The Look family - Look KG196, KG381 & 695 Aerolight

I'm sorry, not to denigrate the ambitions of the OP and the need to share a very exciting experience but is this more of a shopping cart than an actual current project?

Yeah seems that way so far unfortunately, though for my track bike last time I got told off for already getting all the stuff and building the bike already then posting as a CP.

Can never win.

Anyways, final parts have been dropped off and looking forwards to the new gal hopefully be able to ride her on Saturday evening

#NoMoreCracks

Ho this will be great. The man who owns Yellow Jersey insurers runs the Friends of HHV committee I can get you in touch with him if you want to talk to him about coverage. PM me if you want his details

Thanks, I will be weighing my options and it will be either Yellow jersey or cycle plans, I will just have to read through their clauses and see which insurance is best for me at my current fragile age...

On other news, I would have been expecting to be collecting the bike today, but I got a phone call from condor saying the canyon framset is too complicated and that they will need more time to rebuild the bike, so no maiden voyage for the new gal this weekend which I guess is a blessing in disguise with this grey and uncertain weather lurking around London Town.

attempting a 150mile sportive with zero practice rides? what could go wrong?

you can borrow my torque wrench for when they inevitably set it up for a gorilla.

Funny stuff old man. The setup is pretty much the same with my current bike, I've told them to put the seatpost up by half a cm to see if this would be a better riding position, but the rest ie, stem length and handlebar position is the same in what I have got.

The only reason why I wanted to test the bike out this weekend is purely for the feel of riding on deep carbon rims, but that will hopefully for next weekend.

Worst case is that I use the current bike I have for the C2C.

The cross winds were manageable today, but then again I'm a fat bastard

@HoKe the anticipation is killing me!

@youramericanlover All in good time my dear boy

(or in my case this Saturday!)

The repair on the old one looked pretty good yesterday in LMNH.

Cheers @Howard good to see you and @Doctor_Cake are doing so well

In other news, the canyon was finally built yesterday and I took her out for a quick spin (just inside London so I couldn't get a proper feel of how the bike handles)

But on first impressions is that it is much lighter than my previous bike and definitely feels more stable with the deeper rim. (Loving the sounds the deep rims makes and the Chris kangs hubs)

I will slap on some bottle cage and saddle bag tomorrow and give it a quick spin down around kent to sort out any tinkering issues before taking her next week for the coast to coast in Yorkshire.

A quick picture with the shitty iPhone (sorry about the HDR light was poor so I needed something to highlight the bike)

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Just the tip.

Inspired by @6pt

I will hopefully take a better picture(s) during the week to highlight the new build and certain key aspect I love on the bike.

Very nice and ninja!

....."saddlebag".....

shakes head disapprovingly

Now that is a Stealth Bling Road bike right there. New category perhaps?

Until it crack...

I know! =(

#thosegrams

Still no proper photos (uni life is crap atm)

Saw this article in road.cc which pissed me off at tad! Arugh!! Hate technological advance at times and how I am such a sucker for it!!

http://road.cc/content/news/154834-canyon-unveils-new-ultimate-cf-slx-aero-features

But on my maiden voyage yesterday with the LFGSS douchebags, the bike handles really well, and I am so happy I went with the wider rim profile (25 external/18 internal) makes the bike so much more stable without compromising the handling when descending around the kent hills. Also there is the major big plus side how comfortable it has become compared to my Mavic elite s on the other bike.

Climbing wasn't too much of an issue and the heavier wheels and larger gear ratio (52/36) didn't feel like a burden, only burden was the rider and his lack of fitness.

There are some unquie elements that I spotted on the bike with Condor's built technique compared to Canyon factory built bike which I found quite interesting. (Will eventually take some pictures of what I mean) but I think the key difference is that condor might have put the internal batter in the seat tube whilst canyon default area is actually the down tube.

The only slightly disappointment and embarrassing thing was that I totally forgot that I needed the BB bearings and not only just the press-fit cups, which condor kindly order some rotors one for me and placed on. Live and learn I guess.

I swung by cadence and actually took this opportunity to weight the bike (the spread sheet didn't take into considersation of the BB and the Elite bottle cages) and this was probably the biggest disappointment (and the reason why people have digital scale to measure parts to see if they were actually the weight they claim) was that it weight 6.85, which is legal I know but I was actually aiming for 6.5. Room for improvement at the end of the day.

Fatty

😘

this was probably the biggest disappointment (and the reason why people have digital scale to measure parts to see if they were actually the weight they claim) was that it weight 6.85, which is legal I know but I was actually aiming for 6.5

MODERN LIFE PROBLEMS

Yes indeed.

Though I like to think in an artist and architect perspective of 'striving for perfection'

Heh, perfection is the enemy bro