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The crank is 175mm, whereas my saddle position on the Adamos, identical across the three bikes, is set up for 165mm cranks. The chinacarbon saddle is great here, because it's about 12mm shallower in stack (measured from the centre of the rails), than the Adamo. It's obviously a completely different shape, and the surface is quite slippery, so this morning I was finding myself sliding back and adopting a more horizontal torso than usual (not a bad thing, just different to what I'm used to). Whereas I'd normally lower the saddle by a couple of mm to accommodate sitting further back, there's no need to adjust seatpost height at all after fitting this saddle, and it felt spot-on earlier, with no other adjustment.
Chainring is a 42t FSA/Vision 10-11sp inner originally sourced to match a Vision carbon faced aero tri ring bought from @PhilDAS. I sanded through original horrible decals and matte clearcoated this, but it wasn't getting much use so sold it to @Borek 's better half, leaving the 42t unused until today. Definitely could go lighter but I like the way it looks, and the extra stiffness of a meaty ring should be beneficial when grinding. Might try to find a matching 40t as well, for a bit more choice.
DT R460 wheels are originally (I believe) from a Specialized Tarmac, and belonged to @Kompute. The rear axle had snapped and he needed rid of stuff before moving to Copenhagen, so they were acquired in exchange for a Sugino Messenger crankset to be used on his city bike out there. I rebuilt the rear with a used Zenith track hub from the guys who now run Hubjub. These wheels aren't particularly light, and I don't have any shallow carbon tubs knocking around, but I do have a lighter clincher front wheel (using a Kinlin XR-19W rim), so might build a matching rear a if a well priced rear hub can be found, which would save about around 60g per wheel.
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