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was also after some 47 corimas haha
I sort of lost the plot and bought a red axs group and corimas on the forum for this build.
But I realised how mental it was to be spending that sort of money on a fun bike that won’t be my primary road bike and sold it all again a few days back.The Corimas really did look the business though, the carbon weave was a near perfect match to the seat post. I really want deep section carbonz but I also want to be able to slow down when required.
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Hmm full modern group makes this a bit boring imo. Deserves a nice period correct group
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We have been living parallel lives ! All my r8000 was second hand except the crankset and wheels off another bike so not in too deep. I think if your seat post feels snug you should be ok, mine is baggy to say the least without the seat clamp on. If you did have problems you could always swap out the partial brass one for a full wrap around beer can shim with the top edge rolled out a bit and it would probably sort it. Those wheels look mad, I was under the impression braking had improved on more modern rim brake carbon wheels? But never owned any.
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I got the matching ultegra r8000 crankset on sale but kind of tempted to keep the big silver 6600!
Interesting, sounds like a remarkably similar situation to me, I also bought one of the same colourway ^^ which I never ending up collecting as I realised the listing had completed three or four times and it also had the undisclosed cracked seat tube. I knew that was a common problem but didn't find out about the death trap forks till afterwards, hence the Look forks - soon to be some straight Dedas though those 3T ones look best.
Managed a good deal on mine from a nice guy in his 60s who used it as a race day TT bike (not seen much use) said he bought it for nearly 2k second hand in 2007!! Its the anodised version so no paint as such and barely a mark on it.
Came with the very stiff reversible setback aluminium seat post and the brass shim but still slipped on the first ride - that leads everyone to overtorque, hence the cracking. Forked out on aftermarket seatpost, thinking the flex would maybe reduce the leverage on the potential crack area (also comfier) but the tolerance is even worse so have fitted a deodorant can shim going around the entire post with the join at the back; a slightly regrettable choice . Ive been using Fenwicks carbon paste but the substrate seems very sub-par compaired with the park-tool stuff I've used in the past. Hopefully can sort this out and get riding it properly.
*its a 56 and yeah ebay jobbie hylix seatpost
** was also after some 47 corimas haha