Aaaaand it's Friday!!!
This one is a bit different from the previous bikes I've shown.
It's meant built for relatively short rides, at reasonably high speed.
There are a few details I find interesting:
A Shinolo cassette with variable spacing
A narrow-wide 12T pulley
The saddle has aluminum rails
The chain ring is a 56T from a pro team, so the TA Specialites branding is printed on the inside, to not get in conflict with the respective sponsor, whom couldn't provide rings big enough
The Shinolo cassette is simply CrampAndNoGo compatible sprockets from Miche, with spacers that are getting thinner as they get closer to the center of the hub.
That sounds like a disaster on steroids, but it actually works rather smooth. As in very smooth!
That 12T arrow-wide pulley is best regard our small and yellow friends, but surprisingly well machined. Being small and yellow, sadly meant that they had also mounted open ceramic bearings
The good news is that replacing those bearings with standard 689-2RS bearings was easy.
The saddle is something of its own. Back in the early nineties, I made a carbon saddle with hollow aluminum rails (it was crazy light!). I have never seen aluminum rails elsewhere, well, till that one. Ok, they're solid cast aluminum, but still.
Ok, so the usual BOM looks a bit different today:
Cannondale CAAD4 SilkRoad, carbon fork!
Renn Hexalite disc, tubular, rear wheel
Shimano 25th. anniversary hub, Ambrosio rim, front wheel
Shimano Dura Ace 7800 brakes
Shimano Dura Ace 7800 BB and crank set
Shimano Dura Ace 7700 brake-shifter combo
Shimano Dura Ace 7700 rear derailleur
Shimano Tiagra Front derailleur

(yes, it's a piece of junk, but I'm out of 31.8mm braze on clamps)
Kalloy seat post (also a piece of junk, to be replaced ASAP)
Selle Italia Century, 100 years anniversary saddle. May or may not stay, TBD
Continental GP4000 tubular rear tire, Tufo C S33 PRO24 up front.
Gebhardt 39T inner chain ring
TA Specialites 56T outer chain ring
KMC 9-93 chain (also nothing to write home to mom about)
The good news?
It's low, fast, fun, and due to the suspension, relatively comfortable.
Setting up the shifting was a bit of a challenge, due to the 56T, but I figured it was a matter of finding the right spacing of the chain rings.
TL:DR
It's stupid fast, good fun, yes the bizarre mix of components works!
Magura
