My Cannondale with the Canti's is converted to flat bar so you get an even better pull from the levers and they are so sharp and a doddle to set-up using the barrel adjuster👍
I managed to steal a few more mm on my sons bike by swapping the 'set back' seat post for a virtually straight one 👍
Most of the day spent fettling the metal bike shed; finally put the dehumidifier in it. Definitely in need of it today with the roof dripping with condensation.
A hole was needed in the side for the outlet tube which took far longer than expected to create due to the battery powered drill deciding it needed charging and ultimately resort to a file due to hole size needed. An existing hole on the other side enlarged to take an extension cable, one from Screwfix with a nice weatherproof socket on the end and a hole drilled in the garden shed for the cable to access the mains socket in there.
Fitted a dehumidifier control unit between the extn lead and the dehumidifier itself which has a digital readout of just how wet it is and a cable senor which was fitted midway across the roof. 90% it said, target is 50% so electric company will be rubbing their hands
The shed is the flat roof floorless 2 bike Asgard locker. The dehumidifier is a Ecoair DD1 simple which does have an inbuilt sensor but I thought a separate one would be better as it would be more readily adjustable (not necessarily having to move both bikes out to get at it) while also allowing for a sensor to be better located around the middle of the shed. The dehumidifier is towards the back with a brick keeping it from going too close to the rear wall, has it be 40cm from a wall. The bikes fit either side, the road bike in front end first and the other backwards. The sensor is an Inkbird IHC-200 which will also work a humidifier or fan if too dry although that is pretty unnecessary for this purpose. The default settings seem fine and in the shot below the dehumidifier is operative as the top reading in the display is greater than 55; whilst it is set to 50 there is a differential value of 5 so that if you have both a dehumidifier and a humidifier they are not both on the same time. Might tweak that to the minimum value of 1.
Nice. I've never ridden on a Titanium bike, how does it compare to Steel/Aluminium and Carbon?
I have started to like Steel again after realising that the newer grade/spec is not the same as the old heavyweight material used for making Grifters etc.. I was a bit apprehensive about what the fork would feel like but it's absolutely fine and the amount of discomfort/buzz compared to my carbon forks is marginal despite me mainly using it on rough surfaces. I'm sure that after a longer touring type ride I may think differently though! Did all of the VN's come with carbon forks or has yours had them fitted afterwards?
Interesting stuff.. I was aware the the weight/strength benefits as I work in the Aerospace Industry but I've never been a big fan of the 'naked' frame look on a bike. When I got my first CAADX they did it in polished Aluminium with a black carbon fork which was a higher spec and cheaper than the one I chose at the time but my bikes have to appeal to me visually or I just can't get on with them. Shallow I know
There is a knock out on the casing of the dehumidifier and the tube pushes onto a connector inside.
