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It seems Titan have packed it up, or at least shut down their client facing website. Shame really, they could deliver full custom at the price Planet X is charging for their Tempest.

Nice bike, great bar angle

Poah

The time has finally come to take the bike out of winter mode and prepare it for proper bikepacking this summer.

Winter mode mainly meant adding mudguards. Also a sneak peak of the Wit Slingers bag set, more bags have since arrived, but i need to set aside some time to take pictures of that.

To make the bike all rowdy and chuckable (please let me know if this tracks) it now has massive knobbly tires and dynamo lighting. I also ambitiously overstretched the short cage road mech with a 11-32 cassette, which somehow actually works

Please be advised that whatever direction you're going in Zeeland, the wind is always going the exact opposite direction

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Many thanks. Surely that fantastic Rolex will be going sooner rather than later!

Thanks! Seems like they're pretty hard to get in the UK like Regal said, I tried mine on in Germany. They have a partner overview on their website that might be of use to you, there are a couple of places around.

To celebrate and commemorate some things, and also because I think it's a fantastic watch.

Yess, that should definitely do the trick

Quite a tricky one today, conceptually, but managed to think up a solution on the commute home, very happy with myself. https://github.com/basbakx/aoc2021/blob/master/day14/script.py

I was so impressed with the folding puzzle yesterday! Beautifully made.

Spent far too much time on today's puzzle, but got there in the end.

Turns out there's a 10 line solution using numpy... I should really have a look at this.

I feel like this is the best approach. Had to get the good old pen and paper out to figure it out.

It took me 15 if statements, but I feel the code is concise enough
https://github.com/basbakx/aoc2021/blob/master/day08/script.py

Will be interesting to see if this puzzle leaves a lot of participants behind. I spent a lot more time on the bingo cards, but conceptually the segment displays are probably a lot harder.

So far I always make sure that when i finish, I have one program that runs once and returns both answers neatly. Since 2 is basically always an extension to 1, you should be able to build on it, instead of redefining and redoing stuff. I think it's good practice to write a complete, self contained, program for each day.

This means I just have one repo with one branch and a folder for each day, containing one input file and one script. Well, so far at least

I ordered a pair of Continental Grand Prix Urban, the name makes them sound like city bike tires, but bicyclerollingresistance makes them sound basically like big puncture resistant gp5000's. They're not quite your preferred 40mm, but heading in that direction, likely more so on wide rims (which hopefully stay intact during installation...).

Let's hope big high performance road tires are getting in vogue.

Have been running these for a while in 36. Great tire, roll great. Had a few punctures initially, but after switching to slightly heavier tubes they haven’t had any problems. I had the “race” version before these, but the “pro” version is miles better.

Nightmare to get on the rim the first time, but fine after that. The 36 measures 38.5 on my 25mm internal rims, maybe of interest.

Have been meaning to try out a pair of Vitorria Terreno Zero, are supposed to be a lot more puncture resistant according to bicyclerollingresistance. They also come in 38c

Update:

1. Ride biek
   Rides fantastic, absolutely over the moon, I hope this bike lasts forever

2. Beauty shots -ish
   I wanted to take it to the forest on a sunny day for this, but it's going to rain and be overcast for the next 6 months so made due with the available light during lunch in the garden.

Thanks! I needed a tapered, qr, post mount fork a while ago, to fit the Cube and an old wheelset, this was really the only option i could find back then.

We basically made some cad models to get the geo right, and sent that along with the required features (wishbone, 44mm heatube, some idea of routing) and they would come back with some questions and required details. Tijmen and I would then do some more cad drawing and come back with answers (bosses at this distance, this size tube there, this clearance there). So there was some hybrid of letting them figure out the design from their experience, Tijmens knowledge and my preferences. For example, I didn't tell them to do the half yoke, but they suggested it from my tire clearance and crank/chainring preferences. From their drawings, we would suggest bigger tubes and different angles if that makes sense? If you were just to send a list of geo and features, they would figure it out fine.

They were happy to discuss intricacies like tube thickness and bends, but I mostly left that up to their experience. The bottom bracket cluster is an example of that. I could't quite decide what i wanted to do; T47 (but really wanted BSA), or external over bracket or something else. I shared the worries with them and they just send me a picture of this routing they did before on some other bike. Which I though was perfect. Would love to take credit for it though.

After fleshing everything out this way, I made the deposit, and they made the technical drawings, we made some more changes based on that, and they redid the drawing, which I approved.

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Excellent idea, that would pad out this thread until at least the third page. @Tijmen please respond.

(Please don't actually do this to me)

Please be assured that every single step of this thread involved many hours, days and weeks of worrying and researching. But I must say I can't complain about how it came together.

Last brake in Europe acquired

Spent another night tinkering. Most exciting task was bleeding the brake, which went surprisingly well. Also redid the cable routing so cables are less likely to tap each other. Various other bits were installed, pretty much finishing the bike off! It felt great in the first testride, can't wait to take it on a proper ride!

Very badly lit late night shot to mark the occasion, good photos due soon!

1. Receive frame
   
2. Check straightness, facing, tolerances, attach seatpost to clamp on.
   
3. Stare lovingly at frame not knowing the perils ahead
   
4. Press headset cups using 3d printed press
   
5. Disassemble rear brake and derailleurs from the Cube
   
6. Install fork, stem, bars on the new bike
   
7. Cable routing, going to try the shop-vac approach
   
8. Assemble derailleurs and brakes
   
9. Get flatmount caliper, possibly new hose
   
10. Bleed rear brake
    
11. Take rest of the Groupset and wheels from the Cube
    
12. Change out the rotors and assemble rest of the bike (bartape and
    such)
    
13. Ride biek
    
14. Beauty shots
    
15. Get a new framebag
    

Frame has arrived! Surprisingly quickly! Really proper job by Titan, couldn't be happier about it. It's all straight, it's all clean, and it just looks beautiful.

Couldn't resist working on the bike for a pretty long time yesterday, which means it's close to rideable

Pressing the headsest was one of the scarier things i've done in my lifetime, but besides taking very long, it went off relatively smoothly. The shop vac approach to route the cables worked like a dream, very much recommended.

The one thing that didn't work out is the rear brake. I want it to be flat mount to be future proof, but use my current post mount calliper with an adapter. Because it's on the chainstay, it won't clear the seatstay by just a couple of millimeters. Filing down the calliper feet could work, but I'd like to keep this relatively proper. This means finding a flat mount calliper that works with my RS685 shifter, of which there are a couple of options, none of which seem are in stock anywhere. So i'll have to sort that out.

Beauty shots pending completion of the bike, messy workshop shots for now.

1. Receive frame
   
2. Check straightness, facing, tolerances, attach seatpost to clamp on.
   
3. Stare lovingly at frame not knowing the perils ahead
   
4. Press headset cups using 3d printed press
   
5. Disassemble rear brake and derailleurs from the Cube
   
6. Install fork, stem, bars on the new bike
   
7. Cable routing, going to try the shop-vac approach
   
8. Assemble derailleurs and brakes
   
9. Get flatmount caliper, possibly new hose
   
10. Bleed rear brake
    
11. Take rest of the Groupset and wheels from the Cube
    
12. Change out the rotors and assemble rest of the bike (bartape and
    such)
    
13. Ride biek
    
14. Beauty shots
    
15. Get a new framebag
    

Also made some renders and a 3d print because i'm a giant nerd like that. And to check clearances maybe?

Tijmen and I had been discussing the geo and features extensively for ages because that's wat friends do. I approached Titan with the ideas and dealt further with them. Tijmen made CAD drawings to make sure all measurements were correct and it all looked good. After a few revisions, Titan made the final technical drawings you see above.

It was a true marvel of German-Dutch-Chinese cooperation of a magnitude we rarely see in our lifetimes.

Thanks everyone!

Bike-discount beating out Belgian customs nicely with the bits and bobs

Featuring these beautiful Campagnolo rotors