What have you done to your bike today?

Took care of the rest of this build. Had to drill and tap the top seat tube water bottle boss because I accidentally filled it with Epoxy. Swapped the futureshock springs to the Firm. New pads and brake bleeds after the last bikepacking trip in the rain. All new stainless bolts for the mounts. Could use zero offset post for my fit. I also had to cut 10mm from the post to get my saddle height. Feels good though.

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Steve Vai said:
Took care of the rest of this build. Had to drill and tap the top seat tube water bottle boss because I accidentally filled it with Epoxy. Swapped the futureshock springs to the Firm. New pads and brake bleeds after the last bikepacking trip in the rain. All new stainless bolts for the mounts. Could use zero offset post for my fit. I also had to cut 10mm from the post to get my saddle height. Feels good though.

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Everything works for me on this except the camo bar tape. Unsolicited suggestion incoming

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Rubbery Handlebar Tape

The Rubbery design has loads of grip and a generous amount of cushioning. At 3.5mm thick, it has a very nice hand feel, wraps easily, and is long - which is nice for today's wide bars.
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Lightened my trail bike by 1.2 lbs by swapping wheel sets with my XC bike. I went from Roval Traverse 2s mounted with an Eliminator and Butcher to Roval Controls on lighter and faster rolling Ground Controls. I’ll swap them back when I take my bike to Creek.

Here’s a pic mid way through the procedure.

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Had to swap discs too since my trail bike has 200mm rotors and the xc has 180s.

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Weight after is 29.1 lbs with pedals. Feels noticeably lighter picking the bike up and I know the GCs are less draggy.

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I know it’s a road bike but after acquiring all the necessary bits between eBay and friendly donations of the derailleurs and a good friend to help swap it for me, the di2 conversion is complete.

Shakedown ride for an hour took some getting used to the different shifting pattern and finding the right paddles to click. I’m too used to my gravel bike which is sram 1x so I’ll have to see how it goes if I want to reconfigure the shifters to mimic that.

But I’ll call today a success and now now more stupid shift cables to break. Hopefully can recover some of my spend by selling the two newer mechanical R8000 shifters I had prev installed over the last year.

Still want to buy the wireless module so I can configure the setup with my phone and have the shift/battery status on my Garmin screen.


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Replaced the Torker’s brakes with a dual-bearing-pivot version from Small Batch BMX. The brake posts were in very poor condition and the close tolerance on the bearing ID required some material removal and polishing. Crocus cloth to the rescue!

There is now zero play in the calipers, the front cable routing is cleaner and has in inline adjuster.

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Rear brake
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Front brake
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Inline adjuster
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Torker and friends
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