Step 4 - Components

Tying up a lot of loose ends at the minute with this build, and most of those loose ends are down to the bikes components. As you can see, all the parts here are black, which is the general theme... black parts on a white frame. The wheels have come up really nicely. I got the original 8 speed cassette off and fitted the single speed conversion kit, great. The 700x23 Vittoria tyres fit and look superb. Just need to wait until the wheels are on the bike to sort out the spacing around the sprocket for sake of chain alignment. The black headset arrived, looks great. Got some alloy flat bars, looks good with the stem as they are a similar finish. Got a post from Ebay, but it's smaller in diameter than the  25.4 mm stamp on it, but all's good with the use if the silver shim you see around it. The carbon forks need a bit of a clean and the headset crown race knocking on to them. Keeping things clean and tidy will be helped by the mudguards, which are minimal lightweight items suitable for use with slim tyres and racing bike frame and forks.  All looking good, just need a few more bits like a saddle, chain, brake cable. But on the subject of brakes, I can't use the levers I've previously talked about. They are for oversized bars, my bars are standard size and I thought I'd be able to use shims to fit them. But placing them over the bars it looks like this wouldn't be realistic as the shims would need to be crazy thick, not an off the shelf item.