Any question answered...

What number though?

Bent hanger?

Missed the last bit about not having a bent hanger.

That was my first thought (which would have been a fucker, as it's a brand new carbon frame).

But it was spot-on before and now I've refitted the Shimano shifter, it's spot-on again...

Thanks everyone for cork/cap wine bottle knowledge - girlfriend's mother wanted to know why her favourite wine had gone from looking classy to looking not classy

I know good wines can be either corked or capped, but doesn't that affect the way they change while in the bottle?

doesn't that affect the way they change while in the bottle?

Yes, that's why caps are taking over from cork. Caps are consistent, corks are OK most of the time but occasionally wreck your wine. Not a disaster with £2.99 plonk, but pretty annoying with anything nice.

I've put a compact chainset on my look 595 and unfortunately the front derailleur won't go low enough to achieve a 1-3mm gap. It's more like 5-7mm. Any tricks to getting it lower that doesn't involve filing the inside of the braze on mount slot?

Any tricks to getting it lower that doesn't involve filing the inside of the braze on mount slot?

Buy a touring bike

Dunno, drill & tap a new hole in the derailleur instead?

Looking to build up a 1x system on a roadbike.

Going to get an apex 1 derailleur and shifter. Also going with the 1030 11-42t cassette.

Theoretically with a standard chain what is the largest chainring I could run?

I have a carbon chainset that's 130bcd and their cx1 chainrings smallest tooth count is 52 in that bcd.

Will I get away with it?

I'd think it would depend on the length of the chain and the length of the bike's chainstays.

standard chain

Which standard? Some are 112 links and others are 116. 112 will be tight on 52/42 unless your stays are under 390mm. You can always make a longer chain from two short ones, using two quicklinks.

Most places are supplying 116 links as "standard" in my experience.

Will there not be an issue by joining two chains of it being too long in the 52/11 gear or will the mech be able to take up the slack?

So no vintners want their wine to change while in the bottle?
Or is it that the way it changes in a capped bottle can more easily be predicted?

The slack would be the same no matter the chainring no?

[ignore me, missed the point]

So no vintners want their wine to change while in the bottle?

They want the changes to come from what's in the bottle when it's closed, not what leaks in through a bad cork

Actually you want a small amount of oxygen to pass through to avoid reductive flavours / mercaptans. Modern screw caps liners also now allow a small amount of oxygen intake to avoid this.

Thanks everyone

Like I pointed to in the unquoted part.

htfuing was cool 5 years ago but now I enjoy the art of the spin.

I'm determined to get this to work. Looking at it again and it seems the gap is more like 6mm.

I think I can file the slot and get 2mm, possibly 3mm. Another option would be these angled shims people use for oval chainrings, like so:

Which I think would rotate the derailleur downwards enough to get the desired gap.

Part of me thinks this will work, the other that I should just go semi compact 52 36 and forget it.

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htfuing was cool 5 years ago but now I enjoy the art of the spin.

Trade in for a 585? All the same Look loveliness but with a clamp on FD which lets me run 48/34 on mine 😀

I'm changing the cockpit on my French track bike because my Philippe stem is supposed to be one of the infamous death stems (I've been using the bike with it for years without problem and without knowing about this...)
French stems being 22mm diameter and not 22.2mm a bit of sanding is needed, I've done it before it's not that hard to do... It was always with alloy stems though...
Assuming I manage to do the same with a steel stem (i.e. an Elypse for instance, i appreciate this might be tricky...), the percentage of material removed in terms of thickness would be more than for an alloy stem... Would that dangerously compromise the structural integrity of the stem?
Thanks!

[Edit] Sheldon Brown only advise against doing this because removal of the chrome plating would make it rust, but if I seal it with kurust and considering it's a track bike, that's probably ok... I think I'll give it a go...

Anyone got service diagram and know what tools I need to clean/relube a Di2 Ultegra RD?

Think the only tricky bit is removing a circlip and getting the spring back in properly after it pings across the room somewhere...

Anybody know of a grease gun that'll thread onto a tube of Phil Wood grease?