Cloudman wrote:majklnajt wrote:I am sure you like the look and fit of the bike, but the stem/bar/seapost/sadlle combo and shifters position ruins it for me.
Otherwise, very nice!
Please elaborate? Keen to get constructive criticism Deda 35 bars and stem, as GT56 states, are a bit of a misfit.
Nice bike but since you're asking for "constructive criticism" here's my initial thoughts....
- The levers are too far forward on those bars, moving them up and back some would look, and I think feel, much better while riding. Angle of the bars is ok, just move the levers. Doing this properly is a bit of work I know. Removing all the tape, repositioning levers, probably trimming the housings a bit ( which means pulling out the inner cables then readjusting everything at the end again). But I think that change alone would make things both aesthetically and functionally much better.
- The saddle position. Fit is fit for sure and you don't want to be messing with things that put you in a less comfortable riding position, but I found that experimenting with saddle fore/aft position simultaneously with saddle height can produce several seated positions within a small range that still work really well for comfort and power transfer. In your case I "might" try (your call here) moving the saddle back in the rails a bit while simultaneously lowering it. You can often end up with the same KOPS (knee over pedal spindle) just rotated a bit around an imaginary arc from the BB.
Love the simplicity of single color schemes, but as with a lot of steel or ti bikes and an aftermarket fork, if the fork isn't painted to match the frame I think it looks like the original fork was crashed and this is the best you could do as a replacement. Would it be possible to get the fork painted to match the frame color, and like others have said, lose the ENVE logos. Then everything would be completely right with the world.
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