This weekend’s trade show went well and will help Cycleworks bring some new parts to the market soon! Sorry for those with “stale” e-mails: I’ll try to get on those today. We’re winding up for the Monster Challenge at this weekend’s Cycle World show. We were asked to bring the Project S2R up. It isn’t “bling’d out”, but they wanted something other than the typical carbon bikes…

Yesterday (Monday) was a fun and intense track day. Today was all about getting caught up with the business: returning phone calls; answering e-mails; and selling parts. Write up about track day coming!

We took Saturday off. Today is Sunday, time to finish track day prep on the S2R. Adjust valves, retension the belts, change the oil, and mount up the new rear wheel. If there's time, I'll be installing an Afam SBK quick change carrier (now in BLACK!!!) and a 42T rear sprocket. And also the obligatory DiD VM520 gold chain. To quote my favorite shop owner, Rick Fairless: “GET BACK TO WORK!”

Tonight, I finished the Project S2R front brake + wheel upgrade!

The first task was getting in the parts. I ordered up Brake Tech stainless steel AXIS rotors with their “Cobra” pattern outer perimeter. Next, I bought some used Brembo 2 pin Goldline calipers. I've got a set of Ferodo CP911* racing pads. Since I still have a Marvic rear wheel laying on the shelf from when I was going to race the MH900e, I decided to “bling” up the shop bike and go down the path of making it a catalog bike. So I ordered the matching front wheel. For the brake lines, I ran a single hose from the master cylinder to the right caliper then another line looped over the fender. The standard Monster fender was ditched for one from a 916. The 916 fender leaves more room for brake lines and also protects the fork tubes.