Electronic & Hydraulic Shifting (Di2, Ui2, customisations)

it was on this; but yeah

fun looking bike

Cheers. Battery and the charger too it looks like, so maybe £500.

Any idea if you can replace the spring on Etap 1st Gen rear mech?

Is that yours? I thought you were balls deep in Treks?

I was contemplating something like that for the missus but now the plan is to try and get the Scott setup for me and then swap the stem/drop the post on the Stanton and see if she gets on with that. With two MTBs, we'll be unstoppable roughstuff touring machines!

that exact one isnt mine; this is; for rare occasions i try not to buy a Trek

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why do I really want one of those (power coated black)

Don't lose focus brother. That's just your carbonda with a longer fork.

this; pretty much, 650b instead of 29

I want another Bokeh, a new v3 blue one so we can roll his and hers like a couple of pensioners on their round the world cruise in matching tracksuits.
https://masoncycles.cc/products/bokeh-3-frameset

Fucksake hippy you have two bikes in desperate need of attention, stop reading marketing emails!

tbf that is a very nice blue

.....if you had to remove one, how would you?

Take the seatpost out and turn the bike upside down and give it a shake. That gets it out of my wife's bike which has one wrapped in bubble wrap and dropped down the seat tube.

Yeah that^

It is, last night I was trying to see what my genesis would look like if I had it redone in a very similar blue

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I've also used one of those long grabber claw things to get mine out (it was wrapped in bubble wrap and electrical tape which helped the grabber claw).

It's almost certainly better to use a seatpost mount (even a bodged one) than just let the battery squish the cable(s).

Yeah I've already tried shaking and the litter picker we own is too wide....I'll need to think of another solution.

Remove BB and push up.

Long wood drill bit or wood drill bit attached to something can grab into plastic (assuming you've wrapped in something softish)

I have various meter long welding and brazing rods that I can use to fish it out or push from the bottom. Not too sure what you would do without something long and skinny

Have you unscrewed your bottle cages? Sometimes the bolts holding the cages can trap the battery depending on where it is lodged.

Mine always falls down out of the seatpost to rest on the bottom of the tube.
Is that a problem?

It will be eventually. The battery squashes the cable, the cable fails and then don't have shifting.

If yours is already in the seatpost, you're half way there - just add some electrical tape or something to stop it falling out.

OK, will do!
On my old bike it was like that for years with no issues, but best to eliminate the risk. Thanks.

Yeah, same with our bikes. Like 2-3 maybe more years and then they both failed with the same issue last year and I had to go fishing around in the BB shell and replacing cables. Oh and there was that 150k of the Wessex 600k I rode singlespeed (LFGSS spirit lives on).

On mine, where it's internationally jammed down the bottom of the seat tube with some bubble wrap (because ISP), I have a bit of Kevlar string attached to it and stuck at the top of the seat tube. The plug is also at the top, with the wire running past the battery.