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You can get the whole adapter set here

Titanium frame, finishing kit TBC, purple chris king bling & black mavic rims.

The question: black or silver spokes?

Very specific, but maybe someones got one knocking about. 34" or more. Some models that fit the bill:

Dell P3424WE
Dell S3422DWG
Dell U3419W

Epic dredge, but I just did a case replacement on my own garmin, which is essentially the same steps as a screen replacement, just swapping a different part. If you have this broken garmin in a drawer somewhere I could have a crack at it.

Sure no problem! The monkey's paw curls....

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Long time no post!

The TT bike has been used and abused since, got a new front end, proper Di2 stuff, a clincher disc and a new saddle. Will post about it at some point.

But! The original thread starter, the Space Chicken has reached its final form - if there is such thing with bikes. During the Wiggle frenzy I bought a carbon wheelset and a GRX 400 mini-group for about £320 total which was a bargain, and finally got around building it up. Quite happy with the results, cant comment on the ride yet.

@branwen @ketsbaia do you know if the hubs have cartridge bearings?

Guess its our lucky days! I've got a PM caliper with the silver arm that I'd like to swap for a flat mount one. Sending PM!

Anyone got anything?

Adhesive backed velcro tape. Lets you access the bolts under it while adjusting..etc.

Tubular tape mignt also be a strong enough adhesive that it’ll be a big headache removing with bits of foam ripping off first instead of adhesive separating from metal plate.

Just yesterday I changed the case on my 5 year old Garmin 520+ because the rubber buttons on the side wore through, and water could enter the case freely.

It could have been a 5 minute job if it was made with a gasket (or liquid gasket) and screws, but no, I had to spend a fair bit of time scrubbing it clean of glue before putting it back together. Well annoying, but also a sense of pride that I could do it.

One upside of the rise of aliexpress, Taobao and the like is that now theres direct access to parts that are otherwise not really available. The case I got was very clearly a previously assembled whole unit, with its serial sticker removed. I doubt I could have gotten this via Garmin UK, much less for £20 with a new battery.

I thought these had that weird dome cap thing going on.

Oh that's just the custom finish for the original owner :D

Your bike's bargain value just went down a bit the other day with the ballache around the cable stops, but it just shot right back up :D

Yes, pending a picture of the damage... :D

I just swap the pads themselves, not the shoes. If the wheels are similar enough width then you dont need to setup the brakes again.

Its a right pain to remove it properly, but with the right tools (some plastic/wooden scrapers, goo remover) it can be made a lot easier.

Glueing is straightforward following detailed instructions.
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I never taped myself, but witnessed a mechanic doing it and it was very swift, instructions here.

OH! And if you're swapping wheels, dont forget to swap your brake pads. Metal shards from using the alu wheels can gauge the carbon wheels.

When a 5 minute job turns into a whole evening... My TT frameset was also a deal, but it was a whole day's worth of work chasing threads, fishing ripped cables out from it, getting stuck BB out. At least once its done, its done!

As for the tubs, TT specific tubs can be quite flimsy so if youre also planning on doing more rides outside with the same wheels to get more comfortable on the bike (not just race day), I'd get something other than those.

I want the opposite, I want the hook to stay up when I take the wheel out! I think crushing it in a vise will do, I can also drive a small screw in the hinge that does the job too.

Thanks all!

What were they thinking

Im back again with another bodge request, open to ideas! I bought a couple of these wall hangers to store my wheels - they are pretty cheap at £3 a piece, but despite the product description theyre the version where the hook swivels. Thats not good for me, as the wheels are high up where I can only reach the bottom of the wheels, not the swivel to fold it into position when putting up the wheels.

As far as I can tell, its stamped steel. I considered:
blast the hinge with a heat gun and then solder it (no paint on the inside of it)
fixing it in position with superglue then epoxy the inside of the hinge

Any clever bodge ideas?

literally had the same realization :D

I am exactly that way inclined. :) Thank you & everyone else for the tips, I'll just need to get my hands on a shimano compatible cheapo PM caliper and im off to go.

Personally I trust the big bike brands that employ multiple engineers and subject experts with much higher QC standards than cottage/vlogger industry.

I think some of the cottage vlogger community demonstrated that they have the tools & skills to measure the discrepencies they highlight. On the other end of it brands can be super shady when they'd need to admit to their QC faults (eg: Cannondale first says frame is unsafe to ride due to user error during installation, then issues brand new frame that has the exact same issue fresh out of the box, Cannondale now says its by desig
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Here's a Praxis crankset that I bought from a guy who said he tried 3 different BB/crank brands but the bearings would never last. Its not about an annoying creak, its about binning a BB every few thousand kms. Just because there are a lot of happy users with perfect frames, that shouldnt invalidate the experience of others who paid a lot of money for something that doesnt live up to spec. And you are left with grifters who provide a niche solution to a niche problem.

Hambini can still be a knob. Both things can be true.

Another thing to consider with the one-piece that you need to have a clean full bb-shell width hole through the frame. No brake cables, rivets...etc in the way of the shell to go through.

but they don't fit in a small(?) subset of frames that have bent shells that perhaps shouldn't have passed QC, so he's pissed off his product don't work/sell?

Not here to defend him as a person(ality), just explaining the product: He's pissed at the poor QC in general, and his product solves the problem by being a one-piece BB (or the thread-together version) with the bearings much better aligned within that BB. There are products with the same idea, in a similar price range by other brands like bbinfinite.

My frame's PF30 BB was creaking crazy with the basic shimano BB, but a Wheelsmfg thread-together BB solved the issue entirely.

If you follow someone less abrasive like Rhino's workshop you can see other people being fed-up with having to face surfaces and chase threads on brand new premium £3-4k frames.