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Maximum Pace
- Aug 27, 2012
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Well the bike is "finished" and I'll be taking it out shortly for a quick 30k ride with the HF guys to allow me any spot tuning thats required. Let me cover the rest of the build first....
I needed to get the fork fitted so I measured up the full set of spacers I had bought, another large one on top of the stem, and then marked up with a 3mm spacer removed to get the height down from edge. My approach to cutting it is to use a junior hacksaw; I do a light cut all the way round first (depth of 1-2mm) before doing the full cut. One interesting thing was how much harder it was to cut this stem than the one on my Boardman Pro. I suspect a higher amount of Kevlar/Carbon (over Glass) as well as a stiffer resin at play.
After greasing all the places the bearings touched and putting "fiber grip" on any parts that needed tightening to the carbon, the resultant stem looked like this (note I started with a 110mm stem but after some reach tests last night the shifters felt far too forward so I have dropped back to a 70mm for the ride today. I suspect after a fit I'll be 80mm finally).
I don't quite like the finish of this FSA stem, but it is a cheaper (3kJPY) stem compared to their shiny ones (>7k JPY), has no red on it and bizarrely, but most importantly, is also their lightest!!
As you can see I had some BBB Carbon bars I picked up for 16k in an end or range sale (down from 40k JPY) a while back. I'll see how they do. Given the reduction in stem, I'm also wondering if a slightly more compact bar would be better. If you remember I have quite small hands (one of the reasons for choosing the Di2 kit was the smaller shifters) and the bars are going to be critical for comfort. Here's my initial shifter fit.
I don't seem to be able to get the bar to shifter transistion entirely flat (shifters are lower)but its a lot better than some bikes I've seen. Any thoughts? Do I need them pointing skyward a bit more? A little cushioning at the point of transistion before taping up? I'll ride today with no tape and a allen key to allow some adjustments on the fly.
Just one more picture of the cable entry to the shifters -
Next up the FD and RD. Easy fit with a band-on (no braze-on) and the red lower sticker on the FD really helped get the distance right to the crank -
There's a little hidden screw that tightens on the band-on to get the derrailleur angle to crank right. I set it to be exactly parallel to the crank, though the instructions show 0 degrees to 0.5 degrees. Anyone tried anything other than 0 on a di?
I'm going to come back to that screw marked low in two mins
Rear D on and attached.
Here's the wheels on too! Note I used a 10 speed rear D-A 7900 set of cogs which meant I had to fit two spacers between the cogs and hub (spacer that came with the wheel and spacer that came with the cogs). Instructions were sparse on this, but later adjustments seem to suggest I got this right
In the end I had to reverse the battery - my routing of the cable interferred with fitting the battery. It does mean I will have to take the wheel off to detach the battery (gate openned for just show in this picture). The cable is a lot neater to. I'll explain in next part how the Garmin candence device will have to fit though....
With the battery fitted the adjustments to FD and RD were a breeze. Infact the RD needed no adjustment other than end stops being brought in to instructions
Okay one problem. The low adjustment screw on the FD doesn't seem to do anything?
I can't get the inside of the FD to be within 1mm of the granny crank. Doesn't seem to affect the changes but worry about a dropped chain. Any thoughts on that low adjustment?
Next up all the final bits (Garmin, full pictures, bar tape, adjustments, chain, water bottle carriers etc)
I needed to get the fork fitted so I measured up the full set of spacers I had bought, another large one on top of the stem, and then marked up with a 3mm spacer removed to get the height down from edge. My approach to cutting it is to use a junior hacksaw; I do a light cut all the way round first (depth of 1-2mm) before doing the full cut. One interesting thing was how much harder it was to cut this stem than the one on my Boardman Pro. I suspect a higher amount of Kevlar/Carbon (over Glass) as well as a stiffer resin at play.
After greasing all the places the bearings touched and putting "fiber grip" on any parts that needed tightening to the carbon, the resultant stem looked like this (note I started with a 110mm stem but after some reach tests last night the shifters felt far too forward so I have dropped back to a 70mm for the ride today. I suspect after a fit I'll be 80mm finally).
I don't quite like the finish of this FSA stem, but it is a cheaper (3kJPY) stem compared to their shiny ones (>7k JPY), has no red on it and bizarrely, but most importantly, is also their lightest!!
As you can see I had some BBB Carbon bars I picked up for 16k in an end or range sale (down from 40k JPY) a while back. I'll see how they do. Given the reduction in stem, I'm also wondering if a slightly more compact bar would be better. If you remember I have quite small hands (one of the reasons for choosing the Di2 kit was the smaller shifters) and the bars are going to be critical for comfort. Here's my initial shifter fit.
I don't seem to be able to get the bar to shifter transistion entirely flat (shifters are lower)but its a lot better than some bikes I've seen. Any thoughts? Do I need them pointing skyward a bit more? A little cushioning at the point of transistion before taping up? I'll ride today with no tape and a allen key to allow some adjustments on the fly.
Just one more picture of the cable entry to the shifters -
Next up the FD and RD. Easy fit with a band-on (no braze-on) and the red lower sticker on the FD really helped get the distance right to the crank -
There's a little hidden screw that tightens on the band-on to get the derrailleur angle to crank right. I set it to be exactly parallel to the crank, though the instructions show 0 degrees to 0.5 degrees. Anyone tried anything other than 0 on a di?
I'm going to come back to that screw marked low in two mins
Rear D on and attached.
Here's the wheels on too! Note I used a 10 speed rear D-A 7900 set of cogs which meant I had to fit two spacers between the cogs and hub (spacer that came with the wheel and spacer that came with the cogs). Instructions were sparse on this, but later adjustments seem to suggest I got this right
In the end I had to reverse the battery - my routing of the cable interferred with fitting the battery. It does mean I will have to take the wheel off to detach the battery (gate openned for just show in this picture). The cable is a lot neater to. I'll explain in next part how the Garmin candence device will have to fit though....
With the battery fitted the adjustments to FD and RD were a breeze. Infact the RD needed no adjustment other than end stops being brought in to instructions
Okay one problem. The low adjustment screw on the FD doesn't seem to do anything?
I can't get the inside of the FD to be within 1mm of the granny crank. Doesn't seem to affect the changes but worry about a dropped chain. Any thoughts on that low adjustment?
Next up all the final bits (Garmin, full pictures, bar tape, adjustments, chain, water bottle carriers etc)