Oh, hey, I chased some (all) the threads with a tap. Guess the paint folks weren’t that fastidious.
Replaced the millions of steel bolts for bottle cages and whatnot with aluminum ones.
New BB. BSA is glorious and swapped the old BB from the Lemond but it had a cracked plastic bit so… a new one, which was Dura-Ace and like $30 instead of a $200 Hambini one and it likely won’t creak because BSA is glorious.
Was pretty sure I’d messed up the front brake hose when I installed it, that is, I didn’t use the right nut which was the flange nut. Figured I’d have to remove the barb and olive and replace, so I ordered a new barb and olive, which were $6ea because I don’t know if not-Shimano are any good, and I ordered four because extra and I ordered a brake hose because I wasn’t sure if the hose would be too short. Then I received everything I needed to finish the brakes except for that one olive and barb and got impatient and stopped at the LBS by my house to see if on the off chance they’d have one, so I did and I asked for a hose because I thought I might need that too, but it was a jagwire hose, so I asked for just the olive and barb so I could have extra and then bought the whole lot because support LBS and all and once I got home, I pulled the front brake hose and it was fine, i.e. the olive was not compressed, so I just slipped the correct flange nut on there and cinched it up. Then I got tired and neglected to finish it all anyway.
Borrowed the seat and chair pole from the Polyvalent to see if the chair pole on the winter ruiner was causing the creak only to notice the seat collar on the ruiner was making the creaking sound as I loosened it. Was that far along anyway, so continued the swap and didn’t tighten the collar so tight this time and it made zero noises on the way in to work this morning.
first spin around the block, handlebars were loose, yay!
brakes need adjustment, yay!
feels light, fast, comfortable during my extended ride around the parking lot
haven’t tested shifters during ride yet, that up next
overall I’m happy and excited to get in a longer ride this weekend
It’s been fun to watch this thing take shape. Is every single part off brand chinacarbon? This has been such an interesting experiment in late stage global capitalism. Wait, I think I see sram cronks.
