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I've given my bike a quick clean and had a look at the chain and cassette. The chain is way stretched and the cassette has dodgy looking teeth. Time for some replacements. So that's chain, cassette, cables, bar tape and pedals needed for this bike before I can hand it over to my wife for the summer...
 
Didn't have long but went for a really quick ride this afternoon, just 22km, and managed to hit 28 km/h average moving speed which was good, despite having recently returned from France full of cheese and pastry!

Enjoyed the sun but the wind was still considerably present and found it hard work. It also never seemed to be on my back either! Grr!
 
in massive need a full shimano cable kit.. to basically change everything! brakes cables, gear cables, housings etc.. are the such kits available? jagwire looks to be the only one, anyone tried it before?
 
Hit 1000 miles for the month now and almost 350 for the last week.

Did a lovely 100 miler on Sat, great group of people, great weather and great route. The nice weather made us faster I think.
 
Yep, i used a jagwire cable kit when i was building my winter bike last year.
It's so much easier than buying a some lengths of outer and a few inners and doing it all yourself. I always forget ferrules + end caps and things and it ends up taking weeks.
Cable kit was great.
 
First notch on my palmares today with a win in the group C 1km scratch race at the club race afternoon at the velodrome - they all count! :D Only my second go on the track but really enjoying it.
 
Today I went to put on my bib shorts for the first time this year and...I ripped them half way down the middle :(. One too many bacon sandwiches in the off season.

Still wearable in the short term, but can anyone recommend some bib shorts that emphasis good padding rather than a high end brand or design? Ideally ~£50.
 
All this talk of cables... I've just been out for 20 miles spinning in 34x14 or something silly because my rear shifter cable has finally given up. I'd barely got to the end of the road before finding I was stuck in 50x11. I had a play and bodged it into 34x14 and took what I could get. On closer inspection it looks like whoever last replaced the cable (not me!) didn't put a ferrule at the shifter end, so it's been steadily pulling the outer and the housing into the shifter and mashing it up. It's now utterly fudged. I'm not too arsed, as I was about to replace the cables anyway. It's just going to make for some silly spinny rides this week until I get some new cables and fix it, or until my new bike arrives, whichever comes first!
 
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You dont put ferrules on the shifter end.....
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Huh. I did wonder that, but I checked zinn and that said to put a ferrule on each end. I wonder why the cables got so mangled at that end, then.

Sheldon says put a ferrule on each end, but notes that some cable entry points are too small for a ferrule, so I guess it depends on whether a 2300 housing would accept a ferrule.
 
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Never had a bike even from the factory build with a ferrule on the end, never had on mange up at the outer entry point.
 
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