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Tom Kunich
Dec 4, 2023, 2:09:58 PM12/4/23
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OK, my intensions now are to sell off the Ridley with its Di2. I will have to fiddle with it more to get it to run in gears quietly. Otherwise it is a good bike though it seems to flex under me in some gears making the crank squeak. I will retain the BMC SCO 01 as a winter bike.
I will build the Serotta Fiere as a Dura Ace 10 speed and see of I can stand to use it. Otherwise I will sell that bike off as well. In general I don't like Shimano but if Campagnolo can't offer commonly used lever parts I will have no other option. The SRAM stuff I looked at didn't seem to work very well. About as well as the Campagnolo Veloce stuff.
I just installed a CF fork into the Fondriest and expect it to handle all hell and gone better than with the rather poor steel fork I put in previously. That bike without the water bottle is 20 lbs. now. I will have to fit the steering tube properly now, but I have everything but the spacers. I will probably have to cut the steering post down a bit.
I am still debating the Tommasini since it appears that the sealed bearing headsets don't work properly in the lower half of the steering tube. But I may be able to find an aluminum washer to space the bearing down a mm. That would fix the problem. I could also buy another caged bearing headset that has slightly more clearance. With that, the bike would be excellent. Presently, the steering is fine while it isn't under a load but when riding, the crown race seems to touch the frame head tube slightly once in awhile and that tiny drag makes the steering drag just the slightest.
I will be receiving the Basso Loto this week and will install the Record 11 speed. The crank will be a Super Record which is substantially lighter than a record unless I can find a Record on one of the other bikes that has a Chorus group on it. The Basso is my forever bike.
Everything else will be sold off. Shops don't seem to be stocking bikes now except for the Trek factory stores but they don't seem to be selling a lot. And I think that they are being undercut pretty substantially by Specialized. Though that may be just that the Specialized stores started stocking the cheaper models earlier.
It took me 12 years after my concussion and loss of memory to know what sort of bikes I liked again so the one's I have will have minor modifications to my liking and the rest will exit the garage and hand me back working space.
Campagnolo had better start thinking before they lose their markets altogether. Spare parts are an important matter. Remember when campy down tube levers had a million parts in them? I wonder if they sold spares then? Of course they were the only show in town and could do anything they liked but I can't tell you how many Campy downtube levers I've come across with missing parts now that Campy doesn't make them anymore.
I will build the Serotta Fiere as a Dura Ace 10 speed and see of I can stand to use it. Otherwise I will sell that bike off as well. In general I don't like Shimano but if Campagnolo can't offer commonly used lever parts I will have no other option. The SRAM stuff I looked at didn't seem to work very well. About as well as the Campagnolo Veloce stuff.
I just installed a CF fork into the Fondriest and expect it to handle all hell and gone better than with the rather poor steel fork I put in previously. That bike without the water bottle is 20 lbs. now. I will have to fit the steering tube properly now, but I have everything but the spacers. I will probably have to cut the steering post down a bit.
I am still debating the Tommasini since it appears that the sealed bearing headsets don't work properly in the lower half of the steering tube. But I may be able to find an aluminum washer to space the bearing down a mm. That would fix the problem. I could also buy another caged bearing headset that has slightly more clearance. With that, the bike would be excellent. Presently, the steering is fine while it isn't under a load but when riding, the crown race seems to touch the frame head tube slightly once in awhile and that tiny drag makes the steering drag just the slightest.
I will be receiving the Basso Loto this week and will install the Record 11 speed. The crank will be a Super Record which is substantially lighter than a record unless I can find a Record on one of the other bikes that has a Chorus group on it. The Basso is my forever bike.
Everything else will be sold off. Shops don't seem to be stocking bikes now except for the Trek factory stores but they don't seem to be selling a lot. And I think that they are being undercut pretty substantially by Specialized. Though that may be just that the Specialized stores started stocking the cheaper models earlier.
It took me 12 years after my concussion and loss of memory to know what sort of bikes I liked again so the one's I have will have minor modifications to my liking and the rest will exit the garage and hand me back working space.
Campagnolo had better start thinking before they lose their markets altogether. Spare parts are an important matter. Remember when campy down tube levers had a million parts in them? I wonder if they sold spares then? Of course they were the only show in town and could do anything they liked but I can't tell you how many Campy downtube levers I've come across with missing parts now that Campy doesn't make them anymore.
Catrike Rider
Dec 4, 2023, 2:24:18 PM12/4/23
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you? I haven't gone that far, yet.
Tom Kunich
Dec 4, 2023, 2:29:49 PM12/4/23
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NFN Smith
Dec 4, 2023, 3:23:50 PM12/4/23
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Tom Kunich wrote:
> Shops don't seem to be stocking bikes now except for the Trek factory
> stores but they don't seem to be selling a lot. And I think that they
> are being undercut pretty substantially by Specialized. Though that
> may be just that the Specialized stores started stocking the cheaper
> models earlier.
My primary LBS is just changing from Specialized to Trek. They told me
> Shops don't seem to be stocking bikes now except for the Trek factory
> stores but they don't seem to be selling a lot. And I think that they
> are being undercut pretty substantially by Specialized. Though that
> may be just that the Specialized stores started stocking the cheaper
> models earlier.
that since the pandemic, they've been having problems getting
Specialized stock.
Smith
AMuzi
Dec 4, 2023, 3:31:13 PM12/4/23
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rankings of various criteria.
You could run 1999~2007 Campagnolo Ergo Ten, perhaps with
the long cage rear changers of that era. Mix-n-match all
component levels (Record, Chorus, Datyona/Centaur. Every
part for the easily serviceable levers is available.
Larger than 30t low cassette sprockets only with
not-Campagnolo wheels, but a better more popular solution to
aging is a not-Campagnolo compact with a smaller front such
as 32x46.
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Andrew Muzi
a...@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971
Catrike Rider
Dec 4, 2023, 3:33:27 PM12/4/23
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 11:29:47 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
Glad that it works for you
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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