Charge Plug Titanium

😔😔 no cross compatibility between Shimano and hylex

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Its been done the other way around. @svendhöek might be able to shed some light:

Well there's no rush. You could get it up and running with the 10 speed and cable discs, then upgrade to 11 speed when you spot bits going for cheap.

Yeah, this is true. Mechanical is the obvious answer, I'm just pretending I can achieve hydraulics on a budget.

I'll probably try the mechanical and wonder what I was worried about.

Trp hyrd and staying mechanical .
When does the frame arrive is it a small and dibs when you have finished the build👌

I use spyres on my Equilibrium, they stop me on a sixpence, have great modulation, only ever played with hydros in the shop, yep they feel better, but to lose a 600 saving on a ti frameset, build up with what you have/within budget and upgrade as finances allow.

Yeah, could well be the case. I reckon shift everything you can over to it and stay strictly mechanical for now. I would save the extra you'd spend on hyrd and put that towards upgrading to 11speed hydro at a later date. Just my opinion :)

Done deal

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Now someone buy my ritchey, so I'm not skint.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/298163/#comment13396963

Frame is here.

Much excitement, however only has one set of cable guides, for rear mech. So looks like the groupset has been decided for me!

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No internal routing?

Nope, should have taken the picture after I unwrapped really. Definitely one set of guides for rear mech, but no others.

It makes perfect sense rally, all the completes are 1x setups. I just presumed it would have guides for the front mech still. I'm sure I could hack something, but as I already have a 1x Franken-groupset I might as well go for it I figure

If you really wanted front derailleur.
http://problemsolversbike.com/products/backstop

I don't want one that much, haha

Don't blame you. Get a good gear range with the right cassette and chainring. 40 x 11-32 covered most of what I rode.

You wanna sell your hylex? Dibs if so

Hmm, and only one set of holes for cables? And no way to attach a cable guide at the bottom bracket?

Well, if you've got the franken-bits, why not use 'em?

There is a cable guide under the bb, but as @TurtleRecall said, I've got the bits, so shall be using them I think.

Considering, either sell Hylex and buy Sram cx1 oooor back to square one with the DI2 hack on the Hylex hoods.

Decisions decisions

Or SRAM eTap 🤔

Let's not get ahead ourselves now. For the moment it's going to be Hylex and 10 speed bar-end shifting, doesn't scream big spender does it?

Poor quality phone pic...But finally got round to installing headset/cutting steerer so I could mock it up for the first time.

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Never got round to full build pics, here it is in off-road mode.

Also does on-road mode very well too - rode LBL earlier this year, was super comfy for all 273km and gearing was perfect. 46t up front, 11-42 in the back - appreciated that 42t halfway up La Redoute.

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:thumbsup:

nice!