Current Projects chat and miscellany

Ignore the bar angle, that's me being more keen to eat my dinner than adjust it, it will go down a touch.

There are only these

No way would I paint campagnolo the andels are quite good and strong and the chain line is better,than the omniums.
Anyway makes them no different to these.

I could tell they were Andel ones. Why put £60 cranks on a £1k frame? But more importantly why put classicly styled £60 cranks on a modern carbon frame with massive tubes?

It was supposed to be this

I think i found the perfect guidon.

Spot the difference

spacer on top?

There are only these

No way would I paint campagnolo the andels are quite good and strong and the chain line is better,than the omniums.
Anyway makes them no different to these.

nice blb by the way

spacer on top?

a necessity.

a necessity.

it was underneath in the previous pic

Spot the difference

Shorter stem+ seems like new bars too?

Bars are the same, just at a bit of a jaunty show-biz angle due to my innate laziness.

Stem is different tho!!!

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I could tell they were Andel ones. Why put £60 cranks on a £1k frame? But more importantly why put classicly styled £60 cranks on a modern carbon frame with massive tubes?

I know i sometimes it's important how it looks but these days it's how it rides and these ride,really well and the chain line is very good.

How much fun would it be setting up Rotor Q-Rings on an SRM powermeter, with Di2?

so campy EPS waits for the right ramp when shifting up on the front. Maybe DA9000 Di2 will have similar?

Have you tried a full Di2 system? The front shifting just happens, perfectly, every time.

I think I've degraded mine a bit using hollowgram cranks/srm spider/Cannondale rings

@dammit

you lopped ~30mm off the stem length with the new itm?

5mm of height dropped on spacer, and new stem is at what, -7 deg?

RG wins.

Stem angle is the same as before, and yes, dropped it down 5mm and lost 30mm in length.

My Cannondale has a 575mm top tube and 120mm stem, the Klein is now 595 and 100.

I'll ride it into work tomorrow and see how it feels.

spacer on top?

5mm of height dropped on spacer

RG wins

heeeey!

unless the photo's lying there's no way the new stem is a 90 deg like the previous one!

also, it's not just about TT to centre of stem, you need to factor in the distance from tip of the saddle nose

Previous stem was also a negative, the picture may be deceptive.

Interestingly the distance from tip of saddle nose to top of hood was identical for the two bikes (Cannondale and Klein), with the old stem.

We now have 78cm nose to hood on the Cannondale and 74cm nose to hood on the Klein.

well, it looks better now, more 'right'

cough...stack and reach...cough

Really, it's the only way to measure properly. If you measure the 3 sides of the fit triangle, you have no control over the angle through which you have it rotated. Stick to Cartesian coordinates with the axes properly horizontal and vertical.

Almost completely useless picture:

The Cannondale is a lot lower at the front- lower than the Klein can ever be.

Bars and hoods make the Cannondale quite a bit longer, also.

I am sure it is something to do with this Stack and Reach business, but the Klein felt much more stretched out than the Cannondale, when they were both identical in terms of saddle to hood.

distance between nose of saddle to BB? (horizontal).

just a minor aesthetic point, but i think the Klein needs a silver stem and seatpost

Almost completely useless picture

yes, needs moar bikes!