The Art of Looking

I am a bit confused as I know Di2, but not EPS

Thanks for the suggestions, unfortunately this answers your own questions I'm afraid. Though your tips would no doubt work with di2 they won't with EPS. The two connectors are the same size. You can't disconnect the cable from the battery. The two connectors have to join in a very specific way, there is no way you can do it blind alas.

I went to Condor today and they suggested Carbon Bike Repair being able to deal with it. I'm against cutting and resoldering the EPS cable as it doesn't get around the difficulty with accessing the junction. I'll contact Carbon Bike Repair on Monday to see if they can make the necessary modifications, in the meanwhile I'm going to work at the hole with some very fine grade emery cloth

I spent this morning at the Enough Is Enough protest at Kings Cross, and this afternoon I decided to stage my own little Enough Is Enough protest, where I was the keynote speaker and the only invitee was the Look. The outcome was this

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What was the successful method?

Grit and determination! No modification necessary save for a very very very light bit of sanding.

I just need bars and a chainset and then I’m good to go

LOOKS great 👌

how's this coming on?

I’ve been away for a little bit so progress has been slow. But I have everything I need to put it together, except time!

I you do find some time... I would like to see some more pictures of the frame and all the parts

I’ll see what I can do. I’m currently on a train in the arse end of nowhere

Some progress this morning whilst putting off other stuff. I installed the BB, levers, some of the cables and gave the steerer an initial cut. I am planning to attach the interface underneath my out-front garmin mount. The most annoying thing so far has been getting the rubber hoods over the lever bodies. Tyres are tubeless GP5000 but currently they have inner tubes in as I don’t have time this morning to set them up properly.

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Put brakes on, cut cables a little more. Still no chain. Trying to figure out cable routing and whether to shrink wrap or use spiral stuff to neaten things up.

The saddle, bars and levers haven’t been positioned properly and obviously the interface isn’t set up in its proper position either

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Shrink wrap is the smarter option imo, but obviously more permanent and more faff than the spiral things.

Proceeds to fill 2 pages about guiding a cable through a hole, then

The most annoying thing so far has been getting the rubber hoods over the lever bodies.

lol. In any case, don't wrap them with the spiral stuff, the shrink wrap looks WAY nicer. When you come by to drop off the FD you can borrow my heat gun, and I've got spare shrink wrap too.

See below my road, and my TT bike. I am definitely using shrink wrap when Im going to redo the TT bike. The road bike has wrinkles because I just used a hairdryer on it, just got my heat gun yesterday :)

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Super jealous you finished your look so quickly!

Mine has been in the shop for almost 2 months and counting. (Wish I have the expert skills of building bikes from scratch).

Cheers man, that’s really kind of you

Cheers man. Two month wait is wild - I’m amazed they want to keep a bike in the workshop for that long taking up space. If you’ve got the right tools and a bit of common sense and/or are practical pretty much most stuff is quite straightforward to do.

Yep, they're definitely not happy with that bike being in the shop for that long.

Agree, do have a common sense part, just not the tools to bravery to embrace the chaos of the build.

The devil is in the details… unfortunately I’ve been away too much to actually get this finished off. Terrible weather also means that when I’m back I’ve just been out on my steel Serotta.

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Terrible weather also means that when I’m back I’ve just been out on my steel Serotta.

Lovely problem to have, bike looks great

I’ve continued to be away a lot recently so only have little pockets of time, but I find myself almost taking a perverse pleasure in dragging it out. The bike building equivalent of edging. Shrinkwrapped the cables and went with this solution for a more elegant mounting of the EPS interface unit than attaching it to the stem.

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Finished yet?

Well it has a chain on it now. I had to remove and reinstall the chainset which was a pain as there was something funny with the bearings. It’s normally a doddle, but removing the locking pin is a right hassle with external cups, though I came up with a fiendish solution with fishing line.

Train strikes have wreaked havoc with me being able to be at home but hopefully I’ll get it done in the next few days. I’ll upload a photo in its current state when I get home

@Hoke here you go. Apologies for the naff photo

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