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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... -
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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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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.
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yawn I've played knifey-spooney before, you know. Use a tape that has a stiffer or less elastic outer layer than the foam underneath, wrap it tight and you won't get edge curling.
Been going top down for 25+ years, reckon I could even wrap most plain foam tapes tight enough not to curl.