One big picture item: INVENTORY. Over the last 4 or 5 years, I've gotten into the habit of stocking up on almost everything. I keep an eye out for deals, closeouts, etc. Spend $40 here, $60 there, maybe $100 every once in a while. Then, when a frameset comes around, a complete bike materializes from the inventory. Some things are weird in the size and fit department. Front derailers and bottom brackets for example, I probably have 10 to 12 of each and even then don't always have what I need. I've got 5 or 6 rear ders, 5 or 6 sets of friction shifters, along with barcon and thumbie and stem mount bases. I've got 3 or 4 sets of Noodles and a bullmoose. Something like 15 sets of tires. Lots of bags and racks. Several nice 27.2mm seatposts. A couple nice spare saddles. I'm kind of low on cranksets, so that will get beefed up this winter. It's really gratifying when you finish what really amounts to a $2500 build and only spent $700 for a frameset because I shopped for all my parts from my own stock.
One tiny detail item: I always plug all frame and fork vent holes with a tiny kneaded up blob of beeswax. On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:52:32 AM UTC-8, jbu...@gmail.com wrote: > > 1) Tape the bars with brakes locked hard-closed, so that underlying > cable routing doesn't "squirm about" once you're on the road. > > 2) Run shift cables (from cockpit controls) X-style below the DT, > whenever possible. > =- Joe Bunik > Walnut Creek, CA > > On 11/20/13, Kieran J <kjo...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > We Canucks call this stuff hockey tape. Pretty much found in each and > every > > > > hardware and skate shop up here, I suppose that's not surprising.. > > > > KJ > > > > On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:15:20 AM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > >> On 11/20/2013 09:04 AM, Tony DeFilippo wrote: > >> > > > > > >> *Friction tape* is a type of adhesive > >> tape<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhesive_tape>made from > >> cloth <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloth> impregnated with a > >> rubber-based adhesive <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhesive>, and > >> sometimes an abrasive substance, > >> > > > > -- > > 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to > > rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
