Electronic & Hydraulic Shifting (Di2, Ui2, customisations)

The stem/bar/fork interface is a great idea, surprised he didn't use the hoover/string method to get the cable through the hole.

All that trouble, and he goes with an external battery?

That's what I thought when I saw it. He even goes to a huge amount of trouble to mount it. Any ideas of how save/smart/stupid/acceptable drilling a carbon-steerer fork for that customisation would be?

I have no idea, but in the fog of my ignorance I'd be scared to do it.

Haven't owned a Di2 equipped bicycle, but wouldn't it be easier to change/charge battery that way?

It'd be easier to zip-tie the cables to the outside of the frame as well Ed.

The internal battery for newer Di2 does require a charging port that is accessible to plug the charger into, but you don't need to remove anything- just plug the bike in, as it were.

Gotcha.

It would be cool if he managed to make some kind of plug integrated to the frame a la Matrix.

Rob English does this.

By front mech: http://www.englishcycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ted04.jpg
Front of seat mast: http://www.englishcycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/English_Cycles_008_3006.jpg
Rear of seat mast: http://www.englishcycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/English_Cycles_016_2611.jpg

I'd love to have one of those connectors on my road bike, currently I have to take the seatpost out.

Gonna have something like that on the Oak?

Nah, that's old Di2 on the English.

Ok, the new junction box has turned up, so I can charge the system without taking the battery out- bonza.

It's a 2000 mAh battery as well, which should last for ages, again, bonza.

However, the new box is designed to go under the stem, and it's only got one button on to clear the "fuck I've crashed" setting which makes the rear mech hide in an impact.

This means that the trim setting function is absent- unless, presumably, you then plug the standard front wiring harness into the front junction box, or, I suppose, set up the rear shifting with one junction box, then change to the other for riding.

^They got into B&Q now too

http://sugru.com/go/bandq

That's what I thought when I saw it. He even goes to a huge amount of trouble to mount it. Any ideas of how save/smart/stupid/acceptable drilling a carbon-steerer fork for that customisation would be?

There's differing opinions, No and NO!.

However, the new box is designed to go under the stem, and it's only got one button on to clear the "fuck I've crashed" setting which makes the rear mech hide in an impact.

Where does it go?

I've put two rear mechs through my rear wheel in as many years. So I would'nt want it going closer to the wheel.

it leaps from the rear triangle and transforms into a mini motobike, rolling away on the jockey wheels, whistling a merry tune

It would appear that Shimano have surpassed themselves in terms of being cunts with the new internal/seatpost battery.

You need to purchase a special collar and bond that into your seatpost, then slide the battery into that and retain it with a snapring.

They include the snapring, and a couple of bits of plastic with the battery, but do they include the collar? Do they fuck, that's probably another £50.

Wankers.

That sucks.

I hate to think what going through this with Campagnolo ESP would be like.

Nice but pricey I imagine.

This is the little bugger:

An alloy collar that you bond in, if only anywhere on earth sold them.

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I'll wrap it in old inner tubes and jam it in.

Carbon assembly paste and another snap ring?

You filthy, filthy bastard

Prototype is a bit ghetto, it is true.