Pics of my new bike... in spoilers because size yo.
Subtle, huh? It's the mango point ar frameset in "nuclear green". Aluminium, mudguards and rack mounts, big big tyre clearances.
Dem welds. The bottom bracket is much gnarlier, but that's the way it goes. Internal cabling for the gears, which was a bit of a faff. I ended up taping a super duper cadence magnet to a cooking skewer and fishing around up the end of the downtube to get one of the cables out.
Deda Zero finishing kit looks pretty badass. Lizardskins dsp tape feels good and was a doddle to apply as it was more than long enough and the endy sticky bits were actually properly sticky for once. Hopefully it rides well. SRAM Apex groupset on there, so only ten speed but should be fine. I'll need to get used to the different shifters!
Apex gears - 50/34 up front and 11-32 at the rear which will be interesting for climbing as I'm used to a 28 on my other bikes. The bottom bracket was a bit weird to fit as the instructions were unclear about whether to use spacers, but I got there. I don't hear great things about gxp so I'm hoping it holds up, otherwise I'll have to replace it with a token bb or something.
TRP Spyre cable actuated disc brakes. Unfortunately I got the wrong size discs! I have 14cm ones but the posts on the frame are for 16cm ones, so the calipers only bite the very edge of the rotor. I've ordered some 16cm ones which should get to me mid week sometime. Once they're fitted I'll give it a test ride.
Subtle, huh? It's the mango point ar frameset in "nuclear green". Aluminium, mudguards and rack mounts, big big tyre clearances.
Dem welds. The bottom bracket is much gnarlier, but that's the way it goes. Internal cabling for the gears, which was a bit of a faff. I ended up taping a super duper cadence magnet to a cooking skewer and fishing around up the end of the downtube to get one of the cables out.
Deda Zero finishing kit looks pretty badass. Lizardskins dsp tape feels good and was a doddle to apply as it was more than long enough and the endy sticky bits were actually properly sticky for once. Hopefully it rides well. SRAM Apex groupset on there, so only ten speed but should be fine. I'll need to get used to the different shifters!
Apex gears - 50/34 up front and 11-32 at the rear which will be interesting for climbing as I'm used to a 28 on my other bikes. The bottom bracket was a bit weird to fit as the instructions were unclear about whether to use spacers, but I got there. I don't hear great things about gxp so I'm hoping it holds up, otherwise I'll have to replace it with a token bb or something.
TRP Spyre cable actuated disc brakes. Unfortunately I got the wrong size discs! I have 14cm ones but the posts on the frame are for 16cm ones, so the calipers only bite the very edge of the rotor. I've ordered some 16cm ones which should get to me mid week sometime. Once they're fitted I'll give it a test ride.