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moo

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Nigelnaturist said:
I have been pricing kit 105 shifters, 105 cassette and a KMC chain £175 (Tiagra £22 less) O.H. has offered to loan me some money, the FD I have should work short term till I can offered a matching 105
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Fair bit of money (albiet a nice upgrade) for a small broken part inside one shifter.
 
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moo said:
Fair bit of money (albiet a nice upgrade) for a small broken part inside one shifter.
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Either that or a new 9sp Sora at £90-100, and I haven't had much luck with them recently, by the time someone has told me its unfixable ( I think part of the ratchet mechanism has failed) time off the road ect..... Like I said I could do the Tiagra for £22 less in fact I could get a set up for £142 using Tiagra shifters and a Tiagra rear cassette, but not really in the ratios I want, though i could use the 105 cassette instead pushing the price to the mid £150's, but my way of thinking is if this has got to be done you might as well spend the extra £22 at this stage, though not 100% sure i want 105's but I dont really want Tiagra's with the indicators, never used them on the Sora's always generally knew where I was, middle or either end is usually close enough, also I am not convinced going to 10sp will be any better as the extra gear is a 12th rear instead of the lower end (this comes from having smaller rings on the front), I have been looking at options to make a 13-30 (13/14/15/16/17/19/21/23/27/30 or something) but the problem is not to many cassettes to choice from I would really like to set up something like 13/14/15/16/17/18/19/21/24/28 but the only ones with an 18th are Ultegra and I would need to get a locking 13th I can get one but its over £10, i will look further into with more experience
 
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Nigelnaturist said:
Either that or a new 9sp Sora at £90-100, and I haven't had much luck with them recently, by the time someone has told me its unfixable ( I think part of the ratchet mechanism has failed) time off the road ect..... Like I said I could do the Tiagra for £22 less in fact I could get a set up for £142 using Tiagra shifters and a Tiagra rear cassette, but not really in the ratios I want, though i could use the 105 cassette instead pushing the price to the mid £150's, but my way of thinking is if this has got to be done you might as well spend the extra £22 at this stage, though not 100% sure i want 105's but I dont really want Tiagra's with the indicators, never used them on the Sora's always generally knew where I was, middle or either end is usually close enough, also I am not convinced going to 10sp will be any better as the extra gear is a 12th rear instead of the lower end (this comes from having smaller rings on the front), I have been looking at options to make a 13-30 (13/14/15/16/17/19/21/23/27/30 or something) but the problem is not to many cassettes to choice from I would really like to set up something like 13/14/15/16/17/18/19/21/24/28 but the only ones with an 18th are Ultegra and I would need to get a locking 13th I can get one but its over £10, i will look further into with more experience
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I was the same with the Tiagra indicators at first, but you quickly get used to them.
 
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Supersuperleeds said:
I was the same with the Tiagra indicators at first, but you quickly get used to them.
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I have them on the Sora, something else that can wrong thats not needed at this sort of level, I can understand them on the Claris/Sora to someone getting into cycling, but from Tiagra up i don't think they are necessary, but I am not convinced of the gear cable running along the handle bars either, much more difficult to maintain, the extra gear really isn't much use to me where it is either Tiagra or 105, I was reading that the 105 FD will do a 22th range on the front, it was the fact 105 chainset is 30-39-50 that threw me a little, thats £18. I have been totting it up how much the bike would be worth to replace with its current parts and going with the 105 nearly £730 assuming £150 for the frame though its likely to be less than £100, this includes the bars, stem, saddle, seat post and wheels I have bought in the last year or so, next thing to change will be the frame, don't need to buy a new bike with all that kit on the Viking and I bet it still weighs 12+Kgs
 
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Nigelnaturist said:
I have been pricing kit 105 shifters, 105 cassette and a KMC chain £175 (Tiagra £22 less) O.H. has offered to loan me some money, the FD I have should work short term till I can offered a matching 105
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I wish shipping wasn't as expensive as it is from here to the UK. I have some 105 5600 shifters I would sell you cheap but you may not be interested in the 5600's. I changed them out for some 6700 Ultegras because the cables are hidden under the tape. I got them at Merlin. They had 105 5700s at a good price too. I would check there too. They may have them on sale.
 
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Went out to do my first 100k today ended up doing 132K and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

http://www.strava.com/activities/166230211
 
bigmig

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so finally got around to actually attaching the cadence and speed sensor to my bike and did one of my usual routes (Bedford loop) http://www.strava.com/activities/166314559 managed to get 14 PR's !!!. I was aiming to keep cadence at around 90 and I think it helped to improve my average speed a little as my riding speed was more even and less of pedal and coast. Average speed was 15mph pver a 31 mile ride which thus far is my best average speed for any distance over 20 miles.
 
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@RWright Thanks Rocky, I could only see doubles, Ribble have the best price I have found for a triple of £132 for the pair, I can find cheaper double sets but not triples, not so many stock triples due to this infatuation of compact doubles :smile:, and the other thing I need the bike back fully functioning a.s.a.p. really, one thing for sure though I wont be buying any more shifters off ebay in future.

Edit the 105 5700/3 are the same with the cables hidden, this I have a few doubts about, but I think its the route I am going to take, there wont be a need to set up a 10sp triple once the 11sp starts to come down in price a bit a 39x32 is 32" and I suspect before long road kit will be 34 on the rear giving 30"
and if a 13-34 on 39-53 is possible thats 30.17"-107.22" with a 13-14-15-16-17-19-21-23-26-30-34 or something like, that will put an end to road triples.
 
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bigmig said:
so finally got around to actually attaching the cadence and speed sensor to my bike and did one of my usual routes (Bedford loop) http://www.strava.com/activities/166314559 managed to get 14 PR's !!!. I was aiming to keep cadence at around 90 and I think it helped to improve my average speed a little as my riding speed was more even and less of pedal and coast. Average speed was 15mph pver a 31 mile ride which thus far is my best average speed for any distance over 20 miles.
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I dont know how you have it set up but set the non-zero avg to off, this gives you the avg cad excluding the time not pedalling, which will be higher, the Rider 20 seems to do this automatically, but it could be that it only records every 3 seconds.
 
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