Originally Posted by
cyclotoine
wait, what? You got a 1" stear tube? What size are the other tubes? May I ask why you didn't go oversized?
Tubing is the standard sizes for Dave's JKS bikes, and probably all of his customs I'd suspect. You'll have to ask him if his JK-X (double oversize) uses a 1 1/8" steerer or not.
Originally Posted by
buldogge
Strip and polish one of the Ritcheys, or use one of the VO/Dimension silver stems.
Having said that...The black post/stem/rims thing is working pretty well for it.
What color cabling...Black, white, or silver???
Looks great!...Love the blue!!...Reminds me a 60's Jag/Lotus ice blue but deeper.
Thanks. Housing, at least for now, will be Campagnolo standard black. I've considered silver or white, but that'll be decided down the road. I've got the Campy stuff, might as well use it.
As far as the stem goes, I put on the standard 4-axis I had in the parts box, it looks much more fitting to the frame than the '44' version did. The '44' was kind of a rounded square cross section instead of round. May look at home on the Fuji, but not this bike. I've also been playing with mixing the all silver 2.5mm spacers with the black knurled 5mm spacers. I think I like the look, so am going to go with that. 2 5mm spacers and 2 2.5mm spacers under the stem, and one of each on top should give me enough adjustment space to work with for the future. I rolled the Kirk up next to my serotta and looks like the saddle-to-bar drop will be just about the same with the 15mm of spacers (per Dave's spec) as what I have now.
One thing I have noticed is that the BB on the Kirk is a fair bit lower than the Fuji. It's about the same place as the Serotta, haven't compared it to the Gazelle yet. Always felt like the Fuji was higher up, guess I never really noticed that it really was till now.
So the plan tomorrow is get up, go for a ride on the Serotta, get back, get up to the shop to get the chain and steerer setup, then get the bars and cables put on. Decided against doing the bars/etc first since they're going to have to pull the fork off anyways and don't want a loose dangling unwrapped handlebar floating around the frame. So, hopefully I'll get a shake down cruise in by mid-afternoon. Forecast says warm and a bit windy, but I'm not waiting any longer than I need to.