Fairing pretty well thanks...
So, the Jett Creek is getting dressed up a bit more. Got the new Windwrap Fairing installed today and it looks like this:

No it's not solid black! It has a removable soft cover that is meant to keep it from getting scratched and/or pawed by curious fingers when you're stopped. The lucite is fabulously clear but it is also very scratchable so the cover seemed like a good idea.

When you pull the cover off it looks like this:

There are only four support points -- two at the ends of a moustache shaped spreader bar that is attached to the handle-bar column, and two at the bottom that attach to little angles that have been retro-fit onto the caliper brake fittings.

The idea of working off the brake caliper mounts works fine, "but", for my money it leaves the fairing a trifle pinched at the bottom. It looks fine but it does mean that the lower side edges come closer to the pedals as they rotate than I'd really like. When you're turning you simply cannot keep pedaling or you will stub your toes into the fairing edging... and neither the fairing nor that force-on edging are up to any significant abrasion.

The last new addition was the Axiom panniers. They are empty in this photo but must be 10-12 inches wide when they are fully packed... and there are all sorts of loops and elastic lacing so you can add stuff onto stuff if you want. I suspect that if you chose your camping gear carefully... especially the tent, you could pack everything you could possibly want for a three or four day cycle trip into this set. Of course me (210 lbs.), the bike (30-35 lbs.?), and your gear (40-50lbs.?) would be pushing 300 lbs. which would definitely work better downhill than uphill!

The next (and for now last) do-dah I'm considering is a Garmin GPS unit. Toying with either a Garmin 60CSX which is a bit more map oriented, and a Garmin Edge 305 which comes more from the athletic performance tracking world (heart-rate, cadence, etc.)

Then I may actually have to break down a ride the damned thing!

Which has led me to the Alberta Randonneur site and all of that exciting ride stuff to look forward to in 2007.