A bike is born

Holy crap I built a bike!


Current build configuration:

IRO 56cm frame, unmarked flat black limited run of Dedacciai tubing.
Cane Creek S6 Headset
Phil wood low flange 32h track hubs laced with DT swiss spokes to Sun CR-18 rims
Vittoria Rubino Slick tires
Sugino 75BB and cranks
Sugino Mighty Compe 46t chainring
EAI 17t cog
Phil Lockring
MKS Sylvan pedals
Brooks B-17 saddle on a generic Bianchi Seatpost
Nitto CT-80 110mm stem
SOMA drop bars, 39cm


I rode it a few hours over the last two days and I'm a little surprised nothing has fallen apart yet. The brake is sort of moot, but I live on Twin Peaks, and it's a bit of a mind over matter thing. I haven't used it in a month or two and it actually doesn't work well with this fork, so i'll need a longer bolt to work properly.

After finally getting my frame on monday, I ran it down to Pacific Bikes on Tuesday at lunch to have my headtube faced and bottom bracket faced and chased. That night I ran over to Bike Kitchen and pressed in the headset and installed the bottom bracket. I was able to cut the steerer tube as well, and luckily it all fit together when I got home that night.

Almost There!

Woohoo! Progess is a wonderful thing.

-Got almost all the parts. I'm just waiting on the frame which will be hear on the 11th of July. Only a few more days! Sadly, I'll be out of town when it gets here, but after 4 or 5 months, I can wait it out.


-Picked up a Nitto CT-80 stem from Business Cycles Got an EAI 17t cog from them as well.



-Got the front wheel all done with some help. After trying to copy the Sheldon Brown wheelbuilding page, and reading the Barnett Manual, I still kept screwing up the 3x rear and making it 2x. After completely taking the rear apart and just copying by a wheel i've got and it worked! Then read the Barnett Manual about truing and dishing and it worked great.

-Wrapped the bars with some cheap-o nashbar wrap and mounted the bars on the stem, just for something to do.
-I'm pretty sure all I need now are some chainring bolts and a seatpost binder. So close!