New bicycle day!
Well, not so much a new bicycle, but a new (to me) frame; a Shiromoto Triathlon Special with an extremely short seat tube, purchased from Kevin Brightbill just this evening. The frame came with a bunch of other stuff attached, most of which has been stripped off and dumped into my parts bin, but the crankset remains attached because I don’t have an octalink remover and haven’t gotten up the courage to try the self-extracting bolt on the nds :-)
This frame needs
- 26" wheels
- dangler (not the heavy Shimano 105 dangler that it came with)
- low-profile seatpost that can be dropped all the way down so it will fit Silas
- A Silas-compatable saddle
- handlebars
- shifters
- fenders
- front rack
- lights
- brakes would be good, too; it came with a pair of single-pivot calipers, one of which I managed to mangle the return spring on when dismantling, and I’d rather replace them with dual-pivot calipers or center pulls.
The wheelset is likely to be the most expensive part of the bike (given that I need to build new wheels for the midlifecrisimobile and trek already, so I’ll just get some good components for this one while I’m at it.)
Comments
Graydon
Fri Nov 16 16:37:08 2012
The rear derailer :-)
David Parsons
Fri Nov 16 22:37:45 2012
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I keep meaning to ask; what’s a dangler?