hmmm, could you bliphack some of these? I’ve seen Hylexes get buttonized.
Those levers have composite bodies, right? I think you could put the blip on the backside of the lever where it kinks (facing inward so can be poked with your thumb but not by accident) and then run wires to a blipbox tied under the stem.
I have a pair if blips at work. I’ll pull one apart, for science.
Now new and improved and in the right thread
Okay here’s my weird bike build dithering list. I’m mulleting the brakes because I think it would look stupid to bypass the cable stop but I want at least my front brake to be functional.
Campagnolo Potenza–everything but crank
11-32 Campagnolo cassette
Sugino OX901 170 silver 48/32
Velo Orange quill stem with removeable faceplate for 31.8 bars 100 mm
Seatpost – I don’t know what will fit yet but VO or Nitto probably
Brakes: Mini-Motos (polished) on the front and Neo-Retro (polished) on the rear? Because there’s that cable stop thing in the back and I think it would look stupid to bypass it. Plus I don’t really use my rear brake except on gravel or ice.
Headset – Cane Creek or Chris King silver
Compass Maes Parallel 31.8 bars
Onyx Road Campy 130 QT rear hub – silver (clear anodized) 24 h
Onyx Road 100/QR front hub – silver (clear anodized) – 20h radial spokes
Kinlin XR22T silver 20/24 (unless anyone has a different suggestion for a polished silver tubeless rim)
Tires: Compass 35 mm Bon Jon Pass
Pedals: Candy 3
Saddle: Taken care of already x 10
ftfy
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No I have one of those Exposure trash can taillights that works great
Why not a Rene herse crank
I’m sorry I have a question. You sent a frame to paint and then didn’t get it back for a DECADE?
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this is a really good point
Paul brakes would stick out like the sore-est thumb on that
you’re going to be disappointed in Potenza but it’s manageable
absolutely do not buy a campagnolo cassette or freehub, a Shimano 11s matches their indexing better than their own parts and has many nice options
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Are those actually any better than the VO / SunXCD contemporaries?
EDIT: after looking at the photos a bit closer looks like JanCorp™ got rid of fugliness and surplus bolts at the spider
Would probably do a swap of shifter internals of the Potenza shifters to part:
R: EC-RE300
L: EC-RE301
to get Ultra Shift aka dump all the gears with your thumb. This is the part from Chorus 11, you could ball harder going with the Record or Super record 11s parts. Listed in this pdf. Then put Potenza silver brake lever back on to get that shiny silver!
Also would do shimano splined hub for easier and cheaper access to 11s cassettes.
Couldn’t you just swap the brake lever like everyone else used to do to get silver chorus?
If your canti posts are in spec w what Jan writes, get the Rene Herse brakes.
Get the Rene Herse crank as well. You’re already spending so much, go all out then.
how is there not a guy on vsalad who just makes a living doing this swap for salonaestheticians?
I’ve kind of left my bike fop chariot days behind me so going through all the effort of customizing levers etc is out of scope.
I’m hopefully going to ride this just as much as my other bikes. So I’m more concerned with having a fully functional bike that I don’t have to fuck around with. If some day I want to restore this and put the correct early 70s components on it, it is easy enough to do.
I’ve had numerous bad experiences with cantis, and I’ve had a Rene Herse crank/rings that shifted like ass shit. It was first generation, though–did Heine do something to make these less horrible?
Also I haven’t tried Potenza but the reviews I’ve read say that it is pretty much as good as Ultegra, which is good enough for me. Since my other bikes are electronic I’m used to multiple clicks. It can’t be that horrible if Speedvagen was using it, right?
Remember folx that although I know how to operate on a bike, I don’t have anywhere near the experience of most of you, so trivial issues that take you a couple minutes takes me a hell of a lot longer, a book, and a lot of swearing to do right. So I prefer to minimize fucking about, like with cantis or poor shifting.
If this is for srs then dont mix and match stuff and buy a groupset and be done with it.
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Yes the new matched chainrings actually work now, better than the other nerd cranks
I really like mini-Vs but they require regular adjustment for padwear especially with Campy’s cable pull being the lowest in the biz. Paul brakes add several more layers of fiddling.
If you want the easiest brake solution, get Shimano CX-70 and follow the straightforward multiple-choice measurement-based setup instructions
But the Herse cantis are a pretty great idea, reduced complexity and perfect style match
spend your modernity on the shakes/gorillas, the brakes/cranks/cockpit will be a ton of silver
Yep.
I bought the frame when I was in London circa 2007, just when I was getting into serious cycling. It was a sad rattlecanned mess. I dropped it off at this place called Argos for a repaint. They had it for a couple years, I finally got sick of the excuses and I had them send it to Baylis. So that must’ve been around 2009. Then it disappeared despite every 6 month reminders until joe bell discovered it in his estate in 2017. When I got it back it was missing everything including the bat head badge and the special fender screws.
You still have that a7 right? Have I told you I do auto paint now?
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Great! I’ll drop it off this week.
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