Thanks dudes.

I'll fit one of the Ringle ones I have if it fits...the FD was adjusted to throw too much to the inside. Alas.

The bag is a Jandd, super rad old school company in San Diego: http://www.jandd.com/

Old Jandd bags are great!
The Phoenix is pretty nice too

(like that Olive-like drab color)

The colour is great, actually. Understated and very uncommon...

I like! Good colour, lovely clean lines - well specced, and good to see it's being ridden rather than polished

The PDW grips are cool too, they make some funky stuff!

More grist for the mill!

I made some changes to the set up.....and it is still rad

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Just made it back from this morning's Romero Canyon ride. Twas great! I didn't do the technical creek trail, but instead took the long long fireroad all the way up, then bombed down. Nice to get the Phoenix up to speed on a downhill off road. The bike performed great. The DKG was a marked improvement, and I was definitely appreciating all 80mm of loving up front. I have noticed a wee bit of the fabled seatpost slippage. Not much, and maybe I just need to clamp down a bit more (the runs-slightly-small Thomson probably adds to the issue)....or maybe I need to get off my ass on these rocky climbs.

The trail is really cool---great views nearly at every turn, very strenuous but not impossible to keep it going at a good clip, plenty of rocks, little jumps, and nasties to keep your attention and jar you silly on the way down, and to top it off a couple small stream crossings. The 70 degree weather didn't hurt. But man, I need to get back in shape.....before Keysville.

Here's a scenery pic, and then a few more of the bike after I had finished up, replete with Santa Barbara's excuse for winter mud.

Love the colour, nice clean lines and very very simple. liking that.

A couple pics from a Southern California vintage ride this morning courtesy Klasse.

A few build changes, notably the wheels and tires.

Yet another round of updates.... I wanna get this thing onto page three so it doesn't load so slowly. But oh well--I certainly can't resist photos.

Build update!
Took this bird on a 4,000ft of climbing, 26 mile jaunt in the hills above Cupertino, CA last weekend and it performed flawlessly. Though I think I may flip the stem again for the neg 5 degree rise. The Luv Handles are fantastic bars.

PICS!

Definitely!
Aside from how great they feel, your set, with that raw ti finish, look sweet with your frame/badge- comes together nicely.

Danke! They sort of pick up the purply metallic of the Mavic sunsets too.

T'is steel though---raw + clearcoat. The finish on the ti bars is a lot more uniform, w/o the iridescence.

Ah!

even better...raw steel + Clearcoat is

I should stick this here too:

That phoenix just looks so clean! Great thread and bike
/J

Went rigid!
I'm still loving this bike a lot.










And what I did with it in Tahoe a few weeks back:

Now with a Type II fork