Electronic & Hydraulic Shifting (Di2, Ui2, customisations)

I really like the luggage on this - anyone know what system it is? @hippy?

Yes.

Drybags and straps unless you mean the Revelate top tube bag.

https://www.curvecycling.com.au/blogs/news/35160261-jesse-carlssons-curve-belgie-disc-and-pack-list-for-trans-am-bike-race

"Bike Bags - Revelate Designs mountain feed bags (x2) and gas tank bag. A Jannd saddle bag was added at the last minute in Portland to allow faster access to certain tools, tubes and vitamins

Dry Bags - SeaToSummit 4L and 2L dry bags. The larger bag attached to seat post with a stretched Arundel Stainless Steel Bottle Cage and some velcro straps. The smaller was attached to the aerobars with velcro straps. Smaller bags could have been used, but extra room allowed for storage of additional supplies if needed"

The Feed Bags and Gas Tank aren't in the website photo.

Awesome, ta. Quite like the nifty approach of stretching a bottle cage as a holder!

vitamins

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Could I swap to this PRO Vibe setup and put the battery in the steerer of the Kinesis?

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/gear-spares/shimano-pro-di2-steerer-tube-battery-mount-for-smbtr2/

http://forums.mtbr.com/drivetrain-shifters-derailleurs-cranks/shimano-xtr-di2-1-x-11-setup-994236.html

http://bike.shimano.com/content/sac-bike/en/home/news-and-info/news/pro-unveils-cable-integrated-vibe-cockpit-and-new-stealth-saddle.html

Can the battery be plugged into the Junction A or does it HAVE to go to Junction B?

Interesting idea! I read that it doesn't matter where shit is plugged in. Di2 is all modular and just requires the right number if ports in the right places.
Also dura ace levers are apparently more flexible than 6870 in this department ane you can plug whatever you want into the lever ports

I noticed that those vibe bars have a hole in the middle rear in order to thread the di2 wire through to the stem.

FYI managed to wire up an 3T aeronova bar with the EW-RS910 bar end junction box and EW-JC130 Y cable. Took me hours of fiddling but well please with the results

"For example the simplest & lightest set up for 2 x 11 would be:

LH Shifter
E-tube (shifter to digi display)
Digital Display
E-tube (digi display to junction box)
E-tube (shifter to digi display)
RH shifter

Junction box (either built in with external battery case or JC-41 (this has four ports so can take an e-tube from the battery, e-tube from the digital display and then send an e-tube to the front derailleur and one to the rear derailleur).

E-tube to battery
Battery

E-tube to front derailleur
Front derailleur

E-tube to rear deraileur
Rear derailleur"

Are those 3T bars designed for the new Di2 Y cable or did you need to drill it?

I'd be tempted to do the same thing but those aero-shaped bars are a bit pointless when I've got feedbags hanging off them :)

http://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=142456

They aren't designed for it at all, but the opening nearest to the shifters is quite large and near the corner so it's easy enough to thread up with the wires with time and patience.
On reflection I could have done this with my original ergonova bars but I never understood why my 'aero' bike came with ergonovas and have been itching to make the change since purchase.

My understanding is that as it's plug and play you can plug anything in anywhere and it'll work, although I haven't tested that to any major extent.

Ok, so I'd probably be better off looking at the new PRO bars.

Which are probably not available until it's too late for me to fit them...

Haha exactly!
Actually you can buy most of them from bike-components.de, i got all the new di2 bits I needed there and their delivery cost really isn't too bad when you review the savings.

Where does one buy these updated pro vibe stems from?

I've not looked for the stems yet but the bars don't seem available doing a 5s google search.

Looks like an insemination kit.

That's your mind doing that, not mine.

I thought it was very dildo/buttplug so what's that say about my brain?

Anyway 1000EUR for those DA levers/calipers and they're not available anyway. Looks like I'll be putting up with the current ones for a bit longer.

Will there at some point be a hydraulic drop bar brake lever that also incorporates something like the old suicide levers as it does not appear possible for the use of a cross top lever with hydros.

http://road.cc/content/tech-news/206054-hope-unveils-new-inline-hydraulic-crosstop-brake-levers-paul-oldham-winning ?

Hope V-twin plus non-hydro brifters and crosstops?

that's nice

Trawling back through the last dozen or so pages has partly answered my question regarding hiding Di2 wiring through handlbars/stem - you can use Pro finishing kit, or drill your own.

I don't like the former kit, and whilst happy to do the latter with aluminium, I can't see a third option.

I forgot about my TT shifters - if I use all that new-fangled Y-cable and PRO stem and bars, I'm still going to have two TT shifters to wire in. How will I hide their wires? Can they be fed into the stem or am I still going to need that junction box under the stem arrangement I have now (albeit with a 3-port not 5-port)?

Can you not just plug the sprint buttons directly into the second/third port of the shifters? Give it a test but pretty sure you can do that especially with dura ace levers.

@onyerbike
Don't need to drill carbon bars that already have internal wiring so long as the middle (stem) and drop corners aren't re-enforced (blocked up)....
on first attempt it may seem that they are blocked but I bent the end of an outer brake cable up slightly and did a lot of frustrated stabbing in order to path it through, I replaced this with string, made all the needed paths up that way and then pulled through the Y cable as needed.
Pretty happy with final result

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