Gazelle Champion Mondial AA Super MGOOF

Exited for you!!!!

This is going to be great

Shimano's android app says my "not sure if hack or bodge" wires work. I updated the firmware before I looked on the internets at all the horror stories from people who have done the same thing and then needed to buy another ridiculously expensive USB adapter to unfuck it when the firmware update fails. Lucky me!

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I've never tried electronic shifting. This is making me want to.

This is absolutely bonkers! Good for you! x

Wheels, and potentially controversial fork option

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Desticker the wheels or be forever damned. And keep the original fork. The black fork could work but I like the og one better.

Sub’d this could be awesome! - and dibs the carbon forks if you don’t use them! (1” right?) 👍🏻👍🏻

Told you it was controversial. I'm undecided, and the original fork is really shiny.

Wheels now 2.5g lighter each!

And a real question: the countersunk seatpost clamp bolt is much smaller than the spares I've got: those have heads about 12mm across and a barrel about 8mm. This one needs something like 9mmx5mm. Same length as normal, about 18mm. I can bodge something together, but it deserves better. Where can I get a seatpost clamp bolt the right size?

Sorry for shoddy diagram.

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Oh this is real nice. I've got soft spot for these, I'd like one myself, never seen this colour scheme though; amazing.

This is the best I've seen one built up so far...

Ceeway might have something. If you're ordering from them let me know, I'd like two barrel adjusters but the delivery is more than the parts.

Could also try a stainless M5 cap head bolt + some kind of insert, or a rivnut.

Put the bolt in a drill and grind the excess off against a file or grinder?

I measured it again, my caliper pulled out a ring of dried up crud and now an M6 bolt goes in there. I feel such a fool. If it's M6 then for the other side I can dremel a bit off a spare brake caliper nut so it's short enough not to stick out.

Thanks all.

I have seen that one on a web image search. It also appears with the proper fork and without the crabon wheels:
That one's got normal downtube shifter bosses, cable guides under the bb and chainstay, and a Gazelle logo on the seat tube cluster, so it must be the 1989 model, and it disappears from the price list after that.

'mazing! Subbed.

Interesting thread.

The postman brought me some sugru, so I stuck it on my bike.

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It's hard to make a big clunking square shifter boss look good, and I haven't. It's only about 1cm on each side though, it's not going to show.

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I put a lump of it at the back over the bit of Di2 wire that goes from the chainstay cable stop round into the breather hole underneath. It doesn't show, it's on the inside of the stay.

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Finally I put a blob of it on the back of the front mech to keep the cable tidy. That's the bit with the smallest clearance, it's right next to the side of the tyre. I've no idea how you'd get away with a mechanical front mech on this.

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Subbed. Looking great so far.
Gonna be really fun to ride, for sure!

this is amazing. i beg you to use the original fork. as a minimum, use it for the bike porn photos posted to here.

I bunked off work early to go for a test ride.

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Bar end control box, and wires attached to brake cables.
Clumsily taped handlebars are my build signature.

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Close. No cigar.