What have you bought for the bike today ?

[Jenkins]

More for while on the bike rather than for the bike, I've just ordered a bottle of...

That should put a stop to the recent good weather

 

[chriswoody]

Figured I’d buy new discs for the new wheels - then I can literally remove the (49 mile old 🙄) wheels on the bike: and sell as a set completely ready to go with tyres, brake discs, skewers etc.

And then you start looking into weights of course 😙 **And whether floating discs (And the buttons on them) will clear my calipers. So the below discs may just be ‘temporary’. Either way i should now have every single part bought and on the way…….

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I thought I'd post on here rather than derail the other thread. After you bought up the concern about the rivets on the floating disc fouling the calipers, I thought I'd have a look at mine. The rivets themselves barely protrude from the surface of the disc itself and as you can see from the photos below, they are in line with the mounting bolts at their closest point, rather than the caliper body. Now I have IS caliper mounts with a IS to Post mount adapter. On a flat mount I suspect that all this space would be filled with frame, however, I doubt that the rivets would touch. You can see on mine the clearance is tight, but crucially there is clearance.

I don't if that is helpful or not, but hopefully it gives you a better idea.

 

[sevenfourate]

I thought I'd post on here rather than derail the other thread. After you bought up the concern about the rivets on the floating disc fouling the calipers, I thought I'd have a look at mine. The rivets themselves barely protrude from the surface of the disc itself and as you can see from the photos below, they are in line with the mounting bolts at their closest point, rather than the caliper body. Now I have IS caliper mounts with a IS to Post mount adapter. On a flat mount I suspect that all this space would be filled with frame, however, I doubt that the rivets would touch. You can see on mine the clearance is tight, but crucially there is clearance.

I don't if that is helpful or not, but hopefully it gives you a better idea.

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I really appreciate the thoughts and the time taken to take pictures for me ! That’s awesome thank you.

My rims from DT Swiss are here. Hubs from Hope may be a week (?). Then drop bits at LBS who are building them for me; and mock up / measure spoke length and order as needed. Then build. At that point I can trial a disc on the bike. So it’s going to be a little while as yet…..

I’ll of course update as progress appears. Hopefully only the positive sort 😉

 

[Alex321]

Two new Pirelli P zero Race tyres (tubeless), plus sealant and an air tank pump.

And I've just looked them up, and they aren't the tubeless variant. Ooops. They said in Ride Bike Wales that they were tubeless, and I never thought to double check. I got them seated, got sealant in, and they have stayed up through a short test ride.

We'll have to see what happens longer term, but I won't be able to call back to RBW until next Tuesday.

 

[Alex321]

Two new Pirelli P zero Race tyres (tubeless), plus sealant and an air tank pump.

And I've just looked them up, and they aren't the tubeless variant. Ooops. They said in Ride Bike Wales that they were tubeless, and I never thought to double check. I got them seated, got sealant in, and they have stayed up through a short test ride.

We'll have to see what happens longer term, but I won't be able to call back to RBW until next Tuesday.

And what happens is that the front tyre was flat this morning. Pumped it back up, but 10 minutes later flat agsin, not riskinga commute on that.

I'll be giving Ride Bike Wales a ring this morning,see what they say.

 

[Alex321]

And what happens is that the front tyre was flat this morning. Pumped it back up, but 10 minutes later flat agsin, not riskinga commute on that.

I'll be giving Ride Bike Wales a ring this morning,see what they say.

Having rung them, they will sort it out, they'll have to order in the right tyres, but should be there tomorrow.