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I considered riding my F3 but decided to wait for an injury to heal (tendon went twang like a rubber band while sprinting across the tarmac last week) before risking another.

KMC 8 speed. The only manufacturer of reputable quality that has a “gold” chain. I haven’t got out on the road since I got the derailleurs adjusted perfectly. But it is working great with the bike in the repair stand.

Put new tires on a Black Lightning yesterday. Beautiful day for a ride today. But traction on the corners might be difficult.

Thanks for the Cane Creek reference. Will check. Best I could come up with for a number is OPC-30. I got that from Dia-compe’s Taiwan site. They look similar but sans forward arrow identifier. No dimensions either. There are a couple listings on the bay for OPC-30KX that look the same but are...

Anyone know the part number for Dia Compe 400 brake pads? About to put new tires/tubes on and thought I’d put new brake pads on. They’re not rock hard but doubt their performance is very good. I’ve got the gears figured, about to put on new rubber and going to pedal to a high rate of speed...

Makes me think I better service my headshok sooner rather than later. Mine is a decade newer. I wonder at what age or use the seals degrade to the level yours did.

Hopefully a good flushing with something like mineral spirits will clean all those decomposed elastomer bits out…

@JohnnyD Are you suggesting a daily bowel movement before a bike ride would improve performance due to less energy use because of less mass?? ;)

The previously linked Suntour pdf, page 10 was the solution to my shifting woes. The selector ring on the rear shifter was not selected in “UL”. It wasn’t selected in any of the 3 choices. But the shifter “clicked” when I used it, so I didn’t think I had a shifter problem. Once UL was dialed in...

Grazie!

Suntour accushift bulletin 21

I'll have to check later. But I'm not remembering if it says Suntour Winner Pro on the FW. It would be 7 speed for this one. The SB link has dimensions for the Ultra and the MicroDrive 7 speed FW. I don't know where the Winner Pro fits. But it's worth a look. Thanks. I'm second guessing chain...

Must be my procedure. I can either get it to skip 2nd to largest cog or 2nd to smallest. Either way I get consistent shifts through the middle. If I tune out of either end I get shifting issues in the middle.

Other than new cables and chain I believe it’s all original parts. I think it’s me. I seem to have it indexed fine on the 3 smallest cogs. But the next 2 are noisy while riding. Moving the shifter a tiny bit while pedaling I get the solid click, and sometimes it’ll skip a gear.

Went for a longer New Years Day ride on BLII. Enough to row through the gears. Needs a bit of tuning still. But wow what a ride! Very responsive. And dare I say wanting to launch better than my CAAD3! It just wants to get up to speed quick. Down tube shifting not quite second nature yet...

I began to wonder myself. When sizing I did the large chain ring to large cog, plus two pins. But removing/reinstalling the rear wheel I felt the chain might be better longer. I tend to have my initial cable tension too tight. Being aware of that I paid extra attention to that detail with this...

Good enough for a ride! BL II did fine. The indexed shifting was difficult for me to tune.

No I did not. Sadly. I'm out of space. I did receive a message from the seller the other day. He's wanting to make a deal......

Frank Zappa?

I've got that on my "watchlist". Nice enough and right sized enough. But yes, too expensive.