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@Brommers
Now that Spring has sprung, and the winter bike has been put away (for now), I've made a few changes to the Chair so it'll be ready for 2014. This is what it looked like when it got put away for the winter:
I picked up a pair of Zipp 808s cheap(ish - all things are relative) and so I thought I'd try the rear one on the Chair. The front one doesn't have a tyre glued onto it, so that wasn't an option. The rear has a SRAM XG-1090 12-25 cassette fitted - a thing of great beauty, and ridiculously light at only 149g.
The other major change was a change of bottom bracket and crankset - Rotor 3D+ cranks with a Power2Max power meter spider added.
The Power2Max power meter seems pretty good so far - it paired easily with the head unit, the numbers are credible and consistent. I might try and run the Chair with a Powertap rear hub to see how the numbers compare from the two systems.
The Chair did manage to disgrace itself on the club run on Sunday, as the clinch nut which provides the preload for the bearings in the rear hub came loose (user error - the rear wheel came with a Campag freehub and I changed it for a Shimano one, and must have forgotten to do it up properly) and it had to be tightened up mid-ride. But the rear wheel does make a lovely wub-wub-wub noise, so all is forgiven. I suspect it'll mostly be used on my time trial bike though.