Current Projects chat and miscellany

Yes, cables under the tape.

The levers work with most calipers, but not the latest Shimano (7900, 6700 etc.) which have a slightly different cable pull.

thanks man, made my night a whole lot easier

just finished building up this. hopefully it dries up so i can get some track time.

Love that grunts

Riddle me this: does campag 11sp use the same campag hub?

As 9/10 speed? Yes I think so.

Mendez is noice. Great subtle use of red, white and blue. I do think it deserves repainting though. And the little bit of purple on the shamal logo confuses things.

Very excited, new DA 7600 and H+ TB-14 arriving today for a nice weather rear wheel, gonna build it up and take it for a ride in this lovely weather, lets hope it lasts...

New wheels arrived yesterday for my Fuji. they ride great!

Any chance your selling the old ones?

stripped this down, will clean it up and make like steve austin

What was a new Giant TCR A1 (the alloy/carbon framed one) four years ago has slowly been transformed into this. Frame was bought off ebay last month and after having to wait for BB30 adapters, built up last week. Replaced the pedals with SPD-SLs since taking the photo.

All that's left from the Giant is the 105 chainset, saddle, stem and bars. Since I've still got everything that came off that, am planning to put it all back together and leave it at my sister's to use when I'm up north.

Riddle me this: does campag 11sp use the same campag hub?

Yes and no.

Offically the mounting area of the casstte is the same. But some hub designs dont play so well with it. I know that Tune hubs have/had possible issues with the driveside flange. I have a wafer thin spacer between my cassette and my Tune Mag180. I've experimented with various set-ups, and this gives the best shifting to the big and little sprockets.

IIRC, my set-up is pretty worse case, due to the size and positioning of the driveside flange (also why I choose this hub). So you should be able to make any 10spd campagnolo hub work with 11spd cassette. Just maybe not OTP.

@Brun - very nice. What brand is the headset?

Cheers. Headset is cannondale's own, 1⅛" - 1½" tapered

Yes and no.

Offically the mounting area of the casstte is the same. But some hub designs dont play so well with it. I know that Tune hubs have/had possible issues with the driveside flange. I have a wafer thin spacer between my cassette and my Tune Mag180. I've experimented with various set-ups, and this gives the best shifting to the big and little sprockets.

IIRC, my set-up is pretty worse case, due to the size and positioning of the driveside flange (also why I choose this hub). So you should be able to make any 10spd campagnolo hub work with 11spd cassette. Just maybe not OTP.

hope hubs no worky with 11 spd too...

Someone did said something about being able to make the Hope hubs work with the 11 speed cassette not long ago on this very forum, need to find it.

hope hubs no worky with 11 spd too...

I think Campagnolo cheated to fit the extra sprocket in. This can lead to the chain hitting the spoke shoulders, while on the biggest sprocket. I had some BB/sprocket spacers lying around from a VeloSolo multipack I bought. The thinnest of which should solve this without causing the chain to hit the seatstay in the smallest sprocket.

I've probably got a couple more, if you need one chucking in the post Ben.

just need a new ring now... wish they were 170's for my tt bike but sadly they are huge so they'll be on the brompton or the single speed mountain bike - feels wrong!

nos sweet wings by monomaniac(tom), on Flickr

oh are they those snappy Ti ones?

You do crack me up sometime spotter.

steel baby. and no, not snappy - but if they do i can get them welded back up :)

they only weight 550grams with BB

thats very light, im suspicious

they're hollow

530grams....

http://mombat.org/1195SweetCrank.jpg

thats very light, im suspicious

You haven't seen lighter then.