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Wow at the weirdness on the black Merckx - Delta brakes and EPS with no Ergos has to be a totally unique combo.

Campy took a while to agree with me that a rear dual pivot is superfluous... I've never run a rear DP. Shame Shimano never realised what a nice touch this is. While back, I bought a pair of 7400 single pivots, and cut down the front spindle so I had two rears (trashed my M5 thread die on that steel). One of em paired with a 7700 front, rocking the 7400 QR from the other brake, the other sporting the 7700 QR, paired with a 9000 front. Been toying with the notion of using some dark tint film offcuts to ape the 9000 ano...

Some fine work there. This one definitely a standout

Shame about the clamp bolt location though.

... Hmm, indexing adjustment on the go via tweaking the noodle.

tweaking the noodle

Possible euphemism or album name

Lime sherbet with red bits is a lol, particularly the one blue cable and one orange cable.

That last one, well, I figure if you're gonna buy a dumb heavy single speed with boat anchor wheels, that one looks pretty cool next to most of em

Just finished reading through the thread, noticed somebody linked the locking spanner on eBay a month ago. It was mentioned they make cassette tools way less fiddly, basically making the poofight on the right functionally identical to the sweetness on the left.

My cassette tool is a Lezyne thing that's a combo with a BB cup tool, think I've got another similar thing that's a combo of a couple of other tools, and the locking shifter (that's what us colonial types call an adjustable wrench) is a game changer; turns two separate tools into one.

Where has this bastard lovechild of a shifter and vise grip been all my life? And why is there only one brand and size?

Assimilating other tools like the Borg is just its everyday trick, but once in a while, being a vise grip with parallel jaws is just gob-smackingly awesome.

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Got some NOS 600 pedals a few years ago, bearings needed adjustment. Chromed hex was only 2mm wide and tight as hell. Couldn't imagine cracking the locknuts without scarring them, except I had this bad boy.

Me, I'd just use a 1" threadless fork. Got a couple, including an Easton Aero that's the farken tits.

This would be the place to pimp this: https://www.innicycle.com/

Bloke who posts on BikeForums came up with this super sweet threaded to threadless adapter, so a bike with a threaded fork can look just like a threadless one. You can ditch that flexy old quill stem, keep the original fork, and not ruin the whole exercise by tainting your bike with one of those fugly quill adapters.

This thread has upped its game.

Holy crap, best staging ever.

Pretty fricken hot bike too

Again with the boring black.

Given how many folks expressed a wish for less gobshite and more engineering content, I'm surprised if took until page 16 for Peak Torque to rate a mention.

I love how wild that Corima front is, but even more, how the rear makes it look totally sane.

Looks like total asplode material... Wonder how it holds up?

The keyboard mashing on the Minger here stopped me in my tracks

Mad props for the Clarke & Dawe.

Biggest of ups for making it one of my all-time faves 😃

Yeah, of course it does. The top pulley reduces the angle by 1/12th, and the bottom reduces it by 3/14ths. I think - I might be a bit too stoned to be sure.

Bigger pulleys, less angle. There's more wrap than you'd get with a longer cage like the upgrade kits, but I'm pretty sure that counts for jack shit, it's just the articulation angle that matters.

BTW, these pulleys I bought off eBay specifically to jam in my Red derailer, which took them with no modification. Different story with the Dura-Ace number, had to cut off one pin and go more than halfway through the other one.

12/14t shoehorned into standard 9070 cage

You've gotta know this one...

Eddy Merckx Lotus

Whoah, anyone recognise the brake?

And yet your post of your own bike is still here.

Okay folks, what makes more sense? Delete the pic, so nobody in future sees the subject of discussion, or leave it up and everyone but captain wank here gets on with their lives?

Doesn’t make it pron.

Makes it not 'such a dull' bike, by the measure of anyone who isn't a one-eyed retrogrouch.

Reader’s Wives don’t belong here. Read the rules.

You saw me get told just above, honky. You're plainly handling it, right in the open.

1. Blaming Millennials for shit doesn't pass the merest scrutiny by anyone with a clue about anything

2. A circle-jerking arsehole overplaying it doesn't fit under the heading of self-aggrandising fuckwittery, I'm sure

3. The 'such a dull' bike may be a Giant, but it's a bit flash for an old one, nicer in many ways than the new ones, and that was before I hid Di2 in it and splashed 9000 over it... you've quite obviously got yourself up yourself, and getting carried away for all to see.

Price matters, sure. But sometimes if you spend more up front, you save in the long run.

I've been using segmented housing of various brands for a few years, and besides saving a bit of weight and adding bling, it turns out way cheaper in the long run because you just buy more liner sleeve and reuse the segments indefinitely.

Don't go for Alligator iLink, it's a bit nasty - my favourite so far is Jagwire Elite Link. Although I'm interested to try and find some thinner-walled liner and see how Nokon Slim goes as brake housing...

Maybe I got a bad batch, but my silver Nokon segments weren't uniformly anodised; they were a variety of shades. And the Jagwire stuff I got wasn't pure red, it was slightly purple, which was a bit bloody annoying.

Whoops, that's a faux pas alright >_>

Go on, let me have it then. But at least fill me in on what's missing from the OP