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FredyCro
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I've been racing this most weekends and making little changes as I go. I borrowed and bought a vast selection of stems (130mm-150mm with 6 to 17) and the 140mm -17 fits best, feels great having so much weight over the front wheel and I can ride 1hr + crits in the drops comfortably. Also got some 6800 brakes to go on here as I switched the 6500's to my work bike.
(apologies for the pic quality)
Hit a snag today though, the front mech broke, not sure whether to search for a 9-speed Shimano front mech (holla if you've got one one) or seeing as the groupset is really old take this as a cue to move to 11s, probably 105
In the meantime I've taken the mech off leaving it 1 x 9. I'm supposed to be racing a crit tomorrow, big ring only is no problem but will the chain jump ship? Anything I can do to prevent it?