After I published my previous post this morning, I realised that a lot of the commentary on my bike building efforts has been about re-doing or replacing components. Some of these have been down to me wanting to upgrade some parts but others have been just a case of not researching enough to learn which bits I needed before I went out and bought them.

So if I ever build another bike from scratch (there’s a good chance I will want to as it’s something I really enjoy doing), I will spend more time researching just how I want the bike to turn out before I go buying parts.