Apologies for my water bottle OCD, but I have a phobia of running out of water : ) First photo is from the Kiwi Brevet, and the next one, the Tour Aotearoa. In the Kiwi Brevet I used radiator clip mounts. In the Tour Aotearoa I used the insulation tape technique. This technique was great EXCEPT in t...

Chicken Legs wrote:Finally managed to put a few words and pictures together, hopefully it does the Tour Aotearoa justice

https://touraoteroa.wordpress.com

Regards,
Andy

Cool. I will put it in the TA blog page : )
http://www.touraotearoa.nz/p/blogs.html

Some of my pics from the event: https://www.flickr.com/photos/12617230@N03/albums/72157665070534153 When I got back to Christchurch I went for a spin around Banks Peninsular. On the way I bumped into Shane Davidson who is the SPoT dealer in NZ and who was responsible for the event tracking as I str...

If anyone is interested in seeing how the TA went down, here are a few views. http://jeffsbike.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/tour-aotearoa-2016-bikepacking-length.html https://slate.adobe.com/cp/Fxmdr/ https://slate.adobe.com/cp/Nbagb/ http://jacobwroberts.blogspot.co.nz/ Seems to be a lot of interest in i...

I profiled a few of my buddies bikes.
http://jeffsbike.blogspot.co.nz/

The official site.
http://www.touraotearoa.nz/

Tracking site.
http://touraotearoa2016.maprogress.com/

Wish us luck : )

That looks damn fine! I just picked up mine, in my lunch hour, a custom built for my small karate monkey. Its 6cms across for the record.

Kerry at Klite is doing these. http://www.klite.com.au/#!product/prd1/4376949905/%27anywhere%27-2-hole-bottle-cage-adapter I have 10 of them in my hand at the moment. To be attached to frames with zip-ties or radiator hose-clips. oops, and these: http://www.klite.com.au/#!product/prd1/4389523035/sal...

Check out this guys site!
I love this stuff : )
http://faqload.com/faqs/bicycle-compone ... en-8-speed

There is masses of really cool info in this site for people who dont just buy what they are told to.

Hmm, nice to know that with the ratios being used there's enough space to modify with a few small shims. That said, I'm running a 9 speed (or should i say standard 1.7 shift ratio) XTR rear mech with a 10 speed road shifter for 10 speeds - it goes out of index with crap more easily than a 9 speed s...

Yes, please report back, I love stuff like this! Ha ha, I just happened to be in his shop on Friday, he didn't want to share his hack to the wide world : ( but he said it was just a case of making some measurements and working it out in theory, and it worked first time. He basically attaches someth...

Aren't the cassettes marginally different widths which would suggest a 10 speed mech won't have the range to cover it irrespective of pull ratio? 9 and 10 were the same so you could use 9 speed mech with 10 speed shifter. (That is cassette width rather than pull ratio...the mech just moves to where...

voodoo_simon wrote:Tried this week with a ten speed shifter and an eleven speed mech, didn't work

There is a local mechanic doing it here. Will try to get more details, it involves changing the cable routing. Pretty sure my buddy is running indexed 11 speed bar-end shifters with a 10 speed MTB rear mech.

There does seem to be a problem with bearings on the thru-axle version of some of the SP hubs. It seems very random. But I know two people that had theirs fail after a week of sporadic use. I have heard that the factory is doing some reingineering, and are very very good at sorting replacements. I j...

I have become a recent dynamo light user with the Exposure combo, Revo light and SP 9mm qr hub rebranded. A buddy told me about his back-up system so I tried it, and its vaguely exciting. I did a blog post on it here. I call it the PMD, poor mans Diablo. Cheap as chips. http://jeffsbike.blogspot.co....