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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

Pretty hard to find a weight weenie saddle that has that nice old school shape I like; I'm not cashed up enough for a custom Berk. Oh, and the Spyder softens that harsh ISP ride better than any other unpadded saddle by a big margin.

... The bike is '06, I'm '74.

Oh yeah, it weighs 6.28 with lights and a bidon cage.

Fifteen is too young to be in porn?

All holes are in sensible places. They range from 1.8 to 2.5mm. There's pics and vid in the Bikeforums thread.

That pic is showing the charging plug and jack harvested from the BCR2 and the A-junction, separating the loom between the frame and fork, hotglued into place behind the head tube. There's no hole drilled there.

ETA: huh, you grabbed that pic from the build thread, so you saw the process. Why'd you illustrate your comment with that pic?

Check it: https://www.bikeforums.net/bicycle-mechanics/1230520-9150-controlling-9070-a.html