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Mine - external - is being carried along the road by a 6yo little girl and will be here in a bout 20 mins. And I'm going for a ride tomorrow at 8:30 but its been a hard week I'd really like an evening of
Masterchef professionals
A tot of spiced rum and an ice cube
Crumpets and cheese
...rather than being in the shed all night.
?
15mins or so. It's not hard, maybe a little fiddly for the lever, but you only do that once and the rest of the swaps between dropper and rigid will be 5min jobs.
Chicken curry
Currently 6music whilst I cook
Either red wine or leffe. Depends how spicey I make the curry I reckon
30 mins including a bit of cable cutting and fettling
If your shed is anything like mine an hour to find the tools half an hour fumbling obveer the trip and ensnarement hazards an hour to find the fiddly bit you've dropped and it's rolled into one of the piles of assorted crap, twenty minutes to finish the job, cos you've lost one of the tools again and another hour or so to repeat the process once you've realised you've done it wrong.
Ginger and spring onion stir fry
Ghost ship and Aberlour 12
Jungle
If your shed is anything like mine an hour to find the tools half an hour fumbling obveer the trip and ensnarement hazards an hour to find the fiddly bit you’ve dropped and it’s rolled into one of the piles of assorted crap, twenty minutes to finish the job, cos you’ve lost one of the tools again and another hour or so to repeat the process once you’ve realised you’ve done it wrong.
This is me. Think I'll leave it until Sunday.
That rum wont drink itself, Kryton
Beef casserole.
Coffee.
Rayland Baxter radio until the football starts.
Bring your bike into the kitchen then you can drink rum, scoff food and install the dropper. Sorted.
20 mins. You will be happy you did it tomorrow.
if it’s too long put a loop in it till you have more time.
External reverb?
Plug it in, zip tie the hose, rotate the post to coil up any spare hose left over
Go ride
My internal one was a surprising amount of faff.
It has internal routing in the downturn which doubled as front mech. The entry and exit holes had cable stops in, so the cable runs inside the frame naked.
That works fine for front mechs BUT not for the stealth dropper. Why? Because you need a load of slack with the stealth dropper to allow you to remove the post from the frame. Well,I couldn't have that much slack at the bottom bracket, so I needed a full cable run so I could pull the slack through from the bar area when removing the post.
I had to drill the cable stop holes out of the frame to allow a full length outer run. I was able to drill to 3mm, enough to allow the thin dropper cable outer through but still stop an end cap so it should still work as a front mech cable.
15 mins for the external post
A very bland Tesco pizza
The new Aldi spiced gin and tonic
Masterchef on back up. Relaxing with my foot up after hopefully the last operation on it
No more than 20 min unless you can’t find the cable cutters.
E-steak & chips (rare with a bit of pepper)
D- Cono sur bicicleta Merlot
L (w)- The Looming Tower on Amazon.
(35 mins. I had to put a saddle on with measured tolerances and i dropped the little cable clamp thing 57 times)