"Holy Kick Ass Seatpost Batman" - Robin

Isn't this seatpost sexy?   I am totally in love with Loaded Precision Components xlite seatpost.

The craftmanship is just beautiful and it looks like a million bucks and all for 25% off the website price. I found another great online resource for parts Huck n Roll    The seatpost was in the mail hours after purchasing it and a quick and painless transaction. Highly recommend them.
The anodized blue is just dreamy and the post has a milled appearance which gives it a "ribbed for her pleasure feel" that grips and locks into the seatpost....and man it almost felt like I was writing for a porno there for a second.  Well...back to I LOVE this thing!  Makes me want everything anodized blue.
Huge fan of Loaded Precision Components.

Surly Pugsley Fork

One of the only downsides of ordering the 9:ZERO:7 frame from Alaska was that it did not come with a front fork like the Pugsley Frameset. What that did, besides setting me back an extra $85 was give me the chance to determine my front wheel set-up. Most snow bikes have the ability to be built with two 135mm rear hubs, so you have the ability to have a 10 speed cassette and a fixed or single speed. It is a great option but it adds costs and around a pound in weight. The way around this is the 100mm non-offset Surly Pusgely front fork. I just received mine from Tree Fort Bikes   It is so bomb proof its ridiculous and comes with several braze-ons for brakes or racks.  Jet black fork looks super tough on the frame with the Chris King Patriot headset.
Tree Fort Bikes was super awesome to deal with, one of the cheapest on the market, with lightening fast turn around time and amazing packaging.  They are getting an "A" in the overall experience column

Chris King Headset

My first Chris King headset. Ahh. Isn't it pretty. I have always wanted a Chris King colored anodized headset and this bike was the perfect spot for one. I already have some components from my old Giant mountain bike that I wanted to use on the snow bike and with the red cockpit set-up of red anodized Kooka brake levels and red carbon fiber handlebar and lower section of a blue Caramba double barrel crank the only Chris King headset to get was  .... the "Patriot"
also as a bonus the flag of the Netherlands. Word to the Dutch!

I purchased the headset from the closet bike shop I liked or wanted to give my money to. Bicycle Heaven is a cool shop on a tough corner of 3 bicycle shops. There are three bike shops on the corner of Route 38 and Route 25...three. There is the "crazy guy shop" who sells strange brands, lives part of the year in, Brazil and is total creepy high pressure sales. An ok large brand store that does sell Electra's and I worked at briefly after college as a mechanic. And this newer shop called Bicycle Heaven that is next to creepy guy. Super nice people and got the headset for me at the same price as the cheapest internet shop and they installed it for free.
Great start.

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