Yak those cable housings look great on the bike, nice match for the silver on the frame. Just might get a set for my Kestrel. My bikes accelerates very well too, when you drop the hammer on it it takes off. Do you mind if i post a picture of it in your thread?

Look sweet!

I did notice it accelerates faster than my steel Zurich, for sure.

post away any pictures you have.

most excellent.

I did forget to mention that it is a sweet build. Great work!

+1, nice bike, but that tape really ruins it. Don't you have electrical tape?

Actually the fog gives the photo's a nice soft light IMO. Nice looking bike!

Took these last week.

57 cm RT700 frame
Ultegra 6600 Shifters, Front /Rear Deraileurs and brakes
SRAM Rival OCT 53/39t Crankset
Ultegra 11/23 freewheel
Dura-Ace CN-7801 10-speed Chain, Connex 10-speed Connecter
FSA K-Force Carbon Stem
FSA K-Force Carbon Wing Bar
Kestrel Aero Seatpost
Fizik Arione WingFlex
Mavic Ksyrium ES Tubulars Wheels
Vittoria Open Corsa EVO CX Tubular Tires
Ultegra 6620-G Pedals
Weight is just under 17lbs

Now that's much better lighting. Nice ride!

Does your seatpost/seat creak at all? I torqued mine to spec, then hand it a bit more on the ride, but it still creaks a bit on climbs when I slide back a bit.

I read somewhere that when you use a round post in the rt700 that there's a tendency to creak. That's just hearsay though.

Very nice!
One thing though: I've never dealt with SRAM drivetrains, but the shifter cable housings look awfully short. Can you still turn the handlebars?

I never set up a SRAM system before, so I fretted over that a bit, looking at pictures of other bikes, and tried a longer length on one side. I was trying to prevent a constant contact with the head tube that would wear on the paint, and found the shorter ones would stay off the tube better than longer ones. It's a tad tight when the handlebars get close to 90 degrees, but that's not something I care about. I also ended up putting half a glueless patch on each side of the head tube where the housing contacts it.

3M has an E-store for the colored electrical tapes in bulk (HomeDespot does sell most colors in single rolls, though). Gray is closest I could find in their Scotch #35 line. Perhaps that'll calm folks down a bit.

I had checked (B)Lowes, but not Home Cheapo. But now that I'm following in the footsteps of RyanF's BF immortality, I don't know...

No it never creaked but was prone to slipping, fixed that with the hairspray trick.

Nice bottle cages, I've got one on my bike as well. Oh and the bike is pretty nice too .

I used carbon assembly paste on the post. Maybe I'll try resetting it with more paste.

Nice build. I might have you do my next Kestrel

How do you like the Red? Have you ridden Force/Rival to compare against?

Saddle creak: I have the aero post and my saddle creaked but the saddle was set up too far back. I slid it forward on the rails and it seems to have gone away. My knees are not sore anymore either so I needed to go forward anyway.

I like your bottle cages too.

No, this was my first ride on SRAM. I found the shifting to be second nature, in fact, after I got back out on my Ultegra-equipped bike, I tried to shift to a lower gear using the paddles.

I'm still dialing in the saddle position, it might end up a bit forward so time will tell.

The little hint of orange on the cages sold me on them.

Twitchy got some new spacers and she lost that old duct tape.

Hehe... but it does match the frame! Interesting flat top tube.

Hey Yak, how do you like that rear sram cassette with all those "missing" teeth? It looks crazy and made me do a double take. Does it noticeably improve the shifting between gears?

It actually shifts smoother than the Shimano cassette I used yesterday while trying to isolate a ticking noise in the frame.