Rawland Stag 3.0 build has been dragging on for months and months, finally did finishing touches last week!
Screen capture of current parts list/price spreadsheet:
Significant changes:
- Covered up almost all of the Rawland Stag viking iconography and name with blue/purple reflective geometric / crystal / diamond decals.
- Rebuilt the rear wheel with different lacing pattern and new spokes/nipples since I broke dozens of spokes with previous lacing pattern.
- Brand new drivetrain, out with indexed 10-sp downtube Dura Ace/Campy Record levers, in with SRAM 22 Red/Rival shakes. First time oiling freehub body pawls on White Industries hub.
- New narrow Paul Touring brakes to pair with SRAM lever pull in purple ano, as a treat. Trying out some generic sparkly purple brake housing from eBay with colorful ferrules and cable caps.
- Found some Ritchey EvoCurve handlebars in silver (discontinued?) to match the SRAM levers, updated to 31.8 stem standard. New Fizik purple tape is probably too thicc but feels so nice.
- New chainrings, cassette & chain (those IRD Lobo chainrings are beautiful compared to generic Sugino)
- Sewed new mudflaps similar to those on my Elephant NFE but added a previously-used capped brake cable loop inside for rigidity on windy downhills. Rear flap I made some diamond cutouts and backed with reflective 3M tape.
- Improved dynamo wiring, added some VO R-clips as guides in places I’ve never tried before.
