SWB0 Sublime time

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Going to go with the sublime, most likely going to completely strip the bike, not sure of colour scheme but will leave the frame colour as is, I may go polished alloy or chrome, I may go black or I may paint parts, most likely a 1x 7 or 1x 8 gearing, I have no plan for direction, my shed is full and just scored more bikes, frames and a couple boxes of parts left under a tarpaulin, got a forest of a yard to hack down and mow + a house inspection around the corner soo brother is busy as hek, so no time for an all out intense build it will be an in-between other stuff build, and it's our summer too 28-30c

 

[Glen]

I wondered if you would be doing a build this time.

Stay in the shade.

Glen.

 

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I wondered if you would be doing a build this time.

Stay in the shade.

Glen.

Yer I've missed a few just been busy or just plain not in the mood, hope all is well with you and will need to catch up

 

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A nice cool evening to strip the bike down
Was cool enough after 9pm working under the security lights, i think i will go with the blue/white frame as is and do a mix of alloy and white parts

 

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Good clean up of the frame, the chain slap protector on the chain stay was a mission,it was very elastic almost like clingfilm/sticker combined took about half hour to remove and then some time to remove the residue but done now

 

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Cleaned the V brakes, deraileur hanger, deraileur, seatpost and sanded, primed and painted the lower heaset cup

 

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I notice with my phone that when I take pictures sometimes and you see it go to the corner of your phone so you know you took it but when you go to pictures it's not in your photos file, I know it has to be a Samsung thing ( I hate Samsung but this one was cheap cos it had a cracked screen and needed to update my phone) annoying when your out and about and you think you got a cool pic only to find out it's not saved, anyway one pictures of the deraileur is the replacement barrel adjuster

 

[SwissGuy]

I notice with my phone that when I take pictures sometimes and you see it go to the corner of your phone so you know you took it but when you go to pictures it's not in your photos file, I know it has to be a Samsung thing ( I hate Samsung but this one was cheap cos it had a cracked screen and needed to update my phone) annoying when your out and about and you think you got a cool pic only to find out it's not saved

That's probably some Android thing, as it happens to me as well sometimes on my Motorola ...

 

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That's probably some Android thing, as it happens to me as well sometimes on my Motorola ...

I've got an old and newish Huawei and never an issue but the old one is too slow and the new one doesn't support Google play thanks to that whole spying debacle so stuck with this but agree it will be an android thing

 

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Original bar and stem.......nah they ain't cutting it

 

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Now that's a better stem and bar and I think these brake levers suit

 

[Ed Stately]

Now that's a better stem and bar and I think these brake levers suitView attachment 257433View attachment 257434

Great looking levers for sure.

 

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Yup simple design, for those that dont know they are inline levers so you can run a drop bar and drop bar levers and run the brake cable up and through the inline lever as well so you can run two rear and two front levers the purpose being you can use brakes on the flat bar part and in the drop position also

 

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Quick update,I've been busy lately so not much done, the wheels are next on the list, I may go with the original wheels and clean them up or continue with the Araya V rims, and if you were wondering it is a ladies centered frame hence the sloping T tube but seems mostly moot in today's market, like the step through frame originally was marketed as a unisex design and then got marketed primarily as a ladies frame,funny how things go depending on one's perspective

 

[BartRidesEternal]

Quick update,I've been busy lately so not much done, the wheels are next on the list, I may go with the original wheels and clean them up or continue with the Araya V rims, and if you were wondering it is a ladies centered frame hence the sloping T tube but seems mostly moot in today's market, like the step through frame originally was marketed as a unisex design and then got marketed primarily as a ladies frame,funny how things go depending on one's perspective

Luckily we have about one and a half month to go

 

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white cables arrived and setting up brakes and gear

 

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I scored an oldish road bike awhile ago stored it in my container,when I went to in yesterday I looked at the wheels which were Shimano RS wheels I thought that's the wheels I want and my white wall tyres would look mint on them so starting to clean the wheels now

 

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Sneak peeks

 

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BB installed

 

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This is turning out to be a nice and clean build, I'm enjoying building this bike as its a bit of a departure from the norm, just need to decide on the chainring size, I have a nice 52t but I know that's too tall even though it looks real nice, might have to go through my roadie parts, hopefully there's something between 39 and 42 tooth, that's the average small ring sizes I come across