Thursday, July 19, 2007

A bike is born

Holy crap I built a bike!
IRO Build 01!

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.

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