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There is half a titanium bolt in the steerer clamp of the Team stem

Yeah, looking through the photos -

"mmmhm, yeah, rad, oh god!"

I'll admit that they're not lookers, and I would guess that the Retroshift unit could probably be fitted to other brake levers.

The question is whether there are a pair of linear pull drop bar levers that would work, and fit with your aesthetic?

There is half a titanium bolt in the steerer clamp of the Team stem

This happened to me. Arx pro ti bolt snappage. I used a very small drill bit to tap a hole in the remains of the bolt, then screwed in a little self tapper. Only needed a tiny bit of bite to then unscrew the broken bolt. Stem saved! Now I just use ss bolts from pro bolt. Also, was using ritchy torque key too.

No minis, no heels, no wigs. soniamdisappoint.jpg

The Ti bolt thing is annoying- that it snapped at ~4Nm doesn't fill me with confidence for the performance of the others at 5Nm when the bike is subjected to the stress of off-road conditions.

I've dropped the whole bike off with Sam to fix a few things whilst I'm at work, asked him to have a look at the stem, and if he can get the stub of broken bolt out to swap the bolts for the steel ones out of the Arx Pro that is on the bike right now.

The Ti bolts that are supplied must be rubbish as mine snapped when I was barely using any force, prob less than 3Nm. The stainless bolts are much better, although apart from the red stripe I may as well have bought the Arx team! Anyway, the bolt stub should be removable without destroying the stem.

Allegedly the Team stem body is a different grade of alloy from the Pro.

To be totally honest I got it because I wanted to match the red stripe on the forks/seatpost.

I don't particularly care about the weight of this bike, although that said I'm interested in what it'll actually be once the massive stack of spacers on the steerer are reduced a bit.

The frame went down 10g in weight in the repainting process.

I discovered a way to cut steerers down accurately with parts bin items: use two old stems as hacksaw guides on your steerer tube...

...I knew I couldn't've been the first person to think of that:

(from gooogle images)

Sam is cutting The Tower of Scoble down today- may already have done so.

If I had not asked him to do that then the two stems method makes a lot of sense.

I could also use my mitre saw, I imagine.

I couldn't've

oh wow.

looking like a fresh build! as others said quite stealthy!

oh wow.

I know!

Reduced the Scoble quotient slightly:

Dibs on the spacer chain.

Smart... shame the clothes line looks gash.... Bar end shifter?

Downtube does indeed look like stealth. ;-)

Still a lots more steerer than how I would run it.

Can you get a chalk and write "boredman" on it please?

that bike is basically darth vader.

Now all you need to do is get you and the bike down to Bethlem on Monday night for the summer series racing: http://www.summerseries.co.uk/

What time would the novice race start?

7.15 - all adults go in together as the whole event is being run as a go race (no BC points)

under 16's go off at 6 or 6.20 depending on age

If you don't fancy racing, you are more than welcome to come along and marshall

I'd prefer to race, might have to arrange to leave early in order to get there in time.

At least I'll have warmed up.

It's approximately 1 hour from central London by bike, and we'll keep sign on open as late as possible so as long as you are away by 6 pm you should have plenty of time.