The Focus Mares gravel bike I bought from a gentleman in California was delivered today.\u00a0 I’ve unpacked the box and I saw no obvious damage.\u00a0 I’ll go over it carefully tomorrow while I strip it down to the frame.<\/p>\n
This bike is the one I’ll ride in the Unbound Gravel 100 mile ride in June of this year, presuming that I get a starting place.\u00a0 I’ve already registered for the ride, and the drawing for start places is at the end of January.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll get a place, maybe not – but I didn’t want to wait until I had a place to find a bike and get it ready – we’ve all seen that bikes and components aren’t in stock as they were previously.<\/p>\n
There are some scratches in the clearcoat and I want to polish them out or touch them up, then clean and wax the frame.\u00a0 Once that’s finished, I’ll start reassembling it from the ground up.\u00a0 No cables and housings on this one, just DI2 wires and hydraulic hoses for the disk brakes.\u00a0 I have some familiarity with DI2 after the Parlee setup, but I have zero experience with hydraulic disk brakes.\u00a0 A learning opportunity presents itself.\u00a0 Also, the wheels and tires on this bike are tubeless, so another learning opportunity awaits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Focus Mares gravel bike I bought from a gentleman in California was delivered today.\u00a0 I’ve unpacked the box and I saw no obvious damage.\u00a0 I’ll go over it carefully tomorrow while I strip it down to the frame. This bike is the one I’ll ride in the Unbound Gravel 100 mile ride in June … <\/p>\n