Cannondale r1000 Race Bike

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Skant
I've made a bunch of updates to the bike but not to the thread for a while so here goes:
- Flo wheels F&R
- New Ultegra cassette with slightly different ratios (12-25 as opposed to 11-23 on the old one)
- Swapped out the 6500 cranks for Ultegra 6600 for the benefits of external BB and shorter crank length, bringing the fit exactly in line with my other bikes and allowing more pedal clearance through corners
- Arione saddle and Thomson seatpost
One of the bottle cage bolts has fused to it's nut/rivet which now just spins in the frame rather than unscrewing, anyone got any tips on how to remedy this? Is there a DIY solution or do I just do without a 2nd bottle mount?

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Chak in reply to @Skant

Removed them a few times by using pliers and gently pulling upwards whilst twisting, friction allows bolt to come loose from the rivet, saying that, I was lucky with them not tightened too much together. After that, I used a rivet gun to pop the nut back into place. Will never be 100%, but it worked to a degree.

Also, That looks fucking great. Digging the Flo's

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Skant in reply to @Chak

Thanks for the response, that sounds promising. The bolt wasn't done up tight either so hopefully this'll work for me

Also, cheers :)

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