Re: Delta V 700 - Done?
Bloody Royal Mail, £11.65 to pay at the post office for my parcel from the states. No import duty as it was below threshold, but a foreign post handling charge - robbing barstewards, only cost £17 to get it here from the states. Thanks god the seller fitted the chainset and stem in one parcel. Worth it though, the polished cranks look great even if there were missing one chainring bolt on the inner ring.
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Brakes were a nightmare! Strangest designed canti's I've ever seen, I just couldn't figure out how all the springs and washers went together. Found the old manual online for the force 40 hangers, but nothing about the brakes themselves. Finally figured out that the spring doesn't mount in the frame, but in a spacer thats tightened against the frame boss. This spacer then adjusts with a cone spanner to alter the return tension. The force 40 hangers took a bit of back and forward on the straddle length to get right but certainly add power now they're right. Brake block were a total pain to get right and I'm still not convinced to back is aligned very well. Just going to run them in a bit and hopefully they'll wear themselves flush.
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Also bought a pair of Coda wheel QR's, you can just see them in the last photo above. Z-max tyres (2.1 my arse) look suitable retro even with the black sidewalls. Happier with the position of the new stem. Shorter length and extra rise make it feel less like I'm going over the bars at any moment. Can't imagine how ety935rs feels, going by his photo a couple of replies up!
As mentioned before, the shift from V's to canti's meant a change of levers. Gone are the STI levers, replaced by XT thumbs and brake levers which I've had since new in 1991. Did see a pair of nice Coda branded Dia Compe brake levers on eBay in the states, but they went for crazy money in the end. Did a search on here and found a pair for sale a month back but they've long since gone. Only had to replace the front brake outer, all the others were long enough to work with the new set up.
Original forks look great and now work properly so that's me pretty happy with everything. Might still work on adding more Coda parts if I can find them in the UK. Some nice NOS parts in the states but you've to add £17 for their postage plus the £11 charge from Royal Mail. Only other thing I can see changing are the shifters. Gear shifting not bad, considering I'm using the extra click of the 7 speed levers to run an 8 speed block but will need a bit of fiddling with cable tension once I've got a proper ride in them. I'll see how it goes for now, but if I see 8 speed XT pods come up I might just get them.
Last thing is the seatpost, still unsure about it. It does look a bit tatty, but the new logo on the Cannondale one I have doesn't match and might look odd. Thomson have had the same design forever so thats an option, or indeed a good old Syncros. Is a bike ever done????????
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