then see how I feel as I do each of the stages.
Wanting to work on my bike has also opened up a further dilemma for me. Should I renew the tax (the reminder came through the post today)? Or, should I take the bike off the road early, for the winter, and so get started on the work?
If I do that the weather will most likely get better again and I'll regret it.
On the other hand having all these parts lying in boxes in the garage is giving me twitchy fingers.
The black yokes look really substantial. I'm glad I decided to go down the way of a bigger front end. All I have to do now is get the front wheel sorted. I'm thinking of changing the spokes to stainless and getting the rim powder-coated at the same time as changing the bearings over to 22mm ones. That way I will have the look I want, instead of part doing the job then finishing it sometime in the future.
I could send off the hub and rim to a wheel builder in England and get them to do it but this is another one of those things I'd like to try for myself. Well, what I actually mean is I'd like to find out if I'm capable of doing it myself! Maybe I'll get the tyre off first and then see how I feel as I do each of the stages.
Wanting to work on my bike has also opened up a further dilemma for me. Should I renew the tax (the reminder came through the post today)? Or, should I take the bike off the road early, for the winter, and so get started on the work?
If I do that the weather will most likely get better again and I'll regret it.
On the other hand having all these parts lying in boxes in the garage is giving me twitchy fingers.
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