Well my excuse is that I'm a bit too busy to manage all my projects. I have a lot of fun conceptualizing my different (mostly road) bike builds.





In the past I based my season's riding on a 3 road bike rotation meaning, that at any given time I could reach of one of 3 different steeds and be out on the road with minimal intervention beyond lubing a chain, and pumping up tires and making sure my blinky battery was fully charged.





Life moves on and a few of my brighter concepts have floundered. I can even provide pictorial evidence, but not right now.





Having stuck with classic Shimano Ultegra and Dura Ace 3x9, 3x10, 2x10, 3x7 builds for practicality's sake, I'm still busting at the seams.





There is the rescued Masi Gran Criterium with the Dura Ace 6600/6603 triple group that is just sitting there waiting for completion, there is the Klein Stage Ultegra 6703 triple waiting for completion, the Trek Multitrack drop bar gravel bike build awaiting proper SunTour XC cantilever mounting, the Klein Performance with the Phil Wood conversion 24mm external bottom bracket conversion, the Klein Quantum awaiting the same install of the Phil external bottom bracket, there this the Cannondale CAAD 9 in both a 56 and a 58 and the Cannondale Six13 needing a water bottle riv-nut. There is the unloved Cannondale Silk Tour in a size Large needing updated, and a second Cannondale T800 in a size small also needing some love.





Then there are the 2 titanium Wittson disc frames that are fully modern with 12x142 through axle rear and 12x100 through axle front that have stockpiled parts and one of which is now going on 2 years mothballed.





This has been a productive and creative process. I am actually very meticulous about all of this. Being divorced and living alone has certain been a factor in my megalomania of these past few years. I sense that this episode is time limited and I will need to reign in all of this to some sort of more organized (pre-retirement) down-sized collection. You might say that instead of going through an "N+1" stage I actually exploded and went through an "N+2" stage. Very educational and my LBS wheelbuilder has built me multiple sets of very sweet custom wheels to go along with all these projects.





Big developments in techniques the past 2 years have included chain waxing and using a 2 or 3 chain system with each bike. Also while I do run clincher tires, I have switched over to latex tubes and tubeless rim tape for increased tire volume and easier tire mounting of open tubular type tires.





Interesting times, just thought I would share.