The final piece - a blue alloy Raceface 30T "cinch" chainring appeared early in the mail on Friday.
With a ride scheduled for Saturday, I got to work finishing the wheel - tape, valve stem, new 2.30 Minion DHF and sealant all came together quickly. My only mistake was putting the tire on backward (a requirement) but the do-over was quick. No need for the compressor, this tech is getting really good.
I re-used the 180mm Magura rear disk - its a big heavy steel Center Lock version that will outlast me, bolted up the new 10x51 CS7100 12sp cassette and the wheel was done.
Removal of the Raceface Affect Crankarms was a pain - I had used Red Lock-tite aka the permanent stuff to keep the bolt from unwinding as it likes to do, so much leverage on the 6mm allen wrench was required. An even bigger pain was having to return to the office to get my big breaker 3/8 wrench and bottom bracket attachment so I could remove that 'cinch' bolt on the other side of the old chainring.
Drive to office, grab off desk, and return, off came the bolt. Keeping too many tools at office is a problem, I mean I had 2x of these there. Anyway.
Next step was adding the chain, and shortening it a bit to keep the chain tight enough to avoid sagging/touching the chainstay - It was lose before.
And there it is - shiny new wheel, fresh tire, clean cassette chain and chainring. I even fixed some of the bent pins on the Blue Raceface Chesters.
A pleasant side effect of adding a new rear-wheel to the Santa Creme is gaining an old carbon wheel with a Minion ready to go! I put the old 11 speed 11x46 cassette on, tightened up some bolts, and viola, the Meta HT is back!
Remove the big fender, wash down the winter mud now dust...
Its a bit of a hot rod now - fatty on the back, thin up front. It rides that way too.
Now this drives the next project - build the next light bicycle rim on a 15x100 Chris King or go 15x110 on something new and get a new fork? I paid to get the existing Pike rebuilt, but its not perfect. In theory I can space out a 15x100 to 15x110 but its not a great result either. Best to see how good this Chris King front hub really is - destroying the wheel might be a pitty all by itself.
