canyoneagle

J-Tek bar end shifter. Top notch - CNC materials, and yep, it's indexed.

Tress94

Needs some mud on it...

First race is Saturday.

aballas

Thanks They're Hutchinson Piranhas... set up tubeless

Cynikal 

Well done sir!

kandyredcoi

really diggn the XCheck!!!!

Plow13

new tires, new crank and new brakes!

thenomad

Hope to find an action pic but here she is ready to race.
And some mud afterwards.

Rumpled

Ouch, looks like someone needs a new kit. Did you go down on some of the concrete?

thenomad

Not sure what you're seeing, it's just all mud. I do need new kit though, along with a bunch of other stuff

Rumpled

I thought I saw skin sticking out of your shorts.
Now, I see it was just tour arm, ha!

drummer5

Finally got my bike mostly done.

1990 Bianchi Volpe built up with spare used parts from other friends. Still need to get proper pedals and a chain keeper(Paul keeper is back ordered, grrrr)



Taking it for it's first ride tonight at our weekly practice, expecting lots of mud!

CrimsonKarter21

Updated the brakes to FSA SLK's and got a WTB Silverline Pro saddle for $40 off of Chainlove. Looks and brakes much better! I'm not sure how comfy the saddle will be coming from my tried and true Regal, but it was taking too much abuse.


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53-12

Like the bike. I am also thinking of converting a single speed road frame I have into a temporary cross bike until I can decide on a proper one. Of course it does not have the bosses for cross brakes - what brakes are you using on yours? and how have they been performing? Any problems?

cc700

milliron

mzeffex 

I love my crossbow.

pacificaslim

Can't remember if I've posted already or not. In training mode with some touring tires. And someone had asked about brake to tire clearance with the mini-Vs and though these aren't my usual cross tires of course, you can see there is tons of clearance still. Campy 10-speed shifters, sram 9-speed cassette, Shimano low-normal mtb rear derailleur, campy front derailleur, sram rival cranks, ritchey wcs fork, seatpost, bars, stem, tektro mini-v brakes... mix-n-match fun!

mzeffex 

New tubular wheels and tires.

pacificaslim

Damn, those Ridley's are awesome!

bw286

they are tektro r556. came stock with the bike. they work fine. probably better than a lot of cheap canti brakes, and no noise.

mzeffex 

Thanks

B17

Great looking bike!

How did you get your Campy 10 to work with Shimano 9? I've got a bunch of Shimano stuff that I would put with Mirage 10 brifters (I have a QS front and the derailleur for that, so no problem) if I knew if would shift correctly. I'm assuming your Shimano rear derailleur is 9 speed?

gospastic

New mares:

pacificaslim

Thanks. I think it'll work with just about any Shimano derailleur except the brand new mountain 10 speed derailleurs since they've changed the cable pull to derailleur movement ratio on those. But any 9-speed era mountain derailleur or 9 or 10 speed road derailleur should work great. I used the jtek shiftmate to adapt the cable pull, but there is also an "alternative" cable clamping at the derailleur that guys have used to get 10-speed campy to shift 9-speed shimano. I haven't tried the different cable clamping, but with the jtek it works flawlessly.

My derailleur is "low-normal" which means that it is at "rest" on the largest cog instead of the usual smallest cog. This means I hit the thumb button on the campy shifter to downshift up the cassette to easier gears. These are kind of a novelty that never caught on, but I think it works great for a cyclocross bike or any off-road applications where you go around a corner and suddenly realize you need to downshift several gears because of a hill. You can even dismount for an obstacle and downshift the thumb button while running with the bike and when you hop back on it will shift immediately to an easier gear to get you going again. And also when climbing from the hoods or even the tops, you can still reach the button easily to downshift again. I got this idea from Andrew Yee of Cyclocross Magazine (https://www.cxmagazine.com/).

It looks kind of goofy with the jtek pulley just before the derailleur, but I must say it does work great:

KonAaron Snake 

My new to me Lemond Poprad. I need to change out the steaming piece of dung Avid 4s for a set of old XT cantis or Dia-Compes and the wheels currently on are the road set.