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@hippy try moving the lever inwards for better leverage with your index finger only. The grooved end part in the lever is the most powerful point to brake with. Also, maybe experiment with how the brake is angled? When descending you lean back more, and that changes your hand position. So if you get problems descending, rotation upwards could potentially help.

Re Grips, are you wearing gloves? I always do now, full finger but without padding, and I initially had trouble with the grips that were on there. Swapped for some more chunky Oury grips and it made a world of difference.

Ok, bingo!

The Garmin Rally come with a 2mm pedal washer, in case the axle sticks out more than 2mm on the inside (which they do on my Ultegra cranks for example).
The Praxis cranks, similar to my SRAM Rival cranks, also require a thin washer.
Turns out I had both of them in place and I suspect that interface caused the click. Cleaned everything well and proper, greased it, removed the 2mm ones as the Pedals don't stick out very far on the inside, tighten properly and hey presto!

Silent bike is nice bike.

Ehrm. Ultegra 8020 isn't exactly "early" ... I sure won't be getting DI2

I got the ng eco, currently on the gravel bike ... you can put a zip tie around the rubber cover to lock it into place. I think that makes it pretty secure as it cannot clear the rubber clips like that.

They're very new Garmin power meter ones that didn't click on the other bike, but good call. I shall pull them off, clean and grease the threads.

I think it's fair to compare. The expectation that they're gonna be the same isn't though.

In other news: There's a click in the crank / BB / somewhere I just can't get rid of ATM. Happens when I'm standing up in the pedals. Cleaned and reassembled the whole crank set and chain rings and it's still there. Drives me nuts. Maybe time for a new crankset etc.

Fark

Throw the other one away?

Have One-Up also, it's been faultless and you can buy service kits etc easily. But so far all I needed was a shock pump and some silicone shine.

Blue Sid?

Underwoodisaurus

Do you think there would be a benefit in maybe some sessions where you gas yourself through a circuit and then do cognitive stuff straight after like catching tennis balls while standing on a wobble board or something ... Neuroplasticity I think they call that sorta stuff?

The logic might be that FTP etc helps because you're not gassed when you get to the top and drop in, therefore make less mistakes on the way down?

So it's been a while I've ridden this. It's done about 8000k so far. Had it on the trainer lately gathering dust and cobwebs.

It remains largely unchanged. Have pulled the power meter off because I acquired a pair of Garmin pedals which are currently not on there, but which I can put on whenever I am using it in earnest again. Running 30mm Corsa Control tyres now. 32t 105 cassette on the back. New hood covers as the old ones were cut up in my accident two years ago.

Bled the brakes, washed it, some silicone shine and it's looking pretty good again.

One change I am planning to make is epoxy in a steerer plug ... Just for trust issues and because I found that the shimmy occurred when I didn't preload the headset properly.

I frickin love it ... apart from the gearing, which I'd hate ...

Done that ... I rode some 170s and really felt off on them. I am 6ft3 nearly and I guess that's just the way it is for me. Much better with the Sid Ultimate now, so no need to change things

Yeah, I'm running 175 on XL and really do need the torque.

How did you find going back to 100?

With 120 I find myself clearing a lot of rocky climb bits I previously didn't make. The slightly higher front also means I don't strike out on rocks as much. Then of course there's my battered shoulders and hands, they really thank me for it atm

Edit: forgot to say that your bike looks like a proper banger!

Just plain old bicarb? Or did you bake the bicarb first?

Did you use lye?

I was on the fence about selling my Wolverine, but it's kind of come back into focus over the festive 500 ... can deffo cover more ground than on hard tail, while still allowing me to dodge cars

Fark :(

Done. Easy 30k at 6.30am to finish it off. 40 ish degs later today so glad I got it out of the way while I didn't melt my tyres.

70k of lumpy gravel done. 25k to go

Glad you enjoyed the pics @Squaredisk.

I know it's not the same hardman stuff like riding through winter, and this year had been pretty favourable temperature wise because we're in la Nina, but usually this time of the year you get 37+ degrees and an angry ball in the sky, so a walk in the park it is not.
This year we had a few days of consistent 40k winds that made staying upright challenging.
Plus I'm super unfit and haven't ridden 100k rides in a while. Going from 2 small rides a week to riding every day is a steep ramp up, so really feeling it right now.