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Stage 2: Just one more bit

Phil — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:49:59 +0000

As I wrote earlier, I am in the process of replacing quite a lot of the components of my road bike.

I’ve now fitted the rear dérailleur, which is from the SRAM Rival series. I’ve also changed the cassette on both my main and training wheels to 10-speed 12-27 units from Shimano’s 105 line. Happily, and as [...]

Phase 1 is complete

Phil — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:22:45 +0000

As I wrote recently, I am strategically replacing parts of my bicycle to address the parts which I currently find tiresome.

Today I changed the control levers, gear cables and brake cables from the silver Shimano Sora set which came with the bike to black SRAM Red equipment.

The gear cables supplied with the Red set are from [...]

My road-bike renewal scheme

Phil — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:36:45 +0000

Following up on my last post here, I am investigating how to improve my road bike. As I said there, it will involve a new wider-range cassette and a compact chainset. However I am also going to take the opportunity to fix a couple of other annoyances.

The first annoyance reared its head the first [...]