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It was unique. Cut-down frame, custom bars, custom shifter. It would be an interesting exhibit. The museum can have the shock pump.

I am going to need that information at some point in the future.

Bugger indeed. A short skewer is not much fun. I know all this rigmarole will be worth it eventually. It was last time.

I have the wheels. The cassette is fixed on the hub. The skewer is too short. Has somebody cursed me?

DF riders are always wining about the pain and discomfort their bikes cause them, which causes recumbent riders great amusement. Do not let them know about your chafing legs. You will never live it down.

Extremely neat cables. I know not how you do it. My cables are always a mess. The ones on the Silvio probably caught the thief's foot.

Really? I got Shimano because I could not find Sram. I want short cranks, so I had to get 5-bolt. I think this might be a mistake. The only chainrings which fit 5-bolt are for the original 11speed XX1(Ooo, so old fashioned! Where have you been, daddio?). All the 12sp rings are...

Damn! Shimano only has 51 teeth. @kling will have a bigger dinner plate than mine.

Hyperglide is Shimano. Unless I am even more confused than I thought I was.

That thing looks so mean! My green 2020 S40 frame is still waiting for the bits to arrive. I could not find Sram gears or hub anywhere. You must have nabbed the last ones. Now you have stolen the attention of the vicarious builders!

Been there, done that. Being there, doing that. You might be able to find some hen's teeth. Just make sure they are for Sram and not Shimano.

Waxing the wheels? No, no! I got 11speed wax! I got mountain wax instead of road wax! This was is for Enve and I have DT Swiss! Or something or other. I managed to do everything else wrong.

It does sting when they go flying past. I just have to suck it up. Had Cruzbike been selling the S30 instead of the S40 frame when the Silvio got stolen I would have bought it.

Maybe I will enjoy it so much I will ride further than I have done before, and find new ground. Frame-waxing, boom-polishing, there is no hope for me. Apart from the hubs.

Finally I have all the bits. I even waxed the frame, but I did not polish my boom. Today I went to collect the wheels. For some reason I started chatting to the bloke in the bike shop. I told him I have a Shimano 12sp cog at home. He said the hub has the wrong driver body. Imagine my...

Silvio is a classic commuter. Better than the Grasshopper. The last modification I did was bolting an Easy Reacher rack, onto which I put Restrap clip-on panniers. So the bastards got those for free. The S40 is called an endurance road bike. I assume it can endure the traffic jams and parks...

Kraftwerk again - Die Mensch-Maschine. The man-machine is a bicycle.

Tour de France by Kraftwerk. My white bicycle is gone. I am replacing it with a green one. Same colour as the Grasshopper. How am I going to tell them apart?

I agree.

typical awkward unhelpful behaviour of a bicycle. Worse than children. Reading this makes me and the vicarious builders worried about my impending 12sp build. Assuming the bits ever turn up.