How perceptive of you!!

We are waiting on a handlebar and some fenders/mudguards plus a couple of other odds and sods from ChainReaction. The Wiggle package arrived yesterday with the LX brakes for each bike, and a new crankset for mine, plus all the cabling. But the brakes aren't much good without the travel agents, so we are awaiting those from St John St Cyclery.

I am, however, having extreme difficulty in getting any communication out of a local bike shop that parades (or should that be charades?) itself as an on-line seller. This is for the Mavic A719 rims, the two Shimano front dynohubs, and the rear LX hubs... do you think they will respond to my order or either of my two emails? It's Cecil Walker Cycles in Melbourne, and it just goes to prove that our LBSs here have a lot to learn about timely response to people's orders. I said to Machka yesterday that if the orders aren't completed by the end of this week, I will cancel and get complete Dyad wheelsets from Velocity through another bike shop. The wheels on Machka's Thorn at the moment are Dyads from my old Fuji Touring and they look quite good.

I am still hoping to have the bikes ready for a shakedown tour by Easter.