Electronic & Hydraulic Shifting (Di2, Ui2, customisations)

6700 surely?

@hippy - did you ever solve your battery vs rivnuts issue? Just got my new Strael frame and the bottle boss inserts stick quite far into the seat tube. Not sure there will be room to fit the battery past them. Trying to set up Di2 with a Canyon VCLS seatpost.

in DT?

Not exactly. Got rear-ended before I got to fuck about with them.

A few options were considered.
You might be able to squeeze it past. "Everything fits with enough force" is my motto.
Remove the rivnuts altogether.
File the rivnuts down somehow.
Trim the end of the VCLS seatpost.
Relocate the battery - I bought extra cables to move it to the framebag with idea of moving it to one of the aerobars for a more permanent solution.

There wasn't a big enough gap for it on the AT downtube. Dunno about the Strael. Not sure I'd want to remove BB material to fit it.

No room to fit it into the DT, it’s a steel frame with quite thin tubes and bb shell.

I can forgo the vcls seatpost if necessary, but I’ll see if the battery can squeeze in first.

My battery had a cover on it, so not sure if removing that would've allowed it to fit. Didn't get so gung ho with forcing it in while I wasn't sure of the ability for me to remove it.

Could you get an external battery to play with? I've seen some installations with it under the saddle.

Or use the BTC1 case which mounts your internal battery in an external case using cage bosses. Also includes a 6 port passive(B) junction.

You can mount the internal battery externally so you don't need the external battery. Like I said, I bought extra cables for mine to just dangle it in the framebag until I came up with a more permanent solution.

It was more that it's a bit more compact rather than you can't do the internal on the outside if you get what I mean.

You wont be able too.

Should have asked me first doughnut.

Put the battery in the frame bag. or down the stem and into the seat tube. Or in tri bar end It's a bit of a budge but the vcls is worth it.

Yup, Swift just told me that you have yours in the frame bag! I won't have the frame bag or the tri bars on all the time so I may have to suck it up and use a standard seatpost. I'm used to a very stiff carbon frame, or alloy with an alloy post so I'm sure a carbon seatpost in a steel frame will feel pretty plush anyway.

Unless you can you elaborate on this - 'or down the stem and into the seat tube'

Take the stem off and forks out and see if it'll fit down the head tube and into the down tube. just tape the cable to the body so you can pull on the cable on get it out.

Ah, ok. It's definitely not going to fit down there either!

Should have got sram :)

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This all sounds like a lot of faff ;-)

To be fair sram you need to charge 2 batteries with some big charger. Which is annoying for ultras.

@andyp what's the battery life?

Only in order to use a specific seatpost that I got cheap on ebay. I'll just do without.

It depends on how often you change gear obviously, but 50-60 hours is about average.

The charger isn’t that big, comparable to the Di2 charger I think.

You can charge Di2 via USB from a battery can't you? So no need for a separate charger.

Same with the Etap charger, it’s micro USB. Also you could also carry at least 4 extra batteries for the size of the di2 charger block.

Ah maybe the photos make it look bigger than it is.

@skinny

Di2 battery in the steerer tube, Pro Vibe stem.

Anyone feeling flush?

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