ultra roadie

In the borders

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Talla?

titsey? (border of kent and surrey)

yeah

reminder that gravel bikes are not real

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Looks excellent, Check your chainstay for holes

What bottoms are you running there?

Think I still have this set of the OG 24mm that I've been maturing in the midget dungeon...

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Albion Zoa Raintrousers

Can someone help me understand what's going on?

The RH r8070 lever keeps losing pressure in the hydro brake line. I've bled it 4 times and it comes back but after about 400, 500km the bite point is at the drops again. It's not spongey, just the bite point of the lever is all the way back.
There no visable oil anywhere, on the brake caliper, under the hoods, on the shifter or on the bars.
I'm totally lost for ideas and it's driving me crazy. I don't have the money to just replace the lever, line and caliper.
Any ideas?
dbad

Does the bite point return, or wander, if you rapidly pump the lever? 'Wandering bite point Shimano brake' will bring up dozens of guides on how to fix this with MTB brakes, though I'll admit I haven't experienced this with road levers before.

100% def a leak somewhere

Check if both pistons are moving freely and equally. I've seen lots R7000/R8000 calipers do this when one of the pistons has become sticky or completely stuck.

This could be a possibility. It would explain why I can’t get the caliper perfectly centrally aligned.
Why would a bleed make it feel temporarily better? I don’t have a good understand of hydraulics so interested to know.

Yeah, the constant caliper misalignment is another sign of a sticky piston.

To be honest I have no idea why it rapidly shortens the bleed intervals, but would love to know.

It's pretty easy to rectify; remove pads, advance pistons individually (by holding one piston back at a time with a wide plastic tyre lever or similar and carefully pumping the lever), rinse with brake cleaner to loosen up the dark shadowing stuck to the ceramic and then use a lint-free cloth to gently 'floss' the piston clean. Then syringe some fresh mineral oil onto the pistons to lube them before resetting them, clean everything with brake cleaner, bleed, reinstall pads.

If you wanted to pop down to my workshop in SW14 and I'd be happy to help out.

If you wanted to pop down to my workshop in SW14 and I'd be happy to help out.

If you're able to that would actually be really useful; happy to pay in £ or beer or bike parts.
Sometime next week maybe?

Will PM 👍

If anyone has a Canyon S14 VCLS inline for 27.2mm please let me know. The one with the flippable head. Can swap for Thomson/s and Tune equivalent.
Need to get some forward saddle slammage.

very @PhilDAS

i do question its effectivity in inline variety though

I'm less bothered about the 'suspension' thing and more so the design which allows a very foward position on the rails.
Current Thompson is slammed to the furthest point foward and need just a little bit more I reckon 😬
A Pro PLT might work too.

very foward position on the rails

This is the way.
Also dibs tune

Going to switch to 100mm or 110mm extension and 5-10mm less stack.
If I can shift the extra chainrings I have I’m thinking to switch to 53/39 for the smaller jump between big and small ring. 53/39 - 11/32 is more than enough for basically anything.
I’ve changed the front caliper to GRX as it was in a bad state.
I also had a set of those Prime straight pull hubs built onto alloys rims and sold the carbon Primes I had. They use that DT ratchet design so feel great and ride very well.
Then it should be perfect!?
Most normie bike I’ve had but it rides the best 😅 Already about 4000km on it this year

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Then it should be perfect!?

Schrodinger's bike, it's either never perfect or perfect in whatever form it's in. Only way to find out is to stop buying new parts....

Won’t have time to race track this year, unless I find a new job (I’m trying) so I’m thinking to turn this back into a roadie/commuter now that the weather is getting better.
Could be fun to do some fixed Audax on it too.

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now that the weather is getting better.

Citation needed.