I’ve just chopped the hoses on my gravel bike and routed them internally through some new bars. But the rest of the gravel bike is fully external. I’ve actually got a new stem, fully internally routed, and bars, sitting in my box of bike bits waiting to go on my Scott Addict road bike. I’ll certainly be watching for kinks now!!! I’m working up the courage to attempt the job. Shortening the hoses on my old gravel bike has been a practice run of sorts.
Tonight’s job on gravel bike is to bleed the brakes as shortening the hoses will have let in lots of air. It looks simples on YouTube but I’m still trepidatious.
Faff faff faff. It’s one step forward two steps back with this rebuild of my gravel bike (On One Pickenflick). Hoses are now routed through the bars and bled, which was easy. They needed it too as the Dot fluid looked discoloured. Rear mech recabled. Tyres and foam inserts installed and sealed successfully with Stans. And new mega cassette 9-46 11 speed installed. But my SRAM CX-1 long cage derailleur is too short (it’s max. 42 but it hoped to risk it).
So now I’m waiting on a Sunrace hanger extender. Even the new chain is sitting stripped and waiting to go on (hope it’s long enough). I may get onto the trails in another 2 weeks…
Just coming back to this if anyone does find themselves replacing their derailleur - it does actually fit as I had it in the above photo.
I moved it and bolted in between the two notches but the position of the derailleur didn’t look right when I started to adjust the b screw.
So actually took the the time to look for the Shimano fitting instructions and they show the installation as I have it.
In other news, I finally got round to replacing the creaky bb on the P3 - had to hammer the shit out of the old one then beat the crank back in but all looking ok now. Will give it a spin later.
Also took me two attempts to buy the correct tool online
Yeah f’ing BB tools. I empathise. Even Shimano have two tools now and the plastic adapter they bung in with new BBs is a POS.
Related- I bought a second hand Ti frame 10 years ago and to my surprise it came with a Phil Wood Ti square taper BB installed. Clearly the bloke couldn’t remove it. So yet another BB tool was needed to get it out.
If anyone wants to buy an expensive Phil Wood BB and tool then DM me
Thanks for pointing this out. Suddenly I feel much more sanguine about putting my derailleur into my spokes a few weeks ago. I mean if pro mechanics fcuk up…
Different incident I’m thinking of. IIRC he dropped a chain as his team though getting rid of the FD would be more aero. This was in the days before 1x was a popular concept on the road.
Should be ok just to put the cage back in, was there no dust cover? I don’t think I’d pack with grease though as you would want something quite thin not to increase drag.
