What's Left On The To-Do List?

One day after the wheel #2 completed its long journey to my house, the crankset made it onto a delivery truck this morning and wheel #1 positioned itself to get delivered tomorrow.  With those final components (except for a set of dynamo wires), the bike can be all but completed.  The to-do list:

1.  Mount the rim strip, tube, tire and brake rotor onto the front wheel ... pretty much the same drill as yesterday's rear wheel.

2.  Install the rear brake adapter, then the caliper onto it it.

3.  Attach both wheels to the bike.  Now, where did I put those skewers?

4.  Finalize the brake installations by adjusting the calipers to center the rotors between the pads

5.  Install the shifter and cables

6.  Install the crankset, pedals and chain.  At this point the bike would be ride ready.

7.  Attach the speed and cadence sensors.  The speed sensor wraps around the front hub and the cadence sensor attaches to a crank arm.  Both lack magnets and sense the rotation itself.

8.  Wrap handlebar with bar tape to secure (and hide) wires for the light and computer remote buttons.  Note to self:  Buy bar tape ... or bat tape ... or hockey stick tape ... something.

9.  Run the wire (when it arrives) from the front hub to the headlight.  The tail light wire already runs along the brake hose from the head tube to the brake caliper, then follows a vertical tube on the rack to the light.  I completed it the other day using the front wire supplied with the headlight and multiple zip ties.  Those tiny blade connectors are a bugger, by the way, at least with aging eyes and fat fingers.

10.  Burn in the brakes.   I need to google this more.  A ubiquitous consensus agrees disc brakes should be burned in, but methods vary wildly.   I won't be doing the suggested method calling for ten passes at 25 mph for each brake ... at least not without an oxygen tank, defibrillator and iced six pack close by.

11.  Recheck torque on every fastener, test ride and adjust ergonomics.

12.  Decide on the fenders and kickstand at some point.

Barring some show-stopping issue, that's an evening of work, so I could be done tomorrow night.  Hmmm, I might have to take Friday off from work . . .