Allez! Allez!

Time to get all those components working together… cabling, hell yeah! As always the original Shimano sets will take place in this game. Still pleased with the quality in braking and shifting. So let’s start!

Finally the new STI Levers in the “classic style” – manual/rim. Regarding to the Ultegra 6900 the Dura Ace R9100 is more stealth but with a little glossy finish. In combination with the black finish of the Ritchey parts this looks awesome!

Now to the front derailleur of the Dura Ace R9100. I want the brazed-on style of this derailleur because I want a chain catcher as well. Originally the Allez features no mounting point for the front derailleur so there are two options: first 34,9mm front derailleur clamp-combo or 34,9mm brazed-on clamp. I go for the […]

Now it’s time for the derailleurs, first will be the rear one. At the moment there will be no “tuning” or “tweaks” but maybe later =) So this is just a simple task… one screw and your done.

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 […]

This is just a short exposure of the new group set… guessed the Dura Ace R9100 =D

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 […]

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 […]

All the time I raced a long fork with a lot of spacers, I think four?! Reason for this? Because of… I don’t really know… Until today. Time for fork sizing, yeha! I decided to run a mid-aggressive-style. This means not a total lowered stem. So this time two spacers down, one upper… just to keep […]

Today is BB-Time *GG* As shown in the preview a Quarq Dfour91 will be take place in this setup…. finally a powermeter!  This one will be shipped in two flavors: BB30 and GXP. Because of the BB30 implementation which is retarded (just keep a look in the install guide: spacer+spacer+adjustment-spacer wtf?!) I decided to run […]

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 […]