GT Edge Aero - Silver/Chrome - HHSRBRGRLOLWTFBBQ

dont want to ruin your thread but i secretly wanted your car to be this one
https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-reviews/holden/hsv-maloo-e3-ute-2011-review/
lots of space for the wheelsets
edit: page fail

somehow the curve of the forks is out of place.. giant once would suit better imho. burrows seatpost?

I dunno, I'm ok with the curve. I thought they'd look too skinny at first, but I actually think they look ok. I do agree that the Giant Once would look better, but I'm ok with these ones.

Yeah, Burrows seatpost. I keep looking at them...

my money is on whichever cassette that will get this out on the road sooner

I was thinking on the way into work that this doesn't seem to have happened. It's a groupset indecision issue. Maybe SRAM X7 10-speed.

I have done some buys:

• X7 2x10 trigger shifters
  
• X7 10-speed rear derailleur
  
• Rival 2x10 FD
  
• KMC chain with magic link
  
  

Massive headache trying to get my brain around the SRAM front derailleur standards and whether the X7 would work with road-size rings. I think the answer was maybe and it probably wouldn't shift 100% cleanly since the plates are designed for much smaller chainrings. I was going to suck it and see, but finally spotted that the MTB high direct mount is 90° out compared to a road braze on. Refer back to this, and I'm pretty certain that Rival 10-speed uses the same Exact Actuation pull ratio as X7, so I think we're good to go. Also got a chain with a magic link this time, because I got caught out by that one last time I did 10-speed.

What have I learned from this? Having committed to this and bought the expensive bits, that there is in fact a svelte Ultegra R780 flat bar shifter that I could have used with my 105 rear derailleur and avoided all this headache. Fuck it. But total cost of everything was less than those shifters - so maybe not fuck it after all.

Will try and start the build next week.

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I was wondering if this had been resolved yet. Looking forward to the update next week!

This blatantly isn’t going to get started this week, but the front derailleur arrived earlier than expected. Also realised I don’t have a headset - had my eye on on a classic 1” STX but it might be a short wait for the right one to come up. Could just sling in a Stronglight A9 to get it on the road. It won’t completely go with the build but I can use with something else later (e.g. the steel frame that I was planning to build)

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Got a headset. The one I had my eye on got re-listed. That's the last bit, I think.

Library image:

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Ok. Live build, live from my lab at work. Bottom bracket replaced. Old one was slightly crusty but still good 117mm UN-55, new one is low mileage 113mm UN-55.

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Homemade headset press. Has made appearance on LFGSS before.

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Last one for tonight. Headset installed. I’ll need to cut the steerer down by approx 13.5mm or spacer it.

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Definitely cut it... spacer stack is the antithesis of HHSRBRGRLOLWTFBBQ

Definitely cut it... spacer stack is the antithesis of HHSRBRGRLOLWTFBBQ

Indeed, you’re right. I don’t know what I was thinking.

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I mean, a hacksaw would have sufficed

I have some decent metalworking tools at work though, might as well use them!

This looks much better.

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How stiff are these?

(please put in frame/fork and press sideways at rim with Damon Rinard approved pressure of 115newton/11.7 kilograms: ->
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/wheel/data.htm ) :)

Rock solid? spongy?

Please put them on the bike for a photo!

Btw, I found my spare spoke for one of the broken wheels. It was in with the Nintendo Wii of course! Where else would you store a spare spoke?

Going to leave it at this for the evening. That’s as far in as the seatpost wants to go so I’ll have to cut a chunk off. I have a shorter black post but it looks rong. I need a seat collar, pair of M540 pedals and I think some gear cable outer.

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Also, what the hell do they stick these UNO logos on with? Acetone didn’t shift them so I went up to the chemicals lab and hit them with dichloromethane and still nothing. They must be anodised on.

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Oven cleaner?

I’ll check once they’re on. The spokes aren’t as carbon fibre as they look. They’re a sort of carbon loaded injection moulded thermoplastic. I ran a few sums based on rough strength of plastics and they’re strong and stiff enough compared to a steel spoke simply due to the sheer bulk of the cross section!

This is going to be so good. Would look banging with some obnoxiously jazzy grips/bar tape.

I could do with suggestions for some rowdy-ass grips. I’ve got those black mushroom grips but they’re going to need quite a lot trimmed off to clear the shifters.

Needs a silly burrows aero post I reckon

Approved.

This is hawt.

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