Seven Axiom S

G3 spoke pattern inspo

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Lotta work for slightly different hood ergonomics but hope you enjoy it!

Yeah, but it’s the difference between my hands not being happy and my hands being happy 🤷🏻‍♂️ And I wanted to try Campag. And I like how it looks. And what else am I gonna do during a pandemic when I’m at home all day 🤷🏻‍♂️

@gillies will do when I ride in the morning. Nothing to write home about though. Be warned!

sorry to see your hands were unhappy for last 10 years or so

I think about changing from 19t to 18t on my fixed and think 'dunno if I can go to all the effort'😂

Like DA9100, it's pretty easy to setup badly. I'd take it to a shop if I were you.

And go easy shifting under stress, my campag bro says he has to ease off more than with shimano

This is like common sense in reverse at max RPM.

I had planned to at least try and then take it to the shop as a last resort but the bike boom has meant most shops have a two week labour queue...

That was me, black tyres (nearly) always look better, especially on rim brake bikes where the sidewalls get so shitted up after one wet ride, not really a problem in Cali though I guess.

They are pretty dirty but not thaaaaat bad.

Crap photo but this is it with black tyres. Might try some Veloflex next. Or some other cotton open tubular that’s black. Where are the black open pavé when you need them, eh?

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https://fm-boyaux.cc/en/road/42-pro-carbon.html

Go on...

Ha! I've had them open in a tab all morning. But the questionable QC worries me. Have seen lots of photos of tread separated from the casing fresh outta the box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9RCIMEIG9g

Yes. I did that ride at the weekend. It was surprisingly tough after emptying myself on another decent climb a few KMs before.

Everything has now arrived. These Zonda’s are really very nice. The rear spoke pattern is nowhere near as offensive as I anticipated.

Installed Chorus 12 yesterday. Went better than planned having never installed, worked on or used Campagnolo anything. Shifting was great in the stand so I was hoping it was on the road too. Fortunately, it was! Shifting is superb front and rear. Having four trim positions on a cassette as wide as 11-32 is really helpful. I was expecting it to be quite a noisy drive train - and it is - when you shift. It shifts with such a clunk that you know you have shifted. I like it. However when pedaling away, it's silent. One thing that is noticeable is it's simply not as easy to shift out of the saddle as Shimano, but that's okay.

Braking fantastic also and hoods incredibly comfortable - one of the main reasons I wanted to try Campagnolo in the first place.

Shout out to these Zonda's as well. They have gradually grown on me up until now where I can actually say I like them. The white background that product shots are taken on do these wheels no favours in the looks department. Ride wise, they are stiff under my current 90KGs of heft, have an almost silent freehub body which I wanted, hubs feel silky smooth, but most importantly and much to my surprise, they're really comfortable. The joint on the rim was almost invisible and the rim itself and it's braking surface are really well finished. For $350 I don't see what is not to like.

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Looks really good

Looks very nice. I don't know that much about gears etc but why go for a band on FD when if you got is custom built you wouldnt get the FD hanger brazed on?

Well, Seven don’t do them AFAIK. In fact, not sure I’ve seen any titanium braze ons.

Outside of that, less adjustability. I may want to go for sub compact rings in the future and a braze on would limit derailleur choices/may prevent me from being able to use sub compact altogether.

They also look a bit dorky and can get damaged. There’s also no real advantage to it IMO - unless you find the clamp offensive - which I don’t.

It was a general info type of question really. My second hand custom Roberts (from 2004 I think) has braze on and wondered why. Cheers anyway, enjoy your ride!

No no I know. My Talbot has one too. I think it’s a bit more common on steel because they are brazed on (Obvs lol) whereas TIG welding one onto a seat tube would be incredibly fiddly. Just a guess as to why they’re uncommon on Ti though.

Also I suspect because there are no commercially available Ti front derailleur hangers, as far as I know. I'm not even sure you can do investment cast pieces in titanium, so they'd have to be machined from billet, which would be extremely expensive. And wasteful.

Nope, turns out Ceeway sells one, part no. 792. It doesn't look exactly pretty though, possibly on account of the fact it appears to be stamped from plate. And welding it into place might well be quite tricky, especially if the seat tube is butted.

Nice. Be good to hear your thoughts on the levers on longer rides. I can’t get on with Shimano or sram new or old so might have to go back to camp in the future.enjoy

Rode for five and a half hours with lots of climbing today and they were great. Lots of hand positions possible on those shifters which I find really useful for climbing. The comfort isn’t even my favourite thing. It’s the shifting itself. It’s great.

Shifting whilst climbing was better than I thought it would be. I haven’t started to shift used the thumb shifter with my pinky like some people do, but it was no better or worse than Shimano.

The braking is really good. It is the closest to the feeling of hydraulic brakes I’ve found in cable operated rim brakes. Probably a combination of the pads, cables and well machines rims but there’s no friction at all. Feels really good to use. Actual stopping power is really impressive too. Have no concerns in that department whatsoever.

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