OneDrive informs me that one year ago today I took delivery of a new bicycle frame, a Crust Lightning Bolt Cantilever. I had bought it completely as an impulse purchase, based, as I'm sure is common on the insanely positive review in Bicycle Quarterly combined with the slick "Galaxy" colorway.
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| OneDrive photos of the newly arrived Crust CantiBolt |
Because I hadn't really intended to buy the bike, I wasn't really prepared to actually put it together. I just didn't want to miss out on getting one of these extraordinary frames in my size. So until the last few weeks the frame has just been sitting in its box waiting to be turned into a frame.
Since that time I have collected a bunch of the necessary parts to complete the build. Lingering covid-19 supply chain problems have caused delays and increased expense, though last week I had the frame prepped and headset installed by the fine team at Just Riding Along Bicycle Shop in Laytonsville, Maryland. Really great shop, and they speak "steel".
In the coming weeks I'll be writing up a detailed description of the build process and spec. For the moment, here's how it's looking:
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| Crust CantiBolt with headset, bottom bracket and seat post installed |
The stem is not what will ultimately be installed (it'll be way shorter), the seat post is not set to the correct height (it too will be way shorter), but I wanted to put enough of the pieces together to make it start looking like a bike.
Nothing else to report just yet, but for those of you interested in such things, there will be more to come soon.
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