It's been a busy week, so I do apologise for being a little tardy on the blog updates. It wasn't until I recieved a few grief stricken calls and e-mails from followers, who seemed to be spiralling into severe withdrawal symptoms, that I simply had to satisfy their craving. So here is your "hit".
Procured a 10 speed chain and a 10 speed cassette (with 12 tooth small ring and 36 tooth large ring). SRAM of course. Picked these up for a fairly good price, nothing to gloat about though. So I will refrain. But then I just noticed the cool shirt I am wearing in this photo. My over-worn "8-bit 4 life" video game shirt. I am the antithesis of a "gamer" so this shirt is apt for me, given my gaming career ended in the 90's. I could have just said I am a non-gamer, but I was looking for somewhere to throw in that fancy word - and words like that just exacerbate your perception of my adroitness now don't they?).
Now, believe it or not there are different chains depending on how many gears you have on your cassette. It comes down to the widths needed to squeeze more rings on the cassette. These two items are case in point about how many freakin' configurations you can have and how easy it is to balls things up if you don't know what you are doing. Thankfully, most of the online toy stores...<I mean bike stores>... allow you to return parts if they are wrong. I guess I am not the first douche bag to bite off more than he can chew and build up a bike from scratch.
Do you want to know what addiction is? Having dreams about bikes. Sometime in the last week or so I dreamt you can get cassettes in 12,13,14 speeds. Which to my knowledge you can't. Why would I dream that?!
Anyway peoples, I do hope your day is, or has been the antithesis of bad ;-)
Progressive costs:
Actual: $1522.26
Estimated: $1238.30
If RRP: $2840.98
Justin.
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