A city tourer converted into an audax bike
The Street Wise is definitely hot in the city. The touring frame’s constructed by hand with Reynolds 501 butted main tubes and Unicrown forks. A Street Wise choice of lightweight components include Shimano Exage 300 LX 21-speed transmission with STI levers; Hyperglide and Superglide functions; Biopace chainrings and slar brakes. Pain work is a ping green split and a ladies open frame version is available. Get Street Wise and ease on down the road.
After a disastrous puncture that woudln’t, seal I bought new tyres with an additional 2mm. Now running Eagle F1 R which turned out to be very difficult to fit despite them being one of the easier tubeless tyres to fit. Took a total of 3 hours to seat both tyres. I believe I need an additional strip of rim tape to make them tighter as this was a very painful process.
Added a Tortec Ultralite 560g pannier rack
Replaced front cantilever with a newer less complicated Shimano CX-50. Increases braking power and adds the feature of a quick release so I don’t have to deflate the tyre when removing the wheel. Try as I did to move away from the cantilevers I had to move back. Now the front and rear are Shimano CX-50 which I have found remarkably easier to set up than the older model.
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| BR-AT50 | Shimano CX-50 |
I replaced the rear BR-AT50 with a Tektro 930-al mini v
