Christened my new Kona Dew build today. Perfect weather for it! She’s my dew it all adventure, bikepacking, city escaping bike. Turns out it shreds on gravel. I picked up the frame, wheels (ik they’re not 26” I’m sorry) and original flat bars, stem and seat-post for £60. I’ve set it up with deore xt 1×11 with a gold chain. It’s the first build I’ve done to completion myself which I’m chuffed about. Gearing was always the side of mechanics that scared me a bit but feeling a lot more confident now after setting up the new groupset and indexing it correctly myself. That being said I did get help from some wizards at the lbs when fitting a crankset I’d stupidly bought that was too wide and still maintaining a decent chain line.. I ever would of been able to do it!
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Further note: I’m really pleased with the new brooks saddle addition, which I picked up for £40 being a mystery as the dealer had no clue what model it was. Turns out I’d bought one of only 600 saddles made for a French market around 1967 – model is the Brooks Professional Select. New in box were auctioning online for just shy of 1000!
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There are further additions to come but they’ll mainly be gold accents, new bar tape and frame protection, with the wheels and tyres being re-examined later on down the line, money permitted.