hold the phone-
it just clicked in my head that an Angleset could steepen the hta on a frame. So all these gravel frames with lots of reach but a really shitty hta could be transformed into a road bike with a like 73 hta?
This isn’t exactly what I want, but it seems like it opens up some space for cool projects.
Also very on brand for me to be the only person to use one of thse things to give a bike steeper angles.
I saw a YouTube video where a dude installed an angleset on a Kona ESD (63* HTA) both ways to compare 61*, 63*, and 65* on the same bike.
Bro adding a headset to a bike is not a project
if you’re not good at headsets it sure as hell is
more seriously: I need astounding amounts of reach + favorable sta. Most gravel frames are long as hell, but have 70-72hta, which feels not awesome on the road.
If I wanted to build a whole new bike around a cheap frame, I could probably get the thing closer to what I’d want to ride with an angleset. I’d previously only really thought of them as for making your slightly outdated mtb more modern/progressive.
73* is also the sweet spot for low trail forking, yes?
What’s a favorable STA for you?
my basic geometry for a road bike is 72sta 62cm tt 74hta 210-220hta with a 370a-c. That gives me a lot of room to mess with saddle position and stem length.
edit / addendum: stepp sta kills the fit on a lot of these reachy front end gravel bikes. at my saddle height, a degree of sta difference is like a cm of fore-aft
This guy likes road bikes folks. Geo and fit changes in mm only. If it isn’t 1 degree off 73, it’s wrong.
Anyway, what in the fucking hell, Shimano
Why would they do this? Why would they make the hole a different goddamn size.
I think they did that on the second gen, but I could be wrong. Needs another little adaptor jawn.
Meanwhile, I seemed to have lost the stopper for my funnel now.
And I also managed to snap off threaded bit at the bottom of the park tools mineral kit. So won’t get one of them.
Will I be able to resist rigging something up rather than waiting to get the right tool?
looks like you already spilled mineral oil all over the lever body
so not much benefit in having a tool
just let it spill a bit more
100% did try to attach it with a rubber band to see if it would leak
I mean, yeah, pretty much. You’re just doing lever bleed to get some bubble out, right? Don’t really need the funnel in that case. If you need to push from the caliper, then maybe wait, or just get a bunch of dry towels to soak it up, lol.
That is a better location than the first gen, though. It shortens the reach a bit more.
TRP uses the M6 thread, too.
5’10” x 32” inseam is like a 53/54 right?
In general
More like 54-56
Those are my measurements and frame sizes.
I thought you were like a 59?
