Project Black!
and yet another long termer.
I’ve gone for a replacement to my recently deceased old faithful. A chopped and converted Kona Kilaeau frame which has been replaced by, erm, another Kona Kilaeau frame that has been chopped and converted.
This time though I’ve had the good fortune to get a set of Paragon Machineworks sliding dropouts so there’ll be no v brake pad and rim replacement worries with this one. XTR disks will be stopping me on this one, front and back.
I’ve bought my first ever Chris King headset, Hope have very kindly helped out with a pair of my favourite Pro II hubs and a ceramic HT2 bottom bracket. I’m aiming for minimal fettling time and near zero maintainence.
Wheels have been built (on DT 4.1d’s) but not trued yet, I’ve still to source a seatpost (it’s going to have to be Thomson to match the stem), and need to decide on XTR cranks or the new Race Face Next carbons that are calling me….
I’ll be mulling that one over while skiing next week 
Big thanks to Neil @ Hope for the anodising on the sliding dropouts, the attention is all in the detail
March 27th, 2008 at 11:50 am
What fork are you going to be using?, and will this build be in the mag or on the website in a bit more detail?
March 29th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
*Hot off the plane news*
More details should be in the mag, erm, now. And once I’ve recovered from skiing/flying I’ll be putting up an update here too.
Forks? Not sure yet. I’d like to try some Reba Team U turns to dial in the fork length to “just right”, they’re available glossy black too