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Wait…why would new handlebars need a brake bleed?!

Finishing touches on the Starling thanks to @Tijmen and @Hulsroy

Sweaty back finally banished for spring / autumn riding.

Amazing. Where is the last photo taken?

Uh oh.

All grey with fidlock buckles please. Seriously, don’t tempt me…

Which kickstand are you using with this? Work well? Looking for something similar for potential dog transportation.

Ride with a friend where you can blame them for holding you up. Until you swap. Then they blame you and it’s all funny. The rest is just making the most of the downhill.

Yikes that’s delightful.

I’m going to have to buy one (or three) of your cages just to see how they interact…

https://drinkbivo.com/

This is what I was referring to you. Easy to clean and won’t fall apart mouthpiece (unlike my now un-usable bottles with shredded lids). Snorkel lets the flow rate be bonkers. But as I said - they don’t sit well in a normal steel cage.

It’s an odd one. It’s almost amazing, it stays in the cage, but loading it is not great. There’s a slightly taper so I don’t think they’d work with your current cage.

Moving the bottle cage request thread from @Oddo thread to here.

I have recently tried bivo bottles. They have have some excellent advantages: stainless so no flavour weirdness, nice to hold, easy to clean and excellent flow. But also some disadvantages: hard to properly close (I keep pouring water on myself) and most critically - they don’t actually sit well in a bottle cage.

It’s probably a bit too niche but the shops that sell them might be curious to be able to recommend a better cage for them.

I’d assume that anyone racing xc has a dropper these days.

Hilariously I also stacked it yesterday thanks to a wet root, entirely down to user error. Though I did try and blame the less chonky rear tyre. You’ve gone for some pretty trail / xc focussed tyres?

It pissed me off initially. I had actually completely forgotten about it until I read your post because being out on the bike has just been that fun (one awful puncture / user error / old tyre shitshow aside).

The paint quality isn’t great. Mine was rubbed off a bit on the drop outs. I complained and they offered to send over some touch up stuff if I remembered correctly/suggested where to buy it as I’m in Canada.

That’s lovely.

I just zip tied on an old inners tube wrapped around. Need to re do it but it does the job. Looking ace so far!

Things I’ve decided a (trusted) shop does for me: anything Headset related that isn’t just tightening a threaded one, installing / shortening hydro hoses, wheel building.

I accidentally found myself in North Vancouver on a rental full sus and it all cascaded from there.

That’s rad!

Nice to see another pink Starling on the forum.

They appear to have not been posting in 5 months - wonder if anyone offline knows them?

Sorry to hear about the illness! Carbon bars is quite the endeavour - with a view to using recyclable carbon?

Now they Bespoke is over, will we see some more updates on those AWOL rear end rebuilds? Or did I miss that already? Or is the Hulsroy empire now churning out bottle cages?

Do it.