Starling Murmur – Update

Goodridge braided lines made for Hope came in from the UK. Patience is testing me so I thought I’d install the Chris King crown race onto the Lyrik. I thought I’d try a pipe cutter instead of sawing the steerer this time, not as clean IMHO, but definitely faster. Not often I get to hammer a star nut in these days. I dug through the parts bin and found a 35mm clamp stem with the same stack height as the Starling stem I’ve ordered (will take a while as I’m getting Starling to paint it the same colour as the frame). I’ve fitted it up for now with a 35mm Renthal bar but I will be running 31.8 Renthal bar in the final build. Brakes are on, turns out the rear caliper won’t work with the Hope 180mm IS mount adapter I bought so I’ll have to go for a 203mm rotor in the rear (super annoying as I just ordered a silver adapter that won’t work with these calipers). Still waiting on a wheelset from The Brig (been a few weeks and they’re not responding to my email with any updates) and coil shock +…