Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

Sram 1130 on Ebay,

Still more than 14.99 though.

Their connector link is made with a different material than the rest of the chain and corrodes very easily.

nut is much easier to bleed a brake

Nod nod nod

Allen key bleed ports suck

Also from PX at same price @hippy
https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CHKMCX11/kmc-x11-11-speed-chain

Or get the EL for the price of a HG601
https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CHKMX1EL/kmc-x11-el-11-speed-chain

Recently had subpar shifting when using a Sram 1130 with a CS-HG700-11 (11-34) cassette, while it worked well with the CS-R7000 (11-32).. Not sure why

Cheers. The last couple I bought were £17 off ebay. I only look when I need them, then buy 2-4 of them at whatever the cheapest price I find is.

Lots of reason for this, chain if it haven’t been changed for new cassette, chain might be a gnat too short, b-screw. As well as upper and lower limiter, derailleur hanger could be slightly out, etc.

I was just talking like for like here. I had a 11-34 with a HG601 chain, swapped both cassette and chain going for 11-34 (same cassette but new) and PC1130. Everything else was the same, hence why I couldn't explain it.

Technically the Shimano chain work best with Shimano cassette, ultimately it’s hard to tell sometimes.

Yeah, came to the same inconclusive conclusion, but KMCs are good

If you can't tell the difference, then the cheaper option is the better product.

I always have used a mix of Shimano/SRAM and sometimes KMC in cassettes and chains. Never had any problem other than my own indexing. If anything I'd say the expensive chains are good right out of the box and the cheaper ones feel a bit rough at the beginning, regardless of brand.

Arkose D3 ... Does it have routing for dynamo cables?

For posterity: @hippy was correct and six separate Evans employees are incorrect.

Shout out to my man Graham at Reading Evans for the hard facts.

The Arkose D3 does have the fork leg routing and rear light routing. It has rubber grommets at the headtube and the back end of the toptube. I think they’re for 6mm round Shimano grommets (like those used for Di2).

The X had routing too, the D1 doesn’t.

The cheap ones have a fork with alloy column, maybe that's the difference.

If only they still sold the forks separately

For posterity: @hippy was correct

#hippyisalwaysright

I like internal dynamo routing. The 4s had it but the Tripster just has a pile of electrical tape around the top tube for bag protection and to hold the cable down.

Wow

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If sharks could design bikes

Some OG gravel / functional here on ebay!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224211162003

Very cool build

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Looks like a bike with a Halloween costume

Argh my eyes!

I googled that Ridley.

I learned that german brand Ghost has a model called endless road rage.
And one called fire road rage. Nice names.

:)