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But with a front arrospok, obvs. 🙂

Haha thanks team

You're welcome

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2008 would have been like bare hands no specs

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Genuine Q,

I consider myself to have pretty terminal brain worms (stage 5, pushing into my frontal lobe), but I’ve never gotten the chain tensioner hate, they look pretty funky in a kinda outdated mechano aesthetic yet people seem to react worse to them than like, abelism I’m cycling culture

Can anyone explain?

The beauty of a singlespeed/fixed drivetrain is that you don't need a chain tensioner/derailleur. Just a chainring and a freewheel/cog, connected with a chain. It just looks clean. Getting a frame that requires a chain tensioner to set it up singlespeed just screams 'afterthought' to me.

I can respect this, approved

I hear you.

I wanted a tensioner for a parts bin SSCX race bike. It took a couple of fails before I found/adjusted the right tensioner (budget blown). By far the best were two-arm, sprung types ... so I was basically riding around with an over-priced, under developed rear mech (that doesn’t change gear). All the easy-cleaning, near-zero maintenance and efficiency of SS is lost. It still got hit and full of grass n mud so it was better just to run a few gears.

[ caveat - I’m a hooge fan of fixed on the road but hated singlespeed on trails and general off-road except actual cx races where it was alright ]

Fits the unicrown fork.

Recently swapped out the old mechanical 105 / Spyre group for a mix of what was in stock - GRX shifters, Ultegra / RX derailleurs, SLX calipers. Sugino OX still going strong after a good few years now. Need to re-bleed the rear as it's still not great but otherwise all working alright.

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very good

I honestly miss my Niner RLT9 more than any bike I've ever own!

Great looking bike @Tychom

Bit jealous - I’m keen to ditch my spyres / ultegra levers and go hydro in my gravel bike. How much of a difference?

not worth ;)

@Josh Seeing as mine is an early one, QR, post-mount, only mudguard mounts and nothing else, I had been tempted to move on rather than upgrade it, get something new. But ultimately I decided to stick with it because it really is a good bike and on balance nothing else really grabbed my attention.

@AlexD I never got on with my Spyres. I had them set up with good rotors, Swisstop pads, Jagwire compressionless housing and with very careful setup they'd be ok for a few rides. But soon after with any pad wear at all they'd just lose that perfect set up and be shit again. They alway's needed a lot of effort at the lever to get them to stop, a proper death grip. As for this GRX/SLX combo, I wouldn't say they're any more powerful at the limit- both stop the bike all the same - but it's effortless in comparison to the Spyres.

This has been my experience with spyres. I’ve had a few long, bumpy and steep descents recently that have left me with pretty sore hands from clamping down as hard as I can, while being shaken about. It’s just the cost of upgrading to hydro that puts me off. I was even considering those cheap zoom cable actuated hydro brakes to see if they’re any better.

yeah thats the version I had. Great bike.

However I realised I have access to a Zyro account and can get Niner on trade, which is very very tempting!

I need spacer advice, where we getting out slim 1 1/8 spacers from??

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where we getting out slim 1 1/8 spacers from?

A few people on here got them from me

ti ones from ebay

Yep found these almost instantly!

What do 25mm of spacers cost these days tester?

Same as they ever did. In my world 25mm is 16+8+1 so that's three spacers at £5 ea. and £2.50p&p

Obviously if it were my bike I'd put a headset cover and stem cap on there too

Nice stem, who made it?

Christmasbiek for my wife.

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I bought it of @Ottomanotter.

But it was made by @M_V iirc