Trek Race bike No Longer Rip
For the past few days I have been working on building up my old “Race Bike” (Trek 560) for my older sister. I put a 10 speed 105 shifters with a 10 speed Ultegra Cassette, chain and a double up front. I have gone through and disassembled everything and cleaned it up. There was a lot of dirt and grit so cleaning was quite labor intensive. It should be a Nice bike when its done. We shipped the wheels straight to her, So I am using a loner rear wheel from Jim with a spare speedium tire of mine and old patched tube. For the front wheel I am using the one off the Lemond for sizing and testing. Part of this build is converting the bike from 27″ wheels to 700c. Luckily the brakes had enough reach. I put a spare new set of Kool stops up front to give her some more power braking. I absolutely love those things. Ryan says I will grow fond of this bike and not want to let it go once its built, which I will be sad, but really I enjoy building them so much more. I know one of my long term goals is frame building. Once I can do that I can build a bike from scratch.
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