And still the process of assembling this new bike goes on. It's amazing all the piddly little tasks that have to get done when you build a bike up 'kit form', knowing that you are going to make some of it up as you go.
Progress today:
Unpackage cables and snake out the old basic Jagwire. Realize that Shimano's slick, sweet, bloody spendy 9000 derailleur cable kit includes 2 inner derailleur cables, but only 1.2 outer cables. Yup - they assume all bikes have a partial cable for the front derailleur. Clue stick time. I'm hoping that one of the pro level shops here in town stocks that housing, not just the kits. Cheap b@strds.
Realize that in order to really do my setups, like measuring cables, I need to stand on two wheels. I've got a pair of Challenge Almanzos all set to go on the bike, but I need rim strips. *@&#!$. Not just any rim strip - it's gotta be a wider one... No, I'm NOT using gorilla tape. Ever clean that stuff off? And no, I'm not setting them up tubeless until I get a second set of wheels so I can have two sets of tires mounted.
So tonight was spent doing the piddly stuff - like putting anti-seize on Ti bolts, torquing brake rotors, taking measurements off my existing bike in order to duplicate them on the new one - stuff that occupies time.
~marsh
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