Bling for the Fargo...

Hmmmm, the Fargo frame uses full-housing cables and has braze-on cable guides under the top tube and along the stays. I've assumed that the housing would be fastened by cables ties, but while poking around the Jagwire site I discovered there are special c-clips to use with the guides.

Never knew about them before but they should make the cabling nice and tidy.

A bit more digging and voilà - bling for the bike. Anodized c-clips in five colours. Cool!

Bags in the Bag...

Very exciting delivery today from Bedrock. From Bedrock Bags that is, not from Fred and Barney.

I ordered them on back on 1 August. Andrew Wracher of Bedrock has been busy and has a longish production queue, but I was happy enough with the wait.

Quality, finish, workmanship is impressive, so it was well worth it. So now it's time to think about a practice pack to find out what fits and what doesn't.

Top: Custom Frame Bag - Dual Zipper Main Pocket With Divider And Non-Drive Side Map Pocket - super deluxe
Centre/Under: Entrada handlebar Bag with Pocket.
Bottom:Coconino Seat Bag with Railwing

So the question arises - just what is the capacity of the Bedrock bikepacking bags I'm going to use.

According to Bedrock, the seat bag has a capacity of 12 litres.

I calculate the capacity of the frame bag at close enough to 10 litres and the handlebar bag at 7 litres.

In addition I'll be using three bags on Anything cages at 5 litres each.

That gives a total capacity of 44 litres - about the same as a pair of Ortlieb Back Rollers.

And that is not counting the pocket or cockpit bags, which don't add much to the total capacity but will carry a multitude of small items.

Fargo's cargo is Vargo...

A few posts back I was mulling over ways to consolidate my cookware so it could be carried on an Anything cage. Finding the right size pot was not looking promising, so an MSR Windburner or Jetboil was under consideration - but really, adding another stove to my collection is the last thing I need. In fact I'm soon going to have a stove sell-off.

But today I found the perfect pot - the Vargo Bot. I don't know how I missed it as I'm sure looked here before: Vargo Bot Review.

Doh - missing sprockets found...

"Lucky I looked closely, the cassette is wrong - 13-36t in 11-36t packaging, so back to Bike24 to sort out."

See - there is no 11 tooth sprocket.



Oh - there it is...



After a brief exchange of email with Bike24, it was suggested I remove the packaging and look underneath the cassette - et voilà, the 11t sprocket and lockring. Who'da thunk it?

Bashguard bonus...

The SRAM GX 1000 36/22 GPX chainset I ordered from TweeksCycles.com arrived this morning, and I was very pleased to discover it is fitted with a bash guard. Bonus! Many thanks to Tweeks, who offered a very competitive price when Bike24 could not source stocks.