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Daninplymouth

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Well after a crappy week and what seems to have taken forever. My Mason Definition is out for delivery today. I wasn’t expecting it for another couple of weeks and with all the issues regarding components I was half expecting to cancel the order as I couldn’t really see it arriving so to say I’m a bit excited is an understatement, just sat at the the window now waiting for the TNT lorry
 

Cycleops

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Accra, Ghana
Good for you. Be sure to post some pics when it arrives.
 
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Daninplymouth

Daninplymouth

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As always delivery was any time up until 6, sat in all day and it arrived at 5 so have only briefly put together and had a quick test ride feels great so far
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Daninplymouth

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It isn't black enough, look at that front mech :ohmy:
It’s ok iv got some fluorescent yellow bottle cages to fit tomorrow
 
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Daninplymouth

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Planning on my local 30mile loop tomorrow to see how it is after an hour 1/2 or so but the position feels good a little lower than my old bike but not to extreme. The hunt wheels feel very quick, set a pb on the flat mile at the end of my ride although it was interesting tonight with the wind we had. Just need to have a play around with the di2 in the morning as the 2nd and 3rd gear was a little noisy but can’t believe how smooth everything else felt
 
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Daninplymouth

Daninplymouth

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Thanks all just had another ride and I’m really enjoying it especially with the wheels it’s holds speed very well. Tagged onto a little group and smashed some of my records on my fave run.
Little bit of colour added
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But more important was the gold segments, took almost 30seconds of my long slight downhill
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One little issue I have the gears were a bit noisy in 2nd 3rd and 4th on the small cog, I had a play around with the di2 alignment and they have gone now although I do get bit of a clunk when dropping from 4th down to 5th I think it is. However at the opposite end when trying to drop onto the 11t it is a bit temperamental and only moving across first time on about half the shifts, would I be right to think i could try and wind the H screw counter clockwise a little bit?
 

BianchiVirgin

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Norn Iron
No no no. Get someone with Di2 knowledge. It needs a bit of tinkering but you need to know what you're doing. Shifts should be seamless and quiet.
 
Good Afternoon (edit it's not morning any more, where has the day gone?)
....to drop onto the 11t it is a bit temperamental and only moving across first time on about half the shifts, would I be right to think i could try and wind the H screw counter clockwise a little bit?
It sounds like you've followed the setup steps of select 5th, enter setup mode and "change down" until there is a slight rub on 4th sprocket and then "change up" 4 times.

If you have done this and you can't get the smallest sprocket reliably then looking at the limit screw (stopper bolts according to the Shimano docs!) seems quite reasonable, especially if your micro adjustments have moved the cage 1 or 2 stops outwards whilst still in 5th gear.

This is where Di2 and mechanical do differ, you mustn't undo the limit screw a lot, go onto the smallest sprocket and then adjust the limit screw so that it just touches the limit plate.

It may be non obvious but on upshifts the rear mech deliberately overshoots, waits for a bit (<1 second) and then downshifts by something like 1/5th of a whole shift. You need to allow for this overshoot when adjusting the limit screw, Shimano say undo the limit screw one complete turn.

See the caveat below.

No no no. Get someone with Di2 knowledge. It needs a bit of tinkering but you need to know what you're doing. Shifts should be seamless and quiet.
I have an older 10sp Ultegra Di2, read the manual and treat it like any mechanical system apart for the overshoot, am I missing something and am about to break it? :smile:

I sometimes get a "Campag style" solid reassuring kerchunk shift and a good proper gear change when going from 3rd the 4th, 21t to 19t. This pure speculation but I suspect that this might be a point where I change harder underload, as 50x21 is quite a low gear I may be in it going up a slight but long hill and am now going downhill, spun out and already in a high, for me, cadence even after the shift.

This change is also the first change where there is an overshoot and correction.

Bye

Ian
 
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