One frame, one fork, two wheels and a box of bits.  The front wheel already has the brake disc fitted, while the rear is sprocketed-up.

The same thing, but in a slightly different part of the kitchen.

The wheels.  Mavic Open Pro 2 rims, Panaracer Pasela Tourguard 25-622 tyres, Schwable inner tubes, Velox rim tape.  Front hub: Schmidt dynamo, disc brake version, here fitted with 203 mm Hope disc.  Rear hub: Royce, 135 mm OLN, with EAI 18T steel sprocket.

I was bored, so took a picture of the chainset.  Stronglight track, 165 mm cranks, 44T sprocket.  See how shiny my kitchen table was before I started all this nonse...

Depravo at last able to stand on his own two feet wheels.  The stem has not yet been fully tightened down, coz I'm waiting for more parts...

USE Sumo carbon seat post and Brooks B17 saddle in place.

Doing it on the kitchen table.  Phil Wood bottom bracket and chainset installed.  On the fridge door, under the mad cow fridge magnet,  is my Ham Licence, from Thee Temple Ov Thee Lemur.

SRAM PC48 chain installed, as are TA bottle cage and Topeak Road Morph pump.  The picture above the cupboard is called "Practice Over" by Alan Fearnley, and depicts the pits at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix, trivia fans.  And it's signed by the artist and Stirling Moss, so let's have a bit more respect from you oiks in future, eh?

Having now obtained some headset spacers and a Delta stem raiser thingy (I am tall, and disinclined to bend, y'see), the headset can be fully tightened and the bars - Profile Airwing - installed.  The stem is a short and stumpy adjustable Ritchey, which leads to the whole thing looking rather odd, but does put the bars where I want them.  The postcard on the far left depicts Paul McIver, who sing, and plays guitar and bass in the very wonderful Betes Noires, whom I now find to have renamed themselves "Cutaways".

The front brake - Hope Mono M4 - is now attached.  Yes, the brake line is waving in the breeze, and will be ruthlessly Disciplined as soon as I'm happy with the positioning of everything.  And pedals, which are Look PP247.  The nice man at Deeside said he couldn't get any black, only red, so these came off the Speedmachine, which now has some more appropriately coloured pedals instead.  The map visible behind the handlebars is of the Ardeche Gorge.

We have a rack - Tor-Tec Ultralight - and a some mudguards.  SKS.  Next to Paul's postcard are couple of tickets from White Stripes gigs at Ally Pally, and below them a French banknote I found in a cupboard.

Extreme close-up!!  This bracket lowers the rear mudguard, that it might be in closer proximity to the tyre, and is made from a Cateye belt clip.

Extreme close-up 2!!  Spacer to put this bit of the rear mudguard closer to rear tyre.  Fabricated from odd bits found in the shed, plus a non-hex end of a chainring bolt.

Now with rear light...  That's Cosimo the Stealth Baron lurking behind the open door.

More lights - Solidlights 1203D and Cateye LD500 on the front; 2 x Cateye LD600 and one LD500 at the back.  Cateye Astrale computer also fitted.

From behind...  The furry dice on the wall date from when I was post-modern, ironic and a Ford Capri owner.

Depravo joins the rest of the fleet.  L-R: Trice XXL, Trek 4300, HP Velotechnik Speedmachine, Depravo, Revell Romany aka The Old Fixer.  Cosimo the Stealth Baron is not pictured as, with him being a member of the nobility, he is far too posh to mix it with these riff-raff.

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