The AlOpen UpDown (another attempt at wasting money on Dickpreciation?)

i just didn't like it as a road bike!

And i didn't like my bank balance once id built it!

And i didn't like my bank balance once id built it!

Buying another one won't help this. It'll do nothing extra that your current bike won't.

Yup - hence the current build!

Yes I just thought you were wandering into corruption (and bankruptcy) influenced by Hooples

As exciting as that sounds, i cant afford either.

And now the fork plan has failed, i now need another SRAM Force/Red HydroR caliper :(

Anybody need a flatmount SRAM Force Hydro R Caliper!?

Think I’ve got everything I need now, other than a post mount front Caliper....

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And an afternoon of mad stuff I’ve never tried before:

• hose shortening
  
• brake bleeding
  

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Yeah workstand needed

That’s better

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Shits getting real

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Jesus, man! Cover that floor up.

Jesus, man! Cover that floor up.

He has too much confidence for that. You have to respect that.

My girlfriend would castrate me if I attempted to work on bikes in our kitchen!

haha, makes me flinch too.
But did you not see his efforts to protect the wall and floor when spraying the bike on the first page?

Ok I take it back, he did say he did it out by the canal to be fair.

No engineered wood flooring was harmed during the production of this broadcast

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My Mrs does not see these things, nor understand the gravity should dot5.1 start squirting everywhere
(Neither do I TBF)
#liveandlearn

When my kitchen units and overpriced flooring start melting, I may cover them when I bleed the front brake.

But for now, rear bleed seems a success.

For everything else, there’s Bona

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I seem to spend my life buying effing Bona.

Yurp - it ain’t cheap either!

Eurgh

Weekend of woe with this build

I was hoping to have this done by now and out riding tomorrow but:

• Fork didn't fit so its back to the original fork
  
• That meant i was a hydro R caliper down as the fork was direct mount and i had one direct mount for the front and one post mount for the rear
  
• The Q-Factor on the Red chainset is too tight only having a few mm clearance on chain stay and GXP bottom brackets too tight tolerances to adjust
  
  

On the plus side:

• Fully trimmed, bled rear brake
  
• Got rotor on rear and set up rear brake
  
• Got Cassette on
  
• Got rear mech on
  
• Ordered new Chainset
  
• Ordered new BB
  
• Ordered new brake caliper
  
  

Sram Red chainset is for sale if anyone's interested......

Might get this build finished soon

Enough talk about hard wood and bonas,

Why did the fork plan fail?

because asshat here bought a 1 1/8" to 1 1/2" tapered fork rather than 1 1/8" to 1 1/4"

Fork for sale?

Already sold mate - was listed earlier in the week!

I wouldn't worry about the stay clearance I've got about a mm, nothing had has happened... Yet.

Just don’t really want to be driving a pretty nice hollow carbon crank arm into an aluminium chainstay on every rotation given 100rpm....

I noticed the problem when I set up the Ultegra cranks on this initially, but the q-factor on Ultegra 6800 seemed a lot wider, and I managed to space the spindle to give about 7/8mm which I was comfortable didn’t catch the chain stay.

If I don’t space the B.B. there is literally a mm, which means under pressure the drive into the crank arm is going to be significant.

I spaced it to get about 3/4mm but the side-load on the bearings was so much that the crankset then didn’t freely spin.

I’ve bought a rotor 3D+ crankset as they have a very wide Q-Factor and the spindle can be spaced a lot given they’re for ‘all B.B. standards’.

Wait and see, with fingers crossed, that that solves the problem and I can’t soace it to give a nice even 10mm ish each side.