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Interesting, I'll try that - thanks for the suggestion.
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I've found the culprit to the Ritchey's shifting woes! Spent some time looking & comparing with the shifters on the Donohue (also R8000, but rim brake) & noticed something different.
Just above the inner paddle there's a little plastic catch thing which pushes one of the levers in when pushing the outer & the inner to shift up. They're easily removable & after taking them out, it seems that the front one had snapped.
All well & good figuring that out but now how do I get a replacement? You can buy whole new shifter arms but that's like £60 when I only need a small plastic bit. Maybe I'll just have to swap it from the road bike to the CX one when I go on rides. Anyone got access to Shimano spares catalogue? Or maybe a 3D printer if I can figure out how to model it.
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Ta! Was a battle but glad I could figure it out. I spent a lot of time looking in the shifter but really I should've looked at the arm first - that would have saved myself a lot of stress & time.
Went out & tested it this afternoon & it worked perfectly. Rode to four different supermarkets, all of them nearly cleared out of essential foods. Bonkers.
Looks like I'm going to be WFH until further notice, so going to need to get out on the bike at lunch times more otherwise I'll go completely insane. Feels like cabin fever is setting in already.
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If I can squeeze it in between meetings! I find when I timebox myself for rides like that, they nearly always end up being really smashy solo rides, which aren't always that appealing.
How's work for you down at the shop? Quiet? My bro says his workshop has been super busy this week.
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Shops doing ok, but this is early days. We’ve got quite a bit on the go currently but who knows what the next few weeks/months will bring. Less money in the economy will mean less spent on luxury items such as shiny bikes and services to keep them running perfect. Just hoping that there’s a miracle and this all fizzles out after a month or 2. We’ll see.
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Hopefully it all stays going alright. Saw the post on social media about sanitising any bikes which come in/out & that sounds like a very sensible course of action.
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In other news, rode nearly seventy miles of tracklocross on Sunday on 23mm tyres & my hands still kill. Quelle surprise.
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Ha! TBH, you can't realistically consider kids in the current world climate. Maybe one day, then I can move into #dadbikes
I built it up pretty soon after getting it back from the painters, but left it for a fortnight in the house before riding it. Paint wasn't damaged by building it up (clamped the seatpost etc.), so figured it'd be fine.
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It's currently setup as 49/18, would only really use it on flatter off road rides. I'm not a spinner so prefer to push harder (soz, knees). Cheers!
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This is probably something I ought to worry about, isn't it? Urghhh!
Hopefully just a crack in the paint, but it does feel like it goes in a bit, & the colour is the colour of rust. Since it was newly repainted, it does feel odd that this was missed somehow though. Can't be new, I've only ridden it four or five times since it was resprayed, hmm.
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ah thats a bummer, maybe file away some paint and make sure its not just some funny paint buisness? you never know
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Yeah, I guess so, just thought they might have noticed! Though I didn't notice anything while taking it apart to be repainted, nor when I rebuilt it afterwards.
@Biggles567, sanded it back, it's hard to tell what's going on really, but it's obviously not right as I can't sand that bit with it going in a bit. Think @TM is right & it's probably new chainstay, which isn't ideal straight after painting.
@TM, is Woodrup open at the moment at all? Any idea how feasible it'd be to bring it down for someone to have a proper look?
This is proper crap as I was looking forward to riding this over summer, which has already been curtailed. Possibility of being furloughed on Monday is making for a rubbish weekend.
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Do you have anything fine you can get into that paint with? You might as well get a proper look at it, if it's broken it's going to need replaced anyway, and it doesn't sound like you're going to ride it without knowing. The area looks good though?
A rusted chainstay is what brought my time with my 853 donohue to a close, but that was pure negligence
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We’re currently open as usual, closing for full bank holiday weekend though. The frame builder will be in mon-thurs if you want to bring it down for us to take a closer look. Try scratching the paint out of the Potential crack, should Reveal more. But yeah looks bad. If you’re thinking you’ll want a repair it will be easier to bring bare frame. Really shitty timing as the bike was looking great with the new paint.
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So I've been depressed about the Donohue. Before I got it repainted, I noticed a bit of rust in the tubes, but thought it was probably wasn't too bad. Now with that crack, I'm not sure it's worth the hassle. Basically, as I see it, if that's happened there, then I can't see why it wouldn't happen to any of the other tubes in the next six months. So simply getting that one tube fixed/replaced isn't really going to work. I've got some great use out of it, perhaps it is time to say goodbye to that frame. It was my first road frame, I got over twelve & a half thousand miles out of it, three tours (outer Hebrides, Pyrenees & Swiss/Italian alps) & a lot of fun.
In the meantime, @TM has flogged me a GT Force frame, which I built up this morning while in a bunch of meetings I only really needed to listen in (WFH does have its perks sometimes). Pretty much all the way there except I underestimated the stack height of the headset while looking at what forks I had available (am about 30mm short :( ), so am after something with a longer steerer. Anyone got a 1" road fork with a ~250mm steerer knocking about?
I've had one of these frames before briefly - always found the triple triangle cool - but it was way too small for me so sold it on. Looking forward to riding this.
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Had a similar thing on 105 shifter. Take it, remove the band/clamp, there's a small bolt/screw back there, tighten it up, should help with the shifting, worth a look anyway before shelling out on a new shifter.