Gears

Front and rear derailleurs bolt on, so nothing really to report there other to observe how much easier it is to set the front-mech height on circular gears than it is on the eliptical ones that my mountain bike has.

Shifters fitted to the bars and the wheels temporarily fitted we have something that looks very rideable indeed.

It was at this point that I started to notice a few things that were going to hold me up.  The first was that the cable holders on the downtube are designed to take adjusters rather than ferrules, so that was one thing to order.  Further along at the bottom bracket I twigged that I would need a cable guide to run the cables back to the derailleurs.  Then finally that I would need a rear brake hanger mounted on the seat-post, so my super-lightweight seat-post clamp wasn't going to work.  All easy things to obtain, none of them expensive and not things that I can get too annoyed about overlooking but frustrating all the same. Unable to complete the cable routing I could at least trim the outers and secure them to the bars with electrical tape.