I've had an idea where to put the sawn off bit when the time comesdidn't that steerer get in the way when you were visualising the cockpit
Kinesis Maxlight FF29 build
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Cubist
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Never mind, it's all obsolete now that 650B is here. According to the authorities 26" wheels are being phased out across the country in a rolling programme starting in Thames area on January 1st 2014. A county at a time bikes will have to be reprogrammed to take the new wheel standards. Assistance is available for the elderly. As the new standard is introduced the 26" wheels will no longer be any use to cyclists. By April 1st 2015 they will have stopped working altogether.
Cubist
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How come you're using inner tubes anyway?
Ahh, well I looked at running tubeless and getting tubeless ready rims and I haven't discounted it for trying in the future but for the moment I was just going for the simple option (read cheap), plus I was surprised to see that a tubeless setup is often heavier than a tubed setup. I guess I wasn't convinced of the benefits for most of the riding I'll be doing but I'm open to persuasion. I think I would like better wheels in the future, so that may be the time I decide.
Incidentally I owe you a mention for putting me onto the Superstar wheels and the ridiculous prices of components in Germany in my original musing thread.
650b stuff is starting to come through now, even a few weeks has made a difference to what's available as the new ranges have come out for 2014. It still has a bit of an emperor's new clothes feel about it to me but manufacturers like Orange and Whyte have all gone with it and 26 seems to have been left in for the youth market by a lot of other manufacturers, downhill notwithstanding.
Yay, finally the pot of money I was going to use for this bike has arrived. It was a long battle and I could probably fill a thread about the complexities of trading ex-company shares in a French bank and then getting the money paid out through various channels and into your own account. Imagine German Bureaucracy without the efficiency and organisation, throw in some French laissez Faire, English confusion and you have it. Anyway I digress.... Will be doing some ordering this week and hope to have something to show next week but not in the detail of a Cubist build 
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Yay, finally the pot of money I was going to use for this bike has arrived. It was a long battle and I could probably fill a thread about the complexities of trading ex-company shares in a French bank and then getting the money paid out through various channels and into your own account. Imagine German Bureaucracy without the efficiency and organisation, throw in some French laissez Faire, English clueless confusion and you have it. Anyway I digress.... Will be doing some ordering this week and hope to have something to show next week but not in the detail of a Cubist build
Well when I got the alert I knew it was too much to hope that Crax had actually built anything...
Not for much longer though, not for much longer.....
Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to the internet shop I go........
Cubist
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If you're looking for crank bargains CRC give you a tenner off any spend over £75 by entering the code SURVEY10 in the checkout box. I've just got an XT 785 chainset for £100. Triples are even cheaper, or Merlin have some deals on. Not much saving for SLX, but I've seen them about for £85
Merlin are also doing some bargaintastic deals on "old" 10 speed SLX... M660 10 speed shifters for £30, M663 rear mech for £30, SLX cassette for £30
I already got the Deore Crankset and was heading down the cheaper 9 speed route, I'll just check them out though. There's currently a 9 speed slx cassette in my basket from crc for 26.99 which is an hg-80. Got some stuff in the bike discount basket of deore shifters 38euro, rear m591 30Euro, front 590 17 euro, x9 chain at 13Euro,2 x Nobby nic's at 40euro, might go and start a Merlin basket too and compare and contrast.......my head hurts......
You know with brakes being the other way around in Germany, can I swop them over? It's probably a simple question but apart from using disc brakes, I've not really had to do any maintenance yet.
And anyone found sheltering 26ers will be deported to a relocation facility, pending rendition.
Surely two Nic's is an overkill? A Ron at the back?
You think. I've got Ron's on another bike, it's not much of a profile. I; m open to persuasion though. Might just nip out to the garage and have a look again.
Also I bought the Deore m590 9 speed crankset, which is listed separately to the 10 speed. I don't know what the difference is though, spacing of the bb or the rings? I'm assuming, maybe wrongly, that this excludes me buying 10 speed kit now?