So I rode outside! First time since October!
First things, pump tyres up. Valve core winds out of the tube... fix that. Find Garmin, powertap batteries appear to be flat, oh well.
First pedal strokes, wow how fast is this bike, it’s so light and moves around so much more than on the trainer.
But it’s so windy some terrible road surfaces too. How good are separated bike lanes, then they finish after 400m and you can’t get back on the main road easily!
Just over 60k in 2 hours, 30kmh average smack on. My calf muscles feel like they got a proper workout, maybe I use them more on the road compared to the turbo.
And I have a noisy cleat, which gets annoying rather quickly, and then another noise appeared after 50km which I think could be the BB or chain.
You have the merino liners right?
No im going to invest in some sort of liner. But need to find something as minimal as possible to ensure I don't cut off my circulation at the wrists
I've a pair of DhB liners which are fair.
They help a bit but when it's that cold...
I had these until i dropped one... Silk type right?
Shame about TV brand, just as I dragged up that picture from twitter/insta of Cav for the fan mounting bracket I'd previously looked at. I then did a doubletake and realised the TV brands & stands looked very similar (and the fans) to those at Rapha. Happy coincidence, or maybe they are the same and there's some sponsorship going on. Rapha & UK Pro team riders would be some clever product placement...
Haha I was just thinking how tidy they looked and how solid the stands where so (wrongly) figured they where made for the TV's!Any similarly black bezeled TV would be fine unless you want to be a fanboy
Nice list of complaints, you're settling back into it fine!So I rode outside! <snip>
That's one thing I love about my Diverge - no roads bother it and the occasional dump into a pot hole or foray onto gravel it just takes in it's stride. Also one of the reasons my mates don't let me choose routes as I'll always have some random shortcut in there down a road I don't know but have spotted when mapping. Usually resulting in roads like these! (while they're riding their race frames and small tyres!)TBH I'm seriously considering a nicer gravel bike as my summer machine because you can just plot a route by clicking away at random and if some of that turns out to be dirt track or trashed lanes then game on
If they're the same liners I'm thinking of then really REALLY size down on them. I bought Medium and they where huge, swapped for Small and still far too big. XS where out of stock so just kept them. I'm a Medium in most gloves, inc other DHB's.I've a pair of DhB liners which are fair.
They help a bit but when it's that cold...
Great pics thanks, gives a great view of a solid setup.
Run with Alienware:
And zip-tied. Didn't stand directly in front but could tell it was shifting a fair bit of air and quite quiet too. Two arriving in the next week or so.
I was considering a Tripod but I moved some things around in the garage and made a workbench out of double thickness 18mm MDF and some £30 Saw-horses instead A tidy dungeon is still a dungeon
Hi all, quick question about disc brake calipers.
My bike is a BMC GF02 with 160mm Post mount fixings front and rear; at the moment I have TRP Spyres direct fixed on.
If I go hydro and change to flat mount I guess I'll need an adapter of some sort? Id like to keep it 160mm if I can so I dont have to get new rotors. Anyone know the part that I need?
If I go hydro and change to flat mount I guess I'll need an adapter of some sort?
I don't believe such adaptors exist - only the other way round. You'd be best off getting a post-mount set like the ST-RS685, but they're quite costly new. Might actually be worth buying a second hand bike with hydraulics and swapping the brakeset off!
I don't think the two systems are compatible in that way. Think you'll need to stay with post mount calipers.
You can get adapters to fit post calipers to flat frames but not the reverse. Because the flat mount is 'closer' to the frame you can't really adapt to it.
Yeah pretty much, although those are ultegra/DA level parts and cheaper options may be available if you want them
Yup that'll do it. You don't save anything by buying parts separately and price you see on Merlin is fantastic anyway! Most other places the levers alone are a similar price.Cheers guys. Just taken a look at Merlin cycles website and they list the following:
STI Levers/Disc Brakeset: 1 x Shimano ST-RS685 Hydraulic Disc Brake STI's & BR-RS785 Disc Brakes (Post Mount)
So I guess thats what I need if I want to go hydro.
When I thought one of my RS-785 calipers was sticking they where such crazy price to buy individually (they've dropped now to around £35/40) that I actually started to look at using MTB calipers, specifically the Saint and going 4 caliper. Everything I read indicated it should work, the only unknown was the reservoir volume on the RS685 maybe not being enough. I read of guys with broken RS785's swapping them for the Deore calipers successfully. Unsure if it was the M6000 or M446. There was even hints about Shimano using the same ceramic pistons on them so if you cracked one you could swap one over.Yeah pretty much, although those are ultegra/DA level parts and cheaper options may be available if you want them
Agreed, coming from 5800 the 685's felt bigger but only marginally with the same shape and a similar 'feel'. The 505 felt flimsy in comparison almost like they where thinner than the 5800's but I think that was to the reservoir making the upper hood feel bigger so the shape is different.Yeah get the 685s! I hate the shape of the 505 and it doesn't feel as nice IMO.