Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

We don't have laptop with us when we go touring, just spare cables.

speak for yourself

no..

Was on the Grand Ballon (in France) with a friend, his rear derailleur failed thanks to a wire that got damaged.. Swapped some wires within in the system, and he continued as normal.

I had a rear wheel come of my bike (horrible Zipp QR malfunctioned, yes the model that was recalled) and landed on my rear derailleur. This would normally snap the cable on mechanical models, in my case just the rear derailleur stopped working (front was still fine). Then just unplugged the battery and plugged it back in and all was working again.

So no, Di2 malfunctions hardly ever mean nothing works and if one of the wires becomes damaged you can easily swap it with one of the other wires, without having to do any adjusting or tensioning afterwards.. And you can also bring a spare wire, or even a junction box or battery. Since they are tiny..

If all of the above fails, you can always just push di2 derailleurs into the gears you like. They'll stay there quite happy, no weird cable rigging needed.

Please don't get testy with me over a difference of opinion.

+1

some people did the transcontinental with di2. Although I have to admit, this was with pedals:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BIx9eOXhCwW/?taken-by=thetranscontinental

I'd consider the great Mike Hall a pretty serious bikepacker, definitely top 5 bikepackers for what the talbot is designed for the TCR, Used Di2...

The rack is from Old Man Mountain -

http://www.oldmanmountain.com/product/ANG-CH.html

Feeling so functional this week. Fast and functional.

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Noice

Got to get an in-line post and shorter stem but in general loving the 650b tubeless life. Compass Babyshoe Pass, fast and fat

the interwebz delivers.....commuter porn

The lunacy of people using di2! Do they know nothing.

If you rotated bars down and levers up would you be able to shorten the reach? Position in the drops looks a bit wacky. Otherwise great bike!

Yup on both bike, bit odd but some people like it I guess

bit boring though

Genius

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Must go like a freight train!

2nd and 3rd place riders are (presumably) kids.

Even so, it will obviously carry momentum like nothing else.

True.

And the couplers make it possible to make it into a regular or three-person tandem!

That's cool. I wonder where you get cables long enough.. or did they connect some normal ones together.

Wow, hadn't spotted that. Chasing weird creaking noises is going to be virtually impossible!

Oh my I like
What's the frame?

Let's talk about flex, baby.

On a related note, a pal made this last year:

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