Come Together...

....Riiiiiight now,

.....Heckle Me.

Well after today's antics, the Heckler is now looking like, well, a bike. After being side tracked for a few hours getting the commuter sorted (new bottom bracket and kevlar lined rear tyre to prevent punctures) it was a productive afternoon building.

Today I had Forman Sean helping me, hence yours truly is in a few of the photos (sorry about that). Lots of snaps for today's blog as well.

Right, firstly, the shims for the stem & handlebar. Attached, pain free. I wanted to get the handlebars on as a total of 6 different controls need to be mounted on them and cabled to the bike; 2x brakes, 2x gears, a gravity dropper and front fork remote lockout.

 

 

 

Main job of the day were the brakes. A bit fiddly to get on, I loosely mounted the levers to the handlebar to keep them from getting in the way while I mounted the callipers and loosely cable tied the cables to the frame mounts to keep it all together. Here I am at my bogun looking best.
 

The callipers have spacer washers with them to get the calliper to sit properly on the rotor. If the calliper is too close the rotor will hit the back of it, too far and there won't be enough "bite" of the pad on the rotor.

The silver callipers are "the" shit as well. They look magic! Now a little trick to get the calliper lined up flush on the disc is to loosen the calliper, apply the brake then tighten. I love this shot, brand new calliper, rotor, hub and cassette. Saucy!

 And here is a token shot of stormin' formin' Sean pretending to help, I guess he had to try and look busy since he drunk all my beer! ;-)

 

Finally, not having a spacer between the stem and frame was bugging the shit out of me so I popped one in. I also put the gold seat clamp on (temporary seat post as the Giant will be donating it's gravity dropper soon).

 

 And the progress score... (note the writing on the tyre lined up with the writing on the rim - a little tip from Sean).

I'm really stoked with how it is starting to look. Still a way to go (gears will be the next job I'd say).

Oh, and artsy fartsy stormin' formin' Sean gave it some mood...

Justin.