Allez: Brakes (BR-R9100)

First part of the installation of the Dura Ace R9100 will be the Brakes. The Allez features the “classic-style” of rim brakes (not direct-mount) so the BR-R9100 are perfect. Because I’m going to run the Mavic SLR’s further I need Exalith 2 brake pads. Respectively about weight saving I’m going to change the brake-shoe-screws to […]

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Allez: Powermeter Quarq DFour91 (GXP)

After a lot of “adventures” with Stages I decided to dispose this crap… This stuff was more than unreliable. Battery/Energy consumption horrible, pairing between the powermeter and the computer perceived at 25% of success. And don’t count the weather into… just outrage. As another choice the new pedal-based SRM/LOOK looks quite good but I wanted […]

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Allez: Stem And Handlebar

For the rebuild-up I decided to change the stem, handlebar and later the seat post. Reason for this is just cosmetic… The new flat black from ritchey look ultra nice and matches best with the new carbon and titanium parts. One part of this are the new carbon spacers. Those are also necessary because of […]

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Allez: Frame Re-Build-Up

First of all the strip down, after that… A phoenix from the ashes. The tear down of the frame is very simple because it runs the slogan “unscrew everything you can”. The “strip” itself is not documented… sry. But on the bright side I took only 30 mins. In the end to start again an […]

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Teaser: Allez ReBuild

This off-season I will rebuild the allez from scratch. This is not a simple service or component swap… Sure new components will be installed but also enhanced tuning will be take place in this “series”. I will change every single bearing, optimize the weight with titanium an alumnium as well as new carbon parts and […]

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Change: Ksyrium SLR Decals

Since last year there was this abomination, that atrocity… this one side of the rear wheel with the damaged slr decals. Today is the day I will fix that!I found a nice guy on eBay who generates 3rd party “oem” decals which are much BETTER in quality than the originals ones. These tools are needed: Cutter Tape […]

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Pedal Major Service (PD-6800)

I just decided to do a major service for the Ultegra pedals (PD-6800). So this will be a complete tear down of each pedal =D These tools are needed: Bike stand 7mm spanner 10mm spanner 17mm spanner Torque Wrench Grease Anti-Seize Towel Degreaser Official Service Manual: http://si.shimano.com/pdfs/dm/DM-PD0002-07-ENG.pdf No warranty in ANY case of damage! First […]

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