As to the actual functionality, its sublime. Best gear changes I have had and slightly better than when my previous groupset was dialled in to perfection. Hopefully after my first proper ride I will still have the same opinion of it. New hoods are a marked improvement over previous generation dura ace as well.
Great to hear after the hassles you've been through with your mechanical!
Been trying to sell my Ribble Endurance SL Disc frame on eBay and Facebook and I'm down to £500 and it's still not shifting.
Surprised as it's in great condition apart from a small chip. Makes me think Ribble must be really undesirable.
Not sure I want to go much lower as I might as well get a second hand groupset and replace my 20 year old commuter/winter bike with it.
To be honest, at that price I'd be absolutely & seriously considering the winter bike option with it! But I seem to recall Ribble pretty slack about clearance and guard mount points. But their site does mention mount points with usual 32mm tyre clearance but only 25mm with guards. I'd be playing around with some different guards (SKS) to get 28's on there but maybe some googling around first to see what others have been able to achieve rather than totally believing the Ribble site...
Fez has some mechanical groupset parts going spare! Then again so do I lol
not that many people build things up from frames any more.
Yup, totally silly especially with the shortage still on many groupset parts. But I think we're still at the point where the vast majority of people spending money on bikes are 'new' so don't have the history and experience to consider building up. Bike manufacturers themselves don't really help - some moving direct to customer sales, plus the massive inventories of complete 'off the shelf' bikes being what's driving the supply chains. Not LBS themselves building them up to spec, or to demand.
I'm kinda still relying on some price slashes on bare frames this autumn to get a bargain. For me seems a better option than needing to spend £5-6000 for a complete bike (when I've got a set of Di2 hydraulic shifters already, wheels and various other bits with the tools to build it up). If I can get what I want - current thinking is an S-Works Aethos or SL7. Or a second hand 'Pro' version (one below S-Works) but they don't tend to sell them as bare frames. I legitimately can't afford the £10k+ needed to buy a new complete one. If I can't get that I'll be going back to looking at the Giant TCR as a complete bike, just so much bike for the money and a massive difference in price points compared to Specialized. I want front bar aero integration and something 'fast' and stiff while still not an absolute brute to ride. Plus looking at the 'high end' to get something significantly better than my quite upgraded Diverge, else it's really not worth doing.
Found indexing the rear derailleur absolutely fine honestly. Not sure what you mean about it not feeling precise. Can you elaborate a little?
Same here, really easy to tweak my RD and it seems very precise. Although I've got a bit of 'noise' I'd originally put down to things bedding in, tweaked my rear at the weekend to try and solve and can't seem to. So now think it could be some rub actually on the FD as really didn't tweak or do much with that as it sounded & seemed spot on in the stand. I had a slight jam on the weekend moving it from small->big chainring so it could be a little too close and also rubbing a bit in certain gears under load to make it sound like rear indexing...
