{"id":90,"date":"2010-08-09T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T12:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=88"},"modified":"2012-04-18T11:33:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T11:33:18","slug":"ewr-project-phase-thirteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"EWR Project &#8211; Phase Thirteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">After several months &#8216;off&#8217; building bikes I finally completed one of the last tasks on this project, switching the &#8216;test&#8217; stem for the proper Syncros CattleHead and cutting the steerer down on the new AccuTrax forks. In reality it didn&#8217;t take too long, most time was spent employing the &#8216;2p trick&#8217; to separate the Syncros stem from the Race Face Air Alloy bars that had been sitting on my CD shelf at home for the last six months <\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.blush.gif?w=620\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Measured twice just to make sure, knocked the old Star Nut through and out the bottom then got the Saw Guide out and sliced off just over an inch from the steerer, quick rub down with emery paper and on with the spacers and stem&#8230;.dialled in perfectly at my magic 590mm dropout to bottom of bars measurement I have on all my bikes <\/span><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/retromtb.goatsurfer.com\/_images\/emoticons\/em.icon.bigsmile.gif?w=620\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">. A few more minutes faffing with preload and here we are&#8230;.a nice pair of Period Correct Answer Alumilite DH bars from 1994 fitted to the NOS Syncros CattleHead stem.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goatsurfer.com\/images\/EWR_Build_84.JPG?w=620\" alt=\"\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goatsurfer.com\/images\/EWR_Build_85.JPG?w=620\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goatsurfer.com\/images\/EWR_Build_86.JPG?w=620\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goatsurfer.com\/images\/EWR_Build_87.JPG?w=620\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several months &#8216;off&#8217; building bikes I finally completed one of the last tasks on this project, switching the &#8216;test&#8217; stem for the proper Syncros CattleHead and cutting the steerer down on the new AccuTrax forks. In reality it didn&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=90\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,13],"tags":[68,69,70,34,71,67],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ewr-project","category-main-page","category-vintage-mtb","tag-accutrax","tag-alumilite","tag-cattlehead","tag-ewr","tag-race-face","tag-syncros"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hERH-1s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}