maxdre

Yup I am loving the black in the way it hides the dirt! The tape is Specialized Bar Phat 4.5mm Gels- feels very puffy indeed. Not sure if I like the thick bar yet.

maxdre

The front sensor? You'll have to forgive my noob placement of electronics

Next pic will be mounted on the correct side....

e_guevara

Hot. However...

Have the steerer cut and remove the water bottles, then repost.

YOJiMBO20

It's lukewarm right now.

Cut the extra steerer tube, switch to a black stem, level the saddle, lose the bottles, ditch the valve caps, put it in the big ring, and keep the white tape (go with Fizik, keeps clean and cleans well when dirty) and you will be closer to hot.

bianchi10

take out the water bottles, cut stem, and flatten out the saddle.

YOJiMBO20

Also, welcome to the forums and all that jazz.

maxdre

Next pic: without water bottles, speed sensor swapped sides.

As regards the steerer: Are people slamming and just getting used to the riding position?

YOJiMBO20

Cut the steerer above the stem.

bianchi10

TDRILL-

This is what your bike would look like with a slammed and flipped 6 degree stem (I used the same one you have). I personally think it looks MUCH gooder....


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YOJiMBO20

I see you also took the Garmin off the stem, bianchi...

But I agree. Much more gooderer.

WhyFi

Don't ****ing do that. If you're comfortable with the height it's at now, cut the excess steerer. When you feel like experimenting, slide it down but leave the excess until you're sure you're comfortable with the new position.

maxdre

Thank you! Loving the bikes on here although I fear for my credit card's safety.

Thank you for the advice- will get on that for the next pic
All taken on board- thanks for the advise. Will borrow a friends black stem for trial and also will take a look at fizik white tape.

bianchi10

maxdre-I wonder how your bike would look with white hoods if you kept the black bar tape.

bianchi10

My PS would assume the garmin would be on a mount in front of the bars as I suggested which cleans up the cockpit.

maxdre

I must partake in some photoshop experimentation on that one bianchi10- priority for now is cut the steerer after playing around with lower bars..

I agree. Also the SLR01 looks much much gooderer with straight stem. HOT!!

bianchi10

are you asking me to PS for you?

maxdre

If you can do it without much trouble it would be great. I have Adobe CS on my work laptop but have not used photoshop for a long time

bianchi10

I'll work on it tonight in about an hour after the kido's go to bed.

maxdre

You're too kind! Thanks!

bianchi10

Here ya go. Got ride of the bottles and straightened your saddle as well....

TDRILL

I agree with all of this as you and others have stated. Since this is about as much drop as I can reasonably handle, I can't slam the stem like I'd want to without going to a lesser degree stem. This is what it came with and so I run it but ideally it would have less drop like the -6 you posted. The cages, I loved the look online but as soon as I got them, hated the look on the bike. I did something I said I'd never do and spent too much money on carbon cages and feel a bit stuck with them. I found a set that are more minimalist and have a touch of red which I think are much better but IDK if I want to spend anymore money on the bike.

If you saw the hideous Cobb saddle I ran on my previous bike (seen in the Show me your Black bike thread), you would fall all over yourself to get this SMP back on. Unfortunately, junk comfort conquers all for me so love it or hate it, I will always run a funky saddle with a big cutout. The Fizik's etc that look great, I have tried but stuff is falling asleep under 30 miles even shifting my positions around etc.

Besides the stem issue, my biggest gripe is that it needs just a touch more flash which I think a bit of red will do. At minimum a tiny touch of red on the cages. IDK if red hubs would be too much. Thought about maybe black hub but red nipples? IDK, just missing a tiny something to perfectly set it up and break up the drab of black / white / grey

Anyway, I'll take my majority hot and run with it. It is way hotter than my slow a$$ deserves already. Thanks everybody for the great feedback

YOJiMBO20

Black stem is good. Would be gooder with white tape, too.

YOJiMBO20

Red nips and a 3T Team stem (and maybe post and bars...) would be just the right amount of red methinks. And the red nips would line up perfect with the red on the fork if you keep those rims.

bianchi10

I disagree completely. I don't think it needs anymore flash. The minimal and subtle red accents it has Is good. I honestly think you would dig the look of your bike if you went to a -6 degree and dropped the spacers. Having a stack of spacers that high combined with a stem that low is counter productive. Besides slammed stem always looks bad ass. Your bike is far from drab. It actually has alot going on. In fact if you read back, a majority of the folks recommended you debadge your wheels to help tone it down. Your bike is intended to have a stealth look to it not sparkle with accent colors.

slowride454

I still have a bunch to do, but is this properly slammed and flipped?