Getting there
After a little bit of surgery, I now have a properly fitting free radical for my Trek. There are a few tiny things that need to be tweaked (I need to grab a cantilever brake for the rear wheel, it’s possible I need to have the axle pulled and replaced with one that’s a little bit longer, and I need to sit down and whittle a tiny aluminum wedge to shim between the top cringingly named attachment plate and the now-truncated attachment tongue on the free radical (the chainstays tilt down towards the crankset, but the ntat does not, so if I bolt it all together as tightly as the instructions say, that might be a little bit more high tension than I want it to have,) but there’s a lot more there there than there was when I first walked into Clever Cycles and asked to be xtracized.
I probably won’t get the conversion done tomorrow, but perhaps wednesday, and then I can see how the thing feels during a 40 mile (~3 hours, which is about all I can fit in while the bears are off at school) ramble around East Portland.