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Random cold day, 0-3c on this mornings ride, only the first month of Autumn FFS!

Full winter gear, jacket, winter bibs, shoe covers, hat, the lot.

My legs just didn't work coming back to town, quads and knees were hurting and feeling hard but not much power coming out of them!
 
Well. Was looking at the canyon endurance cf page and her indoors said "oh that looks nice", decent price for the ultegra setup. Not quite what I was after I suppose but as a compromise between a frame and new bike (the bike I kinda wanted being an R5) goes it's pretty good. Can sell the ultegra off the old bike, keep my aero wheels, sell my ultegra wheels (or swap for the mavics on the canyon) and put towards some zipps ;).
 
platypus said:
Well. Was looking at the canyon endurance cf page and her indoors said "oh that looks nice", decent price for the ultegra setup. Not quite what I was after I suppose but as a compromise between a frame and new bike (the bike I kinda wanted being an R5) goes it's pretty good. Can sell the ultegra off the old bike, keep my aero wheels, sell my ultegra wheels (or swap for the mavics on the canyon) and put towards some zipps ;).
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I'm taking mine out for the first real run out today , I'l let you know what I think if you are interested :)
 
platypus said:
Well. Was looking at the canyon endurance cf page and her indoors said "oh that looks nice", decent price for the ultegra setup. Not quite what I was after I suppose but as a compromise between a frame and new bike (the bike I kinda wanted being an R5) goes it's pretty good. Can sell the ultegra off the old bike, keep my aero wheels, sell my ultegra wheels (or swap for the mavics on the canyon) and put towards some zipps ;).
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Not the Inflite? :p
 
Final bike bits ordered.

Total cost: £1429.44

Spec:

Carbon CX frame, discs, mudguard mounts (this)
Dodgy Chinese carbon wheels - 50mm rim, 25mm width, novatec disc hubs
Shimano hydraulic disc brakes (RS685)
Ultegra 6800 everything, including:
- 50/34 172.mm cranks
- 11-28 rear cassette
Aishima Ai2 rotors
SKS Chromoplastic mudguards (most pro part)

For now I'm sticking to my current super heavy pedals but I'll be ordering some shiny Xpedo M-Force 8 Ti pedals (here) next month when I'm not crying from the bike costs so much.
 
platypus said:
Well. Was looking at the canyon endurance cf page and her indoors said "oh that looks nice", decent price for the ultegra setup. Not quite what I was after I suppose but as a compromise between a frame and new bike (the bike I kinda wanted being an R5) goes it's pretty good. Can sell the ultegra off the old bike, keep my aero wheels, sell my ultegra wheels (or swap for the mavics on the canyon) and put towards some zipps ;).
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Saw on Twitter Cervelo are doing a more 'budget' option... R5 with Ultegra.
 
Had words with a lady driving a BMW last night. She decided it was safe and appropriate to overtake me on a narrow road, coming downhill, round a bend with on-coming traffic. She drove off, but I managed to catch up as she was reversing into her drive.

I was very calm, and simply said "Can you please be a little more patient in future".
Her response: "Well you shouldn't have been doing 30mph"

I tried pointing out that the speed limit was 30, so if she overtook me she must have broken the speed limit. She tried to imply that I was 'racing' her car, I tried explaining the bikes tend to speed up whilst traveling downhill, but at the point she shouted for her husband, and I clearly wasn't going to get my point across. So I told her to be more careful in future, and rode off.

I probably should have just left it, as nobody was hurt, but I figured the next guy might no be so lucky. I seem to be attracting the bad drivers lately!
 
Just been out and weighed by bikes with a luggage scale

Canyon - 9.5kg with guards, cages and various accessories like light brackets.
Cervelo - 8.3kg with the same

My Scott was 7.4kg at it's lightest.

I can't really tell the difference between them when going up hills.
 
Vonhelmet said:
Way too windy to go out tonight. I'm going to go out tomorrow night instead, I think, unless Saturday morning is looking good. Sadly Saturday looks dire.

This year has got off to an absolutely terrible start weather wise.
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I thought it was ok really, we've not had any real snow just cold temperatures. Although the winds have been strong recently we've not had much of them or tons of rain/really long periods of rain/cold!

Might be my positive attitude coming through ;)

Jonny ///M said:
The diagnostic thing can error check with Di2. It just runs through each button click working as it should and tests the junction box.

The standard charger can be plugged into the E-tube software for button configuration if you wanted your left shifter to do the rear gears; wanted the buttons to be reversed on the shifter; what the sprinter switches control and enabling multishift/the speed of it. All the of the manual trim adjustments can be done on the software level too.

Firmware updates can be done using the charger too on the modern internal battery/EW90 junction system. External battery one would most likely need the PC1E tool as there isn't any way to connect it to a laptop(the EW90 junction box has a proprietary usb port thing)
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Ahh sweet, I hadn't really appreciated that the whole configuration of the buttons gear changing could be configured like that with Di2! :eek:

James07 said:
Ordered some pads last night, Swissstop greens :D

Little unsure how to change them until I see them as my shoes don't have grub screws..

Had to stop reading this as I started to get angry.
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I think any of the replacement well branded/known pads would be a good upgrade on the default pads, I went Koolstop Salmons for the wet weather/winter as I knew what to expect after changing them on my old bike. If your pads look like these you won't be able to change the cartridges.

If you end up having to buy blocks too (ie you can't get the pads out of your inserts) there are many different options:
I've got a set of the lifeline carbon's on my old ride, they were expensive but have been good and I will keep them for future use when I sell the bike. You'd have to doublecheck all I linked would be compatible with your tektro calipers but they should be... There are cheaper options but you would then have to make sure you got the right pads in future...

sHo0sH said:
Has anyone noticed that Rapha are opening an outlet store for end of line and old season stock?
Shame its just outside of Bristol!
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Will they still be London prices? ;)

Winds are loads better today than forecast but it's still not warmed up much (overcast here). Drove to work today because the group ride for tomorrow morning looks like one I can manage (not loads of climbing). I'm half thinking of going along if the winds are not too bad - as I'm not a good group rider yet (always off the back!) high winds will totally ruin me trying to stay in touch with their 17.5mph average...! :rolleyes:;)
 
clicking returned in my stupid gossamer cross crank for the third time :@

Time to take it apart clean and regrease that crap rinse and repeat every few hundred miles.

god damn annoying since It's been torqued to spec every time but at least it only takes a few minutes I guess.

just one self extracting bolt
 
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