I did a bad bad thing…….

[vvill]

@bluerider 80851 wrote:

Any input or opinons are welcomed. I am trying to build a great commuting and touring rig with racks and fenders.

Frame: 56cm Salsa Vaya in Smokey Robinson blue

Make it a 54 so I can borrow it.

Great looking selection of parts (…not that I’ve used any of them)
I’ve always wanted to try the Cowbell/Woodchipper style flared dropbars before. Same goes for those TRP brakes.
28/36 should give you great gearing for loaded touring too.

[KelOnWheels]

@vvill 80875 wrote:

Make it a 54 so I can borrow it.

Yeah, what he said!

[bluerider]

Internal Rustproofing is complete. It starts now. Parts are slowly being chosen and ordered.

[bluerider]

And its done. I have a couple small things to add and some adjustments to make but its fitted and rolled. The steering tube will be cut once I am sure on the stem height.

[bluerider]

[Harry Meatmotor]

dude – that thing is freakin’ BOSS!!!

[dkel]

Wow. Soooo nice. Congratulations on that primo build.

[peterw_diy]

The bike looks great, but I wouldn’t cut the steerer tube! If spacers above the stem really bug you, consider flipping the stem so you keep more of that irreplaceable steerer tube!

[hozn]

Nice build! How do the Hy/Rd work? Having used Spyres now for awhile on commuter and road bikes, I will say I really like them, but the stock rotors are not great; the brakes work much better (stop faster) paired with the Avid HSX rotors on my road bike.

Are those old-school friction shifters?

I would definitely cut the stem, I dunno what peter_diy is talking about

[Harry Meatmotor]

one real quick nit to pick – tho the spacer on the ND fork fender mount is clever, i’m seeing catastrophic failure the first time something whacks into that mount (and those rack/fender mounts are pretty easy to bend/ruin). what i’d recommend (of you’re not planning on running a set of low-boy front pannies) is to run the fender stays to the mid-fork braze on. not quite as classy looking, but much less exposed to possibly bending and ruining the threads on the dropout rack mount. my 2 pennies.

edit2 – you might even be able to run the fender stays to the interior mid-stay braze-on, depending on how wide the tires are and how tightly that bends the stays. might actually be pretty trick since you’ll keep the exterior braze-on to mount up some low-boys.

@hozn 84882 wrote:

How do the Hy/Rd work?

My experience so far at the shop is that they’re a compromise. They pretty much require the Yokozuna compressionless housing, and good luck getting the OEMs to spec housing that’s 5-6 times more expensive than bulk non-compressionless. If you’re doing a frame up build and use the Reaction housing, the HY/RDs will probably feel pretty good.

[hozn]

@Harry Meatmotor 84896 wrote:

My experience so far at the shop is that they’re a compromise. They pretty much require the Yokozuna compressionless housing, and good luck getting the OEMs to spec housing that’s 5-6 times more expensive than bulk non-compressionless. If you’re doing a frame up build and use the Reaction housing, the HY/RDs will probably feel pretty good.

Yeah, I am running Reaction housing with the Spyres and they feel great, but you’re right that it is damn expensive stuff. My only other issue with the dual-piston design is that the calipers stick out more on the inboard side. I get spokes rubbing with (front) wheel flex with the BHS hubs. The Novatec hubs on road wheels don’t have this problem. I imagine the design is different enough that this would not apply to the Hy/Rd.

[bluerider]

Hozn,
The TRP Hy-Rd so far is amazing. There is a lot of braking power and the lever feel is very nice. I read a lot of complaints about feel with SRAM levers. The newest version took care of this problem. The brakes are very impressive and super quiet.

[bluerider]

Harry,
I am waiting on a Tubus Nova stainless front rack to mount the fenders. The spacer is specifically spec’d by PDW for their fenders but I agree with you. Its a little exposed and looks a little strange. It will be changed soon. Thankfully, I didn’t need to use them in the rear.

[bluerider]

Hozn,
I almost forgot. The shifters are sort of old school friction. They are SRAM 500TT shifters with the mounting bodies removed. Then mounted on Paul Components Thumbies. Indexed in the rear, friction on the front. Easily accessible with my thumb and fore finger. Plus, DIRT SIMPLE.

[bluerider]

For those interested, I placed the entire build component list on my blog, The DCyclist. Let me know if you have anymore questions. Yesterday, I added some Paul Components skewers to it which really look awesome.

http://dcyclist.wordpress.com/the-bikes-of-the-dcyclist/

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