Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...

[Midschoolfool]

Hmm. What could I possibly buy.......



220 grams. The only other thing I did not hugely upgrade was the fork. So....

[Chilli Rinse]

44 T SR chainring for my Blue Max, this will sit nicely on the SR spider and cranks.

[Midschoolfool]

Nice dude.

Not been doing much. Got flu after the covid.

I got my pedals though. Holding them is strange
 They literally weigh nothing.

Not brought the fork over yet. Upgrading my PC so I had tons to lug home. It's also very very cold right now so hardly motivating lol

[Chilli Rinse]

Everyone at work was ill leading up to Christmas, colds, flu, Covid, Norovirus the lot. It’s not much better now 🤣 all of this crap takes it right out of you, leaving you with no get up and go to do stuff. Hope you’re on the mend now, rest up as much as you can dude. Bikes can wait, prioritise your health 👍🏼

I’ve been playing with a few road bikes and actually riding too, it feels really good getting some miles in. Illness and the weather has slowed that down though.

Catch up soon mate!

[Midschoolfool]

PB 2 fitted and dialled. Horrid  as always   

To do.. Fit SNAFU tyres.
repaint bars (scratched bad, shit clear)
fit NOS tentacle 2
paint and fit Shadow seat post.

Clean it, because it is absolutely hanging. 

[Midschoolfool]

Well something I never thought I would ever entertain would be chrome wheels. I saw this though and fell in love 



I do have a plan. I know a guy who has built me wheels in the past, and he happens to have chrome Sun Big city Lite rims. So I have pinged him about building me a front one to go with it.

I won't lie, they will very likely end up on my STA. It deserves it the most, given  how long I have had it. 8 years at this point. It was the first proper mid school bike I built after getting into it in 2014.

[Midschoolfool]

To explain it better. The Pork wheels are like bananas. I built them, and truing has never worked for me. I just don't get it, and they are quite complex wheels. As such it needs wheels on so I can remove the ones on there and send them off to be done properly.

So it is likely the STA black wheel set will go on that until they come back. I have  loads of bikes crying out for killer wheels tbh. They have always been very hard to find and or pair together. Probably the hardest bit to locate in mint or NOS condition, especially chrome ones. Chrome rims from the 90s are beyond rocking horse poop at this point without bubbling and  corrosion.

[Midschoolfool]

Yup sorted. Paid 70 for the front wheel. One of these rims (NOS)



On this hub and spokes. Hub is a Prolite I think, all sealed too.

[Midschoolfool]

Oh and this is on its way too.



I need to repaint the bars on the STA and give them some real clear coat. Which I bought yesterday. Only a 250ml can because it is only bars.



I started work on something else for the STA too. One of these.



Just needs a blow over in satin black. I can't believe after over 8 years the STA might actually get finished 

[Midschoolfool]

Bars off.



It's hard to see how bad  they are but they have numerous chips down to the metal and a strange  texture to the clear.



The rest of the bike is perfect. Like, filthy AF,  but nothing a clean won't  sort.

So whilst I was up there Profile BB met Pork, as did the new pedals with Ti axles.

[Midschoolfool]

Front wheel arrived. Spokes were dull  (they are stainless not chrome) hub was  filthy. So I gave the spokes a good going over  with a brillo and then cleaned everything else before applying some ceramic coating.







Rear is coming tomorrow. It will get the same treatment.

[Midschoolfool]

Just couldn't get over the unsealed hub 



And.



Measure. I wasn't sure about the difference but my mate reckons the taper is impossible to machine being so tiny, so it doesn't need it. Any way, I fired this over to him.





So wossit four? well this.



Two birds one stone. Ordered tubes and strips, then ceramic coated the rear after a lot of polishing.



I bought a freewheel also. It is one of the new 30 point of engagement ones, so it is nice and loud.



Hub needs the same polish, though it will no doubt hurt my fingers so I left it for now.



When I get back I will strip the red anno off the shoulders. However, a mate donated a NOS front blowfish with no axle, so I may get it relaced we will see.

For right now the axle is just in there to stop any of it getting lost. So it's flopping around lol. I fitted the Gsport strips and they are now in black bags to keep the dust off 



You can also see the seat post has been restored. It arrived to me with gouges all down the back (you know? always happens if you put one into a dirty seat tube with no grease). So I sanded it all back and gave it some satin black. It too will be fitted. I also got a new bar decal to go with the S one, and the clear coat has now arrived with mum.

At this point I was going to end up fitting the SNAFU tyres I scrubbed up. But when looking for the rim strips and tubes I found these. At 50 quid it was a lot of money but I mean FFS look at those wheels. They deserve nothing less than NOS 2.0 MS4s.



So those are ordered also.