2016 Charge Plug 1 w/ lots of upgrades

I'm selling this Charge Plug 1 Medium/54cm that had a lots of upgrade done to it;

• H+Son with BLB cartridge bearing hubs wheelset.
  
• 39t Alfine chainset with hollowtech bottom bracket, lightest and stiffest chainset for the money.
  
• 16t Dura Ace 3/32 sprocket, giving a nice round 67GI
  
• Schwable Kojak folding, lightest tyres you can get in that sizes, 340g for 35mm.
  
• 3/32 SRAM chain, I find those drivetrain nice and reliable, and surprisingly quiet.
  
• SRAM S500 brakes levers
  
• Koolstop Salmon pads recently fitted on Tektro brakes, both combination give a very powerful modulation.
  
• Fork mounted cable hanger.
  
  

The bike is a lots lighter than the original one you can buy off the pegs, especially with the new wheelset, chainset, and the smaller 3/32 drivetrain, it would make an excellent first cyclocross bike, especially with the 39t chainring, fit an 18t freewheel, CX tyres and you got yourself a SSCX.

£385 ONO collection near Oval tube station.

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Size?

Whoop! medium/54cm

that looks like a lot of joy, glws!

on point

bumpy mcbumpface price drop

Bump, need to sell it

price drop.

I'll give that a think over the weekend. Hmmmmmm.

Bump

Bump drop.

bumpy bumpy.

I'm after a 650b single speed wheel set rim brake surface if you have one...?

Get out of here.

If you do consider splitting I might be interested in the wheels

Lol wheely want one ;)

Is there clearance at the back for mudguards, and can it take panniers...?

Yes to both, can be ridden with mudguard and 42mm tyres too.

It was originally going to be my winter fixed but realised that a track bike would be better as I can use it on the velodrome and the road.

pm incoming

Yo @edscoble, sorry for the dredge - did those salmon brake pads make a good difference?

I have one of these, also in glorious pink, that I love but the brakes cause me headaches. I can't get rid of the squeal on the front, even with a fork mounted cable guide.

The rear is so tricky to setup for powerful braking.

If the pads helped. I'll get a set. Which ones are they for the Tektro cantis?

Thanks for your help!

The salmon isn't quieter, they're louder actually! I liked salmon due to better braking power at the expensed of pads wearing out sooner than later.

If the rims isn't bedded in (as in the paint gone), then it gonna squeal for a good while before it start to quieten.

Maybe fit those Swissstop BXP and toe in the pads (front part of pads hit the rims before the back, use a small cable tie on the back of the pads, squeeze levers and bob your uncle), mine did squeal even when the rims is worn in.

Alternately, you can always get mini v instead, the Shimano Sora grade one work a treat, make sure you order compressionless housing to give it a much sharper feedback (I had normal v on mine, and it actually felt fine with road levers once I fit compressionless housing on if you don't mind a little bit of a throw).

I don't know if it's the Tektro brakes the issues, I have the Shimano CX70 on my other bike which is impressively quiet, and judder free (despite stem mounted cable hanger).