lemme just say that cat 6 50 year olds are the worst. No, putting your Garmin on your stem instead of out front is not going to mess up your aero enough to have any effect, in fact the opposite is true.
[quote=yo this jawn is bad as shit yo]Stash that jawn in the steerer?
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I’d have to route it out the top through holes in the top cap and expander wedge, but that’s doable
The battery can plug into any of the junction boxes, right?
3 port A junction gets shifters and wite that goes to B junction. Battery, dangler and gorilla plug into B junction.
That’s your typical install. If running 1 shifter, I believe you can plug the battery into the unused port in A junction but I’d have to test it out.
I could also get a 5-port A junction
This definitely fit that situation. I have ‘got good tires for the first time and feel the need to impose that on everyone’ right now, so that plays a part.
Correct.
got to play with Hydro E Tap R5d today, and then an R9170 SLR01d came in. The BMC is sweet as, but oof they’re $17k (CAD)
Dammmnnnn!
That BMC costs as much as an entry level toyota
Makes sense it’s Ferrari red
Everything is sharp and deadly as fuck except the stem/headtube. That looks bad.
yeah, as usual it looks like crap with 30mm of spacers.
(this goes for the BMC and the Cervelo…)
But, the folks with this kinda money rarely have aggressive bike setups 
In the context of all the endurance geo I see on the road, these don’t look like crap.
They look fine to me!
yeah i am not mad at either of those
Took my bike into a new shop this weekend to get my brake fixed and they had 3 people working the front plus the owner and one mechanic working. The mechanic was busy helping somebody with helmets (why?) so the owner took my bike and wrote up the work order.
It was a pretty straight forward thing - new front brake pads and a fender adjustment. He told me it was going to be $40 for the fender adjustment and that they might need to reinstall them. I said “nope, don’t touch them. I can do it for that price.” Mechanic calls me 30 minutes later and says “All done. New brakes, and I adjusted your fender because it was rubbing. And you need a new tire because there’s a bulge. You want me to try and warranty it?”
But here’s the weird thing- when I went in to pick up my bike, the people at the front went and got my bike, had me pay, and tried to send me out the door. I don’t think they knew shit about bikes either. I guess I’m used to shops where you interface with the mechanics directly and can ask them about what they did to your bike. The guy ended up coming to the front and chatting with me about it anyway, but it didn’t seem like that was standard for the shop. Don’t think I’ll be going back there unless it’s an emergency fix.
There’s always miscommunication between the mechanics and whoever is working the floor. And often mechanics don’t write detailed notes about what they did, or said they were going to do. I’m also thinking that they may have gotten a few people to work this weekend who aren’t their regular employees. Normal shops get overwhelmed on beautiful weekends and have to bring extra folks in. There’s a chance they the salespeople really didn’t know about bikes, but that’s probably not normal for the shop.
As for the owner, in my experience, unless you’re a personal friend of theirs, they’re going to charge you the maximum possible price for every single thing they can. The mechanic doesn’t see a difference in their check if they give away free labor. But the owner thinks of it as taking money from their pocket.
It makes sense, but $40 for an adjustment just seems insane to me.
In my experience shop labor rates are listed, as in this case, per item or job to be done instead of just an hourly rate. So in this case the owner has probably quoted $20 before and it ended up being some bullshit fender hack job that took a wrench 3 hours to do. Now he overshoots at $40 and when it ends up being some easy peasy job he might bump it down to $20 and then you feel like you got a deal in the end.
^^^this
When I last did did your “fender massage” at BABR I really should’ve charged you at least this much (also forgot to charge for the mudflap!)
For wrench jobs across all disciplines, piecework rates are set relative to an “shop rate” (I think BABR’s is $90/hr), but the bike industry is uniquely terrible at actually recovering it. A lot of stuff ends up costing half to a third of what it “should” but there’s some stuff like fenders or tubeless or internal wiring that can spiral deep into the negative.
Your fake-hammered VO fenders are their worst model, and too narrow on top of that, next time you have trouble you should probably just tear them off
Get real Honjos, or PB ALX Medium, or Portland Fender Company, or even better wait for PDW’s 650b model