Technical solution seems to work well.
Damn, choose a better brand!
tighten bolt & expander expands.
Yay science! To be fair before reading your solution I was going to say just find a thin 2mm spacer or something... Then just angle your hoods down a tiny amount if the height really bothers you!
Any tips for training for consecutive days of heavy climbing? I'm 6'4" and 80kg so not exactly built for the terrain!
Much opportunity to trim off 5kg? Don't know your physicality but a schedule of a few 2 hour fasted rides and a slight tweak your diet (not a huge change) and you can soon trim. Do it over a long enough period and it'll be 'normal'. You have the time for that. You'll find that'll probably help the most, providing you don't lose power. Current FTP? Do you know your usual yearly peaks/lows and what generally influences them? Big volume/big challenges? Stick to the tried and tested if you can, then just push it a bit further.
Just as background, mileage this year is 3750 or so, 220k feet climbing, and the biggest volume is probably 250 miles over three rides in four days, so I've got a reasonable base to start from.
Similar yearly mileage to me, but you've done more elevation so I'm guessing not a commuter (and I would say I've had an easy year). What climbs do you have around and any chance to jump on a train for a jolly out to some 20 minute climbs and then ride home?
As the others have mentioned, sustained power efforts over multiple days. That's easy with AdZ on tap, but make sure your realism setting is cranked right up. Maybe even do repeats of AdZ if an option? I'm guessing it's around an hour climb for you, so do it over a weekend 3 times one day at a good tempo, then 2 or 3 the next to really get a feel of sustained multiple day efforts. Could then throw in an hour or so the next day after work, or even one on the friday too. Repeatable tempo efforts sustaining enough power to keep your cadence up, several days in a row. It'll hurt, fantastic training and really give you an idea what it's like!
Active recovery between these efforts will be your friend too, enough time to sustain similar climbing efforts again and again.
Will certainly have a compact and might be paranoid and go 34 as I've got a rear mech that will handle it. Low cadence isn't ideal as I've got slightly dodgy knees.
Do whatever you can to sit & spin!
@Jonny ///M @Saytan @SoliD or anyone with hydraulic experience... Changed my caliper over, did a full bleed. Filled system with syringe from bottom up. From what I can tell have all the air out, but lever totally depresses with only around 20% of the expected power. I think the pistons are not moving enough but with the system full of oil I can't figure out what else to do?
I had a fubar moment when first fitting it - removed the bleed screw and tried to fill it from there not the bleed nipple, so was getting some air in, but can't think how that would've screwed it up? Totally filled it again from bleed nipple.
Caliper came dry without any oil in it. Any amount of tapping/banging/rotating now isn't producing any air bubbles. Can happily pump 200ml of fluid from bottom into my upper funnel with no air bubbles.
Going to top it up later after riding it today and just hope it solves itself. Also change my pads as using the old and they may be contaminated a bit, but would still expect them to 'grip' the rotor tighter so it's not just that.