Favorit Road

This is my fast bike, on which I go far. It is only about 2 weeks old, but I have put a lot of miles on it already.

The black tape on the right side drop bar is a result of a rushed putting the bike in a trunk of a car job on my part. That happened on day two of the bike exsistence.

So far I am really impressed with the SRAM Double Tap system. I was a little frustrated when I was putting it together, but that was more due the fact that it was 2:30 in the morning when I was trying to set it up and was more than little drunk.

Because it is such an old frame, some configuring was required to make the modern equipment work. First, I had to re-space the frame from 126.5mm to 130mm to accommodate the new hub. Then I had to get creative with the cable routing, which took three tries, but now works very well.

The rim choice came after a lot of research and humming an hawing. I have a pair of Mavic Open Pros sitting in my apartment, which would make the wheelset a lot sexier, but given my extremely happy experiences with Alex rims in general, and the extremely low weight of the R400(410g), the more I thought, the more sense it made to build with them.

Please, if you have some feedback, let me know. I have put a lot of time and thought into this build, and am looking forward to many long miles on it.