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So after my sram Rival 1 derailleur died on my curve (excess of winter salt, they really go crazy with it here in Switzerland!) I thought I'd take the time to do something I've been pondering for a while which is to switch the groupset to electronic 2x. My reason being that whilst I'm a big fan of 1x there are a lot more hills here and so I notice the gaps between gears more and find myself running out of range at both ends of the 11-42 cassette. As for the electronic part as someone who frequently breaks down their bikes for travel I think it will make my life easier and otherwise why the hell not now I finally have a paying job!
Groupset of choice is Shimano GRX (mostly because I hate Sram's FD shifting) but with a lighter aftermarket crank, hopefully Easton EC90 Sl with the 46-30 chainrings. I want to do an internal routing job but the frame has no cable entry ports. I thought about using a headset solution like the Ritchey Logic-E but it seems like a lot of work. So instead I dropped the frame off at a local framebuilder this week to have some holes drilled.
He'll be adding a reinforced hole at the top of the downtube, expanding a drainage hole in the bottom bracket shell for the RD cable, adding a hole in the seatube for FD cable and modifying the cable stop for the rear brake hose which has always pissed me off. Obviously this will mess up the paint so I'll be getting a re-paint. At the same time I'll be having my Silca frame pump painted to match.
Given that I'm super indecisive with paint colours I'm looking for recommendations, at the moment I'm torn between a dark metallic grey/charcoal or something in the olive green/grey spectrum? The painter works with RAL colours so if anyone has suggested codes or examples let me know!