Eyebrows' 2017 project thread

For a bento box, no?

Something like this. Yes.

Looks like a great bike for ultra distance riding on dodgy roads!

Already done some damage.

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Downshifted the chain over the chainstay? Curiously etap doesn't use those chain stops that the all their cable actuated groupsets do. Might be worth putting one on anyway?

Or just set it up properly.

Owch :( Those framesets are $$$ too... at least it's just surface damage though, that would touch up relatively easily. The bike looks awesome though, I think it's a smart move to have fewer bikes that can cover more bases and then just have a few different sets of wheels for each one. I think it's fair to say wheels and tyres affect the ride of any bike more than any other single aspect.

I imagine this can basically do the job of your race/best bike, cross/gravel bike, tourer/audax and even probably 80-90% of what a hardtail mountain bike would do.

Also, is that a campag chainset? Is that just down to you already owning it?

even probably 80-90% of what a hardtail mountain bike would do.

Hmm...no.

Srampagnolo!?!

It was a pretty random event. Then got caught behind the crank.
Anyways. Shit happens^- its an area where there's a fucktonne of carbon probably. Bikes are for riding. It was fucking sensational out today.
Other news, though it claims to take a 36T inner, it only barely does so, sadly a 34T will have to arrive.
@hoops @ThePeginator. Yes. Because, it was one of the simpler solutions. (BB386 evo nightmares).

• ^I literally break everything. Ask @6pt. And I mean everything I own- it just happens.
  

? shortest lived project ever? 3T looks like it may be going back to Wiggle. I cannot fathom why they built certain things the way they did and having had one of those fail me spectularly today has made me pretty down about the whole bike.
That and I can't get the fucking seatpost to stay in the correct position.

What happened? You ok?

Yeah, all fine here.
It was trying to make it perfect, when I realised that there are some major flaws.
Having a think now- as when it was built up- it was fan-fucking-tastic to ride.

What broke?

More what doesn't work...
So it claims inner ring 36T- that isn't true.
The seat post clamp doesn't work.
And it may be hydro only*. So I'm thinking through options.

• the more I think about it.
  

Ok. I'm just going to completely change the build- I'm sure I can make it work.
Panic over.

Or maybe not. Idk right now. Seriously miffed.

Sleep on it, H. Always best to come at a problem fresh in the morning.

The seat post clamp doesn't work.

Don't they like...make seatposts?

Does a 36 strike the stays? Weren't there a number of modern campag chainsets that had proprietary bolts and quite chunky rings?

I don't think it'd make a comfy bed.

they make the seatposts with the stupidest clamp system ever #Ionic

Have you tried normal compact cranks? Will you really notice a difference between a 34 and 36? Seems a shame to send back a bike like this because of a few teething issues. I'm sure the seatpost can be fixed with grease and carbon paste in all the right places

Don't you need kids to do dad jokes?

Yes. Decision made early this morning whilst waiting for a plumber to restart our water supply (another story).

Bike is booked in to an actual workshop now.

. Etap will migrate across to its intended place on the Talbot, awaiting a time when @coldharbour has time to fit some mounts for me.
Exploro will go to 1x with 50 up front and 11-36 back, which should give me just about enough gears for most things (similar ratio to 39/28- which has covered ne for everywhere previously) and if not I'll swap the rear derailleur for the one on the GreyHouse (which needs a higher lowest gear than it's current 10-42).
Seatpost will be lathered in carbon anti-slip paste.
Helicopter tape over anywhere that has been minorly damaged by 36T/ chain-suck.
And we're back on track.... hopefully.

Looks like there is a lot of seatpost sticking out, you sure it's in the frame far enough?

1x sounds like what it was made for. I've never heard of a bike that had a max inner chainring limit!

There's a 'porthole'/dirt ingress system to look through. If you can see seat post, you're at safe insertion, so it's easy to be sure. Henry's looked right when I last saw it.