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Dust cap and bar angle tolerance : )

Dust cap and bar angle tolerance

You're not bothered by the absolutely rank colour scheme then?

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Classy work by @hoops as always, straight to porn.

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I'm digging the straight seatpost and slammed -17 stem. Very cool! Including the paint.

Could have used a bar end junction though.

HHSGBP : )

Pretty flawless build though. Valve stems is about the only thing I can think of.

Pro teams don't use bar end junction box as they make changing components after crashes, and finding/fixing any faults with the circuit (loose connections etc) much, much more time consuming for mechanics.

Yet Quick Step routes their di2 junction under the saddle?

Yes, thats still the standard external juntion box, just mounted in a different place. The connections are still easily accessible. Doesn't really matter where its mounted, its the accessibility to connections that is important.

I'm sure there are some pro bikes that use them somewhere, they just make fixing connection problems impossible whilst on the move in a race, and much more time consuming whilst in the mechanics stand. Time is something pro team mechanics are very short of on multi day races, so most teams will use the standard junction box (some mounted in more aerodynamic places than others, as you point out) to ensure any problems can be fixed as quickly and easily as possible.

I think the only reason is because carbon/alloy bars snap/bend quite easily during minor accident so bar-end placement is the last solution you want to adopt.
EW-RS910 is great but it needs to be integrated in the frame to make mechanic’s job easy.
Not sure about the new Venge’s jb position, that must require some routing skillz and extra long cables.

I'm sorry, but that saddlebag is awful.

Bingo!

Tbf this bike is so good I didn’t even notice it before you mentioned it

Very nice build, needs carbonio seat post(I hate those seat posts)+ black sadddle.

I hate those seat posts

It's a nice Nitto seatpost (S65). What do you not like about them?

I think I had this conv like a year ago on this thread, but do you not think that it could look even a little better?

I'm a big fan of form following function but, this has nothing. It looks like a pipe that was bent at the top and had a hole drilled through the top.

If you compare to:

do you not think that it could look even a little better?

Not saying there aren't nicer seatposts out there, but personally I don't mind it. Fair enough on your examples!

It matches the nitto pearl and (full) Japanese build but true this one would had been probably better

Lovely bike, maybe Flite saddle, duraace 7400 seatpost and stem would make it better for me.

(I know some duraace seatposts were made by Nitto)

The only DA seatpost long enough for @Señor_Bear is 7410
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Nitto pearl look's like Cinelli 1A that matches nicely with a Supercorsa...
Nitto 65 look's like 3TTT record or ITM's that matches too : )