One Week to go.

New tires arranged and will be fitted tomorrow, have chosen to go with the pirelli diablo as the Michelin pilot's were $145 more expensive, I am not being cheep the reasoning being that the South Island roads are a lot courser and chew through the tires a lot quicker, and the turn around on buying new tires will be fairly quick. And I really don't have a handle on the whole tire compound thing yet. four types of rubber hard to cruise in the middle soft at the outer wall to go round corners....and so on.
Well I got the rims off and took them to Cycletreads for the new tires, and we both bought new helmets and a set of rear brake pads, the staff were helpful as always and by far the best shop to deal with. 1100 bucks later we are almost there. The tires were so bad I could not even ride it to the shop.
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all back together and seems to be working fine , filled the self oilier system for the chain. all system are go. Also bought summer gloves !