After it’s second and much harsher winter of commuting, my Arc was looking like a brown mess and was in desperate need of some love! Just doubled my commute to about 110 miles a week and the bike was starting to sound like it was about to shake itself to pieces.

So, out came the cleaning products and so the weekend began with coffee and pasties in hand!. Took the whole thing apart, cleaned, polished, re-greased and added some new shiney bits to replace the broken and worn out guff that plagued it before. These include:

New Brake pads + Cables
New GXP BB
New Ultegra 6800 shifters (to replace Rivals with shattered internals) – These are the nuts in comparison
New 105 SS r/mech
New Tape and Hoods.
New Schwalbe Sammy Slick 700x35C folding tyres

After much swearing and elbow-grease, the beast is re-born. Sorry about the crap quality image!

ARCX by re5i5ted, on Flickr

Stem is upside down.

Looks nice though.

That’ll be because my back has all the flexibility of a brick! 😀

That is one nice bike! Far too nice for a commuter…
I have an ASR-SL in the same colour, would like to own an ACRX now as well 🙂

with you sputnik, i’ve got an asr and would really like an arcx as well.

Nice looking bike.

Thanks for the comments all, as I said, it’s often brown as opposed to shiney. It really deserves more love than I give it.

I’ve had Yetis for a few years – starting with a first gen 575, since then had a DJ and a 4X, although I’m now just down to the one, but when I wanted a CX bike I just couldn’t have bought anything else! (not even a Stigmata!)