Isen workshop: adventures in batch production (or not...)

I'm interested to see how you do that. Hose routing is fully enclosed and comes out under the downtube. Di2 hole is not on same side of the frame, unless your frame is different from mine.

mine has 4 holes on the down tube

2 drive side close to the head tube
1 non drive side close to the head tube
1 at the bottom by the BB shell

one hole on the drive side is for brake hose that feeds through a guide all the way to the hole near the BB shell

on the drive side i shall use the other hole for the Di2 cable that will then run down to the BB and go up into the seat tube. inside seat tube will be the junction box, and one cable will go from there up the seat tube to the hole for the front mech. another wire will go down from the junction box, through the bb shell and then along the drive side chain stay for the rear mech

on the NDS of the frame there is another hole (opposite the Di2 hole) for a dynamo cable to be fed through the down tube and then back up the seat tube to connect a rear light.

was yours specced for Di2 internal?

you could use this hole for the di2 gear wires

i am not at home so can't take a photo of my frame right now

on another note, Evans fucked up and don't have my rear mech after all. so I have had to order one from Germany.

So I will have to wait another week to build my Isen.

No worries. We do have different frames then. I've only got the one hole on the drive side by the head tube for brake hose. I thought all frames were spec'd the same way. Speaking with Caren I've now realized that the derailleur Di2 wire holes need to be drilled by me because I didn't let Verity know the groupset earlier. These are reinforced but not drilled. Sounds like the head tube drive side Di2 port was another casualty. I can make it work but it won't be nearly as nice looking.

Thanks for the detail.

it should have a hole for the dynamo, which you could use

I'll try to cleanly route the wire under the downtube and up into that hole. Trying not to make it look like a hack job is the issue.

do you not have a hole like the picture in this post

where can these be sourced from? have you got a couple?

Yup, that's the one. I think the route is bring the wire to the frame with the rear brake hose then cross over to non-drive under the downtube to get into that hole.

Every bike shop ever. Use google. So needy.

shimano brake caliper fixing bolt c, part no Y8N208020 does not show up on many shops inventory, SJS want £5.95 a pop

Lol and you’re spending how much on the bike?

so where else has them in stock?

i can find them for 3.53 euro in Germany, but not in stock on ebay etc

show me your googlefu

Effort. I’m cooking dinner

Every bike shop ever

prove it

no, because your statement is bullshit.

Such an angry man James. Other manufacturers of 25mm bolts exist. Sram charged me like £15, just get the SJS ones.

so you can't find them?

Don't they have hardware shops that sell stainless bolts of various lengths and sizes in your idyllic countryside existence, or are they all still using imperial?

not these weird proprietary shimano bolts, no

Then buy the right fucking ones from SJS jesus christ

i loathe sjs, always overpriced, plus shipping. ended up ordering from Germany instead

@phildas thought they could be found in every bike shop, am yet to find the in any other shop in the UK