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The bearings are pretty easy to replace - 2 x 6803 2RS bearings I think you need if it's the 17mm axle - the circlip can be a pain to get out & replace (a good sharp pick should prize it out) but it's doable & will only cost ~£8 for a couple of bearings
The Campagnolo freehub is alloy & some boiling water poured over the shell swells it enough to push the bearings out/in by hand - never done it with the Shimano version but might make things easier than simply lamping it with a big mallet
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Looks like a Novatec hub, had some similar in the past - on Evans website the spec sheet for the 2017 model lists "Rear Hub Novatec D772SB, 4 sealed bearings" so you might be in luck re. adaptors - the end caps may just pull off, can't quite remember if they unscrew or not.
For Novatec spares i've used BDOP in Taiwan a few times - https://www.bdopcycling.com/Wheel%20Parts-ALLOY%20THRU%20AXLES.asp
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Looking for a pair of mudguards for new commuter build, too cheap to throw £50-£100 at some new ones, anyone any spare decent mudguards lying around gathering dust & not rain? Would need posted as i'm Glasgow based. Also, moon on a stick.
Cheers!
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Have just started one in current projects - not much excitement yet i'm afraid unless you want to see the grubby insides of some TRP Spyres i've just rebuilt! Have most of a 5800 groupset & Praxis Alba chainset I picked up pretty cheap waiting to go on - been on the look out for some unoffensive mudguards that won't break the bank, however the wheels appear to have been trued by someone with a wonky truing stand at some point as they're both dished ~3mm off centre - so that's something else on the to-do list
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Always fancied the original 2014 Equilibrium Disc with the steel fork - so when a pretty much mint one popped up recently I took the plunge, build plan was going to be as cheap as possible to get rolling but I decided to slow down & do it right (ish) first time instead of constantly changing parts.
Will be used in the West of Scotland year round so frame internals got a blast with some spray wax stuff from Toolstation for £3.50, nozzle is compatible with the straws from WD40 etc so you can get it right into the breather holes, will be better than nothing at least - balls to paying £20 for framesaver!
A mate sorted me out with some old (to him, not me...) Aksiums with 140mm rotors so they'll do nicely on the wheel front, picked up some Thomson bits & had some Deda RHM02 bars spare so they're going on too - would have preferred a polished black finish but I wont lose sleep over it. I probably will though.
Next addition will be a pair of Spyre SLC, because shiny, once i've put them back together - they all tend to come pretty dry from the factory so it's worth an hour of fannying about to strip & grease them up good every now & again as once the tiny thrust bearing race starts to rust up it's a pain to get smooth again - the 3 bearings on the cam assembly are apparently 3mm so these can be replaced if need be but dunno how easy the other one would be to replace...
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New project gaining speed - might even start a thread!
Essentially gonna be 5800 / Praxis cranks / Spyre SLCs / Thomson finishing kit & bigger tyres than those on it just now
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Yeah, almost like the old 70's amber-wall jobs once they get a bit of road-filth ingrained, guaranteed to turn a once meek bike rowdy (am I doing this right @Tijmen)
That Volare has become my most-ridden bike, love it - one day i'll nab a stainless disc version for peanuts on ebay but until then it'll keep getting dragged out ahead of anything else
J
Cheers - got 5800 gears & shifters with a Praxis chainset, test fitted everything at the weekend & should all work out quite nicely I think - would have had it finished but ran into a few niggles...
Had ordered the only 5800 front mech adapter I could see to fit the 28.6 seat tube but when it arrived it was for a 31.8 mech & mine is 34.9... found a 34.9>31.8 adapter in a box of spares which was pretty chunky so I tried it with the extra reducer to see how it felt, seems fine so on it went - not the prettiest solution but if it works i'll overlook it for the sake of getting it on the road.
The matt finish bars were annoying me before I even started putting it together so I unearthed some polished finish Deda rhm01 from the loft from an old build & set about taking the scratched logos off with acetone - came up pretty fresh looking so on those went too.
The spoke clearance with the Spyres / 140mm centrelock rotors was a bit iffy - the actuation arm on the brakes was hitting the spokes with the caliper centred over the disc & the inner pad was rubbing if I moved the caliper out enough to clear the spokes - so quick search online & a rummage in the magic spares box unearthed what looked like a couple of old freehub (possibly) spacers, the hard plastic type - one around 1.5mm and the other probably about 0.5mm (absolutely no idea where / what they came from) they slipped over perfectly with a bit of persuasion, the bigger one centred the caliper perfectly over the disc but the lockring was catching the fork leg very slightly (plus i didn't really want anything that would push the rotor too far across the splines either...) so I went for the slimmer one & wound the outboard pad across slightly to make the pad gap even. Tightened everything up & all seems well - another look online suggests Bontrager make a 1mm spacer for this very purpose, might pick one up in future but for now this seems like a solution.
This is with no spacers involved - there's really not much of a gap between the lockring & the fork, although this shitty phone-camera angle makes it look worse than it is
Slow progress - but chipping away at it, pretty pleased so far but the fork curve combined with the weird angle of the 140mm front rotor mount makes it look like the front end has melted, will see how the 140mm rotor is - a 160mm might give me slightly better braking, more clearance and less ugly, but we'll see how it pans out...