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OGK Kabuto FULRE
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5.56kg S-Works Tarmac SL8
I’ve finally caught the flu! It’s been so long, and I’ve been kinda excited about it! I’ve been in bed for 2 days straight (Mia loves it!) and I’ve also not smoked in 2 days either so I figure this is a great opportunity for me to quit smoking. Gotta get some sun though, so heading out for a ride later today.
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SESSION
Good to catch up with some old faces at SESSION today. Some truly awesome machines there so look out for our photo feature soon.
Special thanks to all who came and aid “Hi!” and massive thanks to Carbon St. for this awesome carbon fibre baseball bat! I love it!
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Specialized S-Works Ares 2
The hunt for shoes that fit my wide feet continues…
They’re a little tight, but hoping they bed in as these shoes actually feel so much stiffer than my Shimanos or Bonts!
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Weight Weenie goods in the mail – Gelu Saddle & Tine Yokes
GELU K-3 Carbon/punctured in 3K matte black.
Tine yokes for Darimo seatpost on my SL8.
The SL6 is officially in the Sub 5 Club. OK I’m done… I promise!
In other bike news I put my Allez Sprint up for sale for %4,500 and instantly had 2 buyers who were keen on it but I decided I just couldn’t let it go.
I have my SL8 so dialled in that I’m starting to realise it’s the bike in my fleet that I want to ride every single time. IE: If I had to sell all bikes but one it’s the SL8 I’d keep so I sold the Pinarello Dogma F to Jason, a fellow car guy last week and last night I sold my Canyon Grizl to Anita, a rad girl who was previously riding a lower spec Trek. She’s going to absolutely love the bike and I’m going to miss it (the purple paint job specifically!).
I’ve still got 2 BMX bikes in storage that I’ve been meaning to move on, and I’m now thinking of donating my (now vintage) Giant Reign 1 mountain bike to the guy who looks after my apartment building.
Right now I’m down to 8 bikes. 8’s my lucky number (lol) and I never intended to ever have more than 8 bikes at one time so I’m now back on track. Can’t promise that I won’t want to start a new build, but can promise to make it a rule that I’d have to let one go before picking another one up!
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Gifting my apartment building’s cleaner a bike
Today I gifted the Nepalese kid who does the bins and cleans the lifts and front foyer in my apartment my old Giant Reign 1.
He sees me nearly every single day with my bike and the other day he told me he’d like to buy a bike and his budget was $500, but he didn’t know what to look for.
I let him know that I’d look on FB Marketplace for him, but as I started looking I figured I’d just surprise him and give him my trusty Giant Reign 1.
He loves it! I’m excited!
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Gina’s SL8 Update
Gina’s a little pocket rocket! She rides at least twice a week, and she gets faster every ride. Last ride she did 28km/hr average which is SO awesome!
It’s not all been smooth sailing though. Gina has never used the front derailleur, but I noticed that the front derailleur wasn’t shifting and it wasn’t showing up in the app either. I figured it’s because a wire has been disconnected from the battery so I took the seatpost out and damn, the battery and holder were wedged deep within the frame.
I didn’t have a J bend spoke to try to fish it out, or a coat hanger, so I took it back to the shop (Wooly’s Wheels) that Gina bought the bike from. I did let them know that I lowered the seat by 3mm, and did try to update the firmware but didn’t have the right cable to do it, so the sales guy tried to charge me $120 for the firmware update! :x
I 100% expected this kind of service from this kind of shop. As mentioned earlier, it’s a rich inner city Sydney suburb and I’m sure a LOT of their customers are clueless. Of-course I argued, and said surely this is all a warranty thing, to which he said “maybe, we’ll see”.
I left the bike there, and a few hours later Gina called me to tell me the bike was ready to be picked up so I went back in to get it, expecting not to pay a single dollar, but nope, there was a $215 AUD charge to replace a damaged Di2 cable and to cut the seatpost.
I was so beyond furious at this point that I didn’t feel like fighting. He said they updated the firmware under warranty, but they had to cut the seatpost down some more in order to accomodate the height we had the seatpost at (IE: they never cut the seatpost down enough originally as lowering it 3mm somehow caused the wire to get damaged). $50 for the wire apparently, and the rest in labour!
CCACHE would never have charged so much, and my thinking that the shop we bought this expensive bicycle from would take care of us was flawed.
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