Progress photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/orthie251/albums/72157680299609103/with/34450768136/
After a long day at work getting, among other things the Betty ready to ship to its new home (bittersweet), I came home in the evening and started the build of my Hubbuhubbuh. By midnight, I had accomplished everything you can see in the photos, where by the way, you can also see the awesome decals it sports. Had not trouble anywhere, except on the installation of the rear disc brake, where the rotor I had chosen rubs the Shimano adapter. If the mount on the frame was a mm or two more outward, it would have worked perfectly. This is a hope rotor that has the new isolation or whatever for the disc rotor, probably total overkill for the tandem, but I had it from another project. A standard flat rotor won't rub, so I'm getting one of those. No biggie here. The Silver cranks are totally awesome. I had mixed feelings when I ordered them based on the photos, but didn't feel like putting it all together from scratch with Sugino cranes, and the René Herse I love on my single bikes are just too expensive and unjustifiable at this time. But when I took them out of the box and installed them, I was blown away. They look fantastic and the guards are just so cool. You can see them in the photos. You can also see where I'm planning to place the thumbie for the disc brake, a place where it's easy to use yet doesn't get in the way of the hand positions. I'm planning to use barend shifters on the tips of the handlebar so I can easily shift without potentially compromising the control of the bike, and so I keep the handlebars free. Over time, I'll see if the preferences change. The new Bosco treadless handlebar is awesome as you can see. I was planning on going with Chocos, but I think it'll stay this way, at least for now. I had already purchased the Nitto high rise stem to use with the Chocos, so when the new wider sleeved Chocos arrive, I'll get one to have as backup alternative, just in case. Had a big family debate regarding the pedal and cabling colors. I think the cabling will be blue as shown, white turned out to be too bright and out of context, gray is boring and in most of my bikes anyway, so I was concerned the blue cables would look too weird, but I think it looks good and my wife and son liked them. So we'll see when it's all cabled. Got some blue pedals as well, but they don't match the color of the cables and it's just too much, so they're going back and will use silver pedals. These Vault pedals are just my favorite. Wide, grippy, very comfortable. The saddles are a matching pair of B67 and B67S Select, so I'm hoping my wife will love it. If necessary at first, I'll add some padded cover. Rides are going to be very short initially anyway. She's quite nervous about it, but I told her everything that went wrong would be my fault, and there would be no pressure to ride on the street until she's absolutely ready for it, however long it takes. The Compass 48mm wide tires look awesome and should ride like that as well, based on how all my other Compass tires ride on my bikes. These, however, are not the ultra-light, but rather the regular casing version heeding Theo's advice at Compass tires. Just in case. The wheels are custom made by Rich using 4-cross (Grant was very impressed) 40 spokes on White Industries hubs. They look amazing! As much as I would love to finish the build this weekend, I'm still waiting for the polished Motolites, which hopefully will ship out next week. I'm taking the fork to have the steerer tube cut, as I don't have the special tool to do the straight cut and it's not worth getting it as this is not a usual task I do at home. Got some special edition set of Carradice tweed roll and Barley bags to put the finishing touch on the Hubbuhubbuh when I'm done. My wife approved of them when she saw them, and appreciated the fact that I had sold a number of other bags during the week, so that was good! Needless to say, had RBW had the SaddleSack and tube bags in blue to make a matching set, I'd have gone for those! Enjoy and stay tuned for more! René On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Julian Westerhout <westerh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Daniel, > > As Vince explained it to me, there are two variations depending upon size > of HHH. We have a large, and the kit included a 203mm rotor, a Shimano > Acera disc brake, and an appropriate rotor/brake mount. The cost of these > was $51. There were also several options for controlling it -- I opted out > of those as we're going to use a vintage Suntour XC thumb shifter on the > stoker handlebar to control the drag brake. > > Julian Westerhout > Bloomington, IL > > > On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 6:46:08 PM UTC-5, Daniel Jackson wrote: >> >> Julian, >> >> What's included in the disc drag brake kit? >> >> Thanks, >> D. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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