His trekking bars finally arrived from Nashbar. We spent much of the morning trying the bars in various positions without hooking anything up. He went coasting down the road with only the front brake attached. Finally, I think we have a bar position that might be ok. I don't have a stem extender yet, we are still using the adjustable stem off of another bike. That cannot stay on this bike.

I ordered ESI chunky grips as he likes those on his mountain bike. I put them on the sides of the bars. Boy they were tough to get on! I used the short grips that came with the twist shifters to put next to the shifters. The Sram Centera shifters work really nice but take up a lot of real estate. I just finished cabling things up. I am not sure of my tune job on the front derailleur. It isn't indexed and I am not exactly sure that I got the cable tension right, even following the Park Tool manual. The rear was easy.

The only thing I am not happy about is how to run the cable. I actually ended up with cable running on the riders side of the adjustable stem. Nothing else seem to route right but it looks funny. I used the old housing from the drop bars and most was too long. I cut it off but am not entirely happy. Some likely should be even shorter but I didn't want it too short.

Anyway, time for him to take it for a ride. If thinks work out well I am going to wrap the bars.