Electronic & Hydraulic Shifting (Di2, Ui2, customisations)

Sure, let me know if the hack doesn't work, then we can arrange a swap.

Yep. Plural. Tried with one, and it didn't work. 4 rare earth magnets stacked on top of each other did the trick though. It's like magic.

It's like magic.

Thanks, will see what goes once the shifters turn up.

I'm disappointed in the lack of hoovers being used in these descriptions...

I'm disappointed in the lack of hoovers being used in these descriptions...

This. I managed to pull out the guide thing on Scoot's frame's internal routing and after much frustration a hoover sorted it in 2 minutes.

Bloody hell thats quick, second ever install of di2 and external this time and managed to strip, clean and get all wires, cables shifters and battery installed in less than 2 hours. Put the rear derailleur from my bike on just to see if it works and it all does! Just need the deraillers to turn up tomorrow and get hold of a band on adapter and should be finished in less than an hour!

Di2 makes everything so easy..

Anyone had any experience running internal Di2 externally? Like Jesse's setup in TABR but just with the battery external, the rest of the wiring hidden as per normal.

No, but I might end up doing this as I'm not so confident drilling holes as others might be!

For the Cervelo? Maybe you could take some pics/notes while you do it?

My Kinesis has Di2 routing but I don't think they thought any idiot would put the battery outside the seattube. So, not sure of the best way to wire it up.

Actually, the Kinesis 4SD has a largish hole where the FD cable comes out of the seattube so perhaps I could mount the battery somewhere and then run the wire into the lower part of the seattube that way?

Will do, hoping to get to my bike by Saturday, someone else is putting pressure on me to have their bike ready to ride by the weekend...

Reading that again it seems you want to mount the battery externally rather than use the ability to mount it internally?

Yeah, it's currently all internal routed but I want to run the battery outside the frame rather than in the seat tube.

why!?

You giving me ideas. This ti bike has all the Di2 taped and where?

I think running Di2 externally is stupid. It might make it easier to service but you're making it more likely to fail in the first place. I just want to relocate the battery.

That is that sorted then.

Is this to allow easy changing when you forget to charge/Ride too far for one battery?

You planning on using one of the xtr di2 battery mounts then?

Nope. I'll only be taking one battery.

Something like that might work but I'm probably using a framebag that would get in the way.

You could have an external battery mounted underneath the saddle, like some of the pro teams have on their TT bikes. Not entirely sure how you'd get the cable out - presumably out of the top of the seat post.