Got a couple more items in the post today, all courtesy of Wiggle:
Hope Jockey Wheels
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| Bling... |
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| bling bling... |
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| bl-bling bling... bling. :p |
Middleburn Chainring bolts:
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| Minor bling... although not too much. |
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Cos I know you want to know
how tight to tighten then right?! |
All a bit blingy but hey, sue me. :)
I hesitate to say these are the last 'bits' to go on the bike, but the bike is now pretty much complete for the time being and I actually rode the thing for the first time today!!! Woop!
Middleburn Crankset
Finally I got to actually 'build up' the crankset properly, putting on the old Middleburn rings that I'd salvaged off the Marin and fixing the crank onto the bike properly:
Added a good few dabs of the old 'cake mix' (anti-seize grease!) first to the rings, the last lot ended up being welded on so don't really want that to happen again (not sure it will make a lot of difference here because the bolts are aluminium rather than steel like the last lot... still, won't harm):
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| Anti-seize in top left, yum! |
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| Non-bling for the granny ring... |
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| The final product! |
So, pretty pleased with that. The old chainrings look a bit scuffed so the proof will be in the riding now. After a quick ride out today they seemed to be ok and shifting fine (after adjusting the derailleurs, see below), although there was a bit of rubbing somewhere so will have to look at that later.
The other thing is I didn't actually apply any Loctite / thread lock as the instructions suggested - mainly because I don't have any, but also because I may well end up putting new rings on within a few months anyway so bit pointless locking them down tight just yet.
With all that, here's a picture of them on the bike proper:
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| Finally! On the bike... |
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| Adjusting the middle chainring derrailleur chain line |
So, all good. :)
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