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si_mon628
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Finished my On One 456 26'er from a few pages back. As I don't fancy drilling holes in the ti frame I was limited to a dropper post that had external routing, and further hindered by the old school 27.2 seatpost. As a result the best I could find was the 125mm drop Thomson gravel post.
Also wanted a bigger large chainring for fast ripping around town, so scrapped the standard mtb rings for some 48/36/26 rings. I looked for silver or black rings but the only big ring I could find to fit these old XT triples were from Shimano's DHi-WBG range (dry heave inducing wheelie bin grey)
...which in addition to looking rank on a bike with any colour at all, even manages to look shit on a grey ti bike. I resisted my initial urges to get coloured anodised parts like 90's me would have, but wheelie bin grey is not tolerable so I ended up getting as ASBO anyway as it was out with the rattle cans.
I then discovered the XT front derailleur I had would not shift to the big ring no matter what adjustments I made, and after consulting with the internet I discover the leap to 48 was a no go with the FD I had, and I needed a treking XT front derailleur to handle that.
When I initially got the bike my initial thoughts were the bars were too wide, a few months later and 2 doors and 3 flights of stairs to get into and out of the flat was like this every time......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_CrIu01SnM
I also fancied more rise than the Easton bars had, so got some Renthal Fatbar's with a 2 inch rise and cut them down to 660mm and added some DMR V12 mags like I used to ride in the olden days, so finally finished all that this afternoon.