Hey there, my brother Joseph stopped by to throw a new fork onto his Salsa Vaya Ti this week, so I took the opportunity and snapped a few quick pics of it.
-peter
trying to figure out the size of spacers that are going to be required for these ’08 1000rr tokico calipers. -peter
this is going to be the last project bike I get for awhile (I still have plenty unfinished ones downstairs), no seriously, it is! unless I find something really cool… it’s an addiction 😉 but back on topic, the new frameset is a slightly used (I mean there are a couple of marks, but hell,…
well, it’s always hard to sell a bike, but i decided that five project bikes was just too many for my current budget, and if i wanted to finish them, i’d have to thin out a bit. so off the purple ’93 Trek 930 SHX Singletrack goes, sadly, parting it out. -peter
A big update here. So, the big reveal! Haha, or something like that. Two and half weeks ago I spent an afternoon packing the fork, stem, spacers, and frame together and I shipped it all down to Ruckus Composites in Portland, OR to have it all paint matched to the frame. Less than a week…
so the funky Spooky build of mine continues, now I’ve added an S900 10s GXP 110mm spider (part number, 11.6115.547.010) and a set of 2014 Sram X Glide Compact Chainrings 46/36 11s chainrings into the mix. this took just a bit of work, mostly filing down a small part of the front derailleurs spring (SRAM…
So, yeah… it’s been awhile. The last couple of years have been pretty much solely spent on fixing up the project house that my long term partner and I purchased. This has left very little time and additional funds to spend on fun projects, such as the unfinished Triton and Trek 950 (I sadly have…