This thing finally resembles a bike without the aid of alcohol or other visual impairment The mind still needs to pencil in the crankset and wheels, however.
I used this video to help install the brakes and my install went as quick and easy as in the video. I don't have a bench vice though, so I used a pair of vice grips, which worked well. I also don't have either brake adapter to properly attach the calipers, so they're zip tied to the IS brake mount for the time being.
While Soma provides C-Clips with the Wolverine frame set, they only include five clips for the seven braze-ons. Luckily I had bought a package of four stick-on C-Clip mounts, but will only use two for the headlight dynamo wire. Here's a pic of the installed brake levers. The gap between the back brake lever and the grip will hold the Rohloff shifter, which has a small section of grip as part of its grip-shift mechanism, that butts up against the Ergon grip.
The saddle, computer and no-frills bottle cages also got installed. The saddle didn't come with any instructions and none where needed. The O-Synce computer comes ready to mount with a two-legged bracket that attaches directly to the handlebar with one leg on each side of the stem. I used the optional stem mount attachment, requiring the back plate be replaced with a stem mount back plate. This computer has no buttons on the main unit. Instead, a wired remote attaches to the handlebar (I have it adjacent to the left grip) where it can be manipulated with your thumb while riding. It has three buttons, two to scroll through display options/settings and one to select. Very easy and convenient. I plan to hide the wire under some bar tape, which will also cover the bold Syntace branding, grrr. (Notice the Syntace lettering is bigger and of higher contrast than the Wolverine lettering). Finally, the Garmin sensors (in box) have been wedged between the cages because I paired them with the computer and when they aren't close by, the computer searches for them.
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