Well not mine, and not an ex but an EX. More specifically an EX9. My customer finally brought me his frame, and bis old Cake to do some parts swapping. The only things we were removing was the Fox Fjork (shout out to Dicky) which is his baby. It's been Push'd and he cannot live without it. The chain and cassette were also removed considering their 2 months of use. And the front derailleur. That got replaced when I refused to work on his SRAM XGen front derailleur. Or should I call that pile of crap.
The parts were ordered and things look great. The Cane Creek 100 headset is awesomely smooth. I love the machined finish it sports. It wasn't buffed down before ano. The only thing tricky is Cane Creek only warranties it for 2 years! HEAR THIS. Only 2 years. So no lying to people and telling them they warranty it for 100 years like it's similar brethren the 110 headset. Not the case. Either way, My Dillinger will probably be getting one for the sake of carbon/suspension cross compatiblity between bike. So I don't have to swap crown races.
The bars and post sport some new jazzed up graphics for 2009 which look good. The basically added white. Hot. Race X Lite bars, stem and post. They held up to two years of abuse under this guy and never quivered. Tough stuff. Especially the post. Just as white will probably be making a little scoot out of style I bet this season. Maybe not though. Either way it looks good. Other control goodies feature Avid Code Disc brakes and X9's laced up with some Matchmakers to clean things up on the bar. Goodness.
Codes being overkill you say? No way. More pad life, later braking and only a slight weight gain over Juicy 7's. We were going to step up rotor size on a new set of Juicy 7's when I got thinking. The Juicy's feature lever bushings that go to sh*t over the course of a season. Yes the are easily replacable, but when you can have sealed bearings why not. Also when you can have that lighter rotor on a wheel which is rotating and larger pads for that extra stopping power, why not. Also the smaller rotors due build heat faster, but that's what the 4 pistons are for. Larger pistons dissapate heat faster as due more pistons. Also smaller rotors resist warping better I feel due to being stiffer at a similar thickness to the larger rotors. I always have more run out on my 180mm front rotor than the 160mm fronts I run.
The bottom bracket is brought to you by Chris King folks. Silvery and slippery smooth, and hopefully long lasting as this customer needs it. He kills 1 or two of the GXP style bb's a year. Hopefully this will take care of that. Also since his passion of hatred for Shimano (not his fault, he had a first run of the 960 XTR stuff, non shop guy mistake, never buy a first run of anything) I got him a clean looking Deus XC crank in silver. Classy and styley while featuring chainrings and spline interface that is worth a darn. Yes I am pointing at you FSA. Your old spline on the MegaExo carbon cranks that had to be loctited were a joke!
Otherwise the build rounds out with XO rear derailleur, his old X9 front derailleur, PG990 cassette. His wheels are currently in que down in Ashville, NC being laced up by the fine folks at Industry Nine. Black hubs, Silver spokes, and Black No Tubes Flow rims. Tires will be Weirwolf UST's with hopefully a future upgrade to a non UST but equally tubelessable 2.3 version.
So that was my Monday. The weekend was spent watching the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona while on the trainer on Saturday, and skiing for about 2.5 hours on Sunday. Rode into work on Monday and dominate some snow. Today I am going to get on the trainer and hopefully get the ache out of the legs. Enjoy the pics
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