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Buy Brandon McNulty's or Adam de Vos's

ptempel

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I'd probably pick a frameset with endurance or more "traditional" road geometry if I were buying another. I already have an early 2000's Lemond Buenos Aires frameset so will be building that up next. I know its not as light as carbon, but its still got that Reynolds 853 "magic."

Edit: @Lazyass, congrats on the new bike!

Lazyass

I'm 5'10" w/ a 32in inseam. I do run my saddles a little lower than average, 71cm from the center of the BB to the top edge of the saddle with that crank length. And because I'm getting old I started going with less reach, hence the shorter stem. Sucks the stock HED stem was too long for me because it's pretty nice.

You get a bunch of stuff with it. The bottle cages, that carbon paste for the seatpost, block off plates to use Di2, extra FD and RD hangers and even a little torque wrench with the allen bits.

I went on a proper ride this morning at sunup for 33 miles and I could ride a century in total comfort. It's a great bike for chipseal roads. Even the stock Prologo saddle is good on my rear (and nice looking) so I'll keep it. It's super responsive, the brakes are quiet, it's all good. Deal of the year at $1124. The only issue is that dang brake hose rattling inside the tube. I did some research and I'm going to order some 9mm x 6mm foam tubing and slide it over the hose inside.

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WhyFi

The RS-505s work really well; as long as your hands fit them okay, I couldn't see someone being disappointed with their performance. And while they look awkward and bulbous, they're not as offensive from the saddle and I actually think that the knob is a kind of reassuring on choppy sections of road.

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Lazyass

I measured my 505's and my Ultegra 6700's, and the 505's stick out a full inch further. These things are huge. If you ride with your hands glued to the hoods all the time like so many do today it will affect your reach. But they feel great to me. I like the 44cm bars, too.

FYI for another issue I had. The seatpost was clicking inside the seat tube every pedal stroke so I used my little pipe cutter that I bought to cut steerer tubes and chopped about 3 inches off and it's good now. If you don't run your saddle as low as me it may not be a problem.

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Lazyass

Yeah 172.5

Spoonrobot 

Anyone know if the rim brake Podium E'tape will fit 28s? I found a blurb about it but haven't been able to confirm. I've been out of the road racing bike game for a while and looking to get back into it, just with a little larger tires.

Lazyass

It's supposed to have the same frame as the disc version (minus mounts of course). Another mistake on their site is the tires. The Conti's are listed as 23c but I got the 25c's. And on the Flanders wheels I measured them with my calipers at exactly 28c, with room to spare. The caliper version is listed with the same wheels and tires.

The DB website is totally jacked up. So is Raleigh's, which is the same company. Last year I was looking at a steel Raleigh disc bike. The picture showed it had skewers, but the specs listed thru axles. I sent a message asking what it was and was replied that it had thru axles. A couple of weeks later they changed it in the specs to skewers.

Monday I received a reply from my email telling them the geometry charts were messed up. The guy admitted they were jacked but basically said all I needed to be concerned with was the recommended rider height for each size. As if a 2cm difference in ST length or 10mm in HT length is irrelevant. Just stupid.

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Spoonrobot 

Thanks for the response, just what I needed to know. I'm still waffling on rim or disc but I'm pretty set to getting in on this.

Lazyass

Better hurry, the extra 25% off ends Friday. My biggest thing is brake squeal and rotor rub and mine have been silent so far. I only notice the brakes when I squeeze the lever. Like mentioned above, the frame of the rim version looks like the older model. Pictures don't do this bike justice, it looks pretty cool in person.

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jordanair45

For anyone that got this deal, how is the bike?

My BB started creaking, but everybike I've had with BB30 creaks, so no biggie.

Lazyass

With 114 miles on mine in three days I can't think of anything on this bike that's negative, except they should have set up the rear brake hose so it wouldn't rattle inside the frame. My BB is silent, it has the Praxis conversion one and not a press fit. All I can say is this bike is bad ass and the deal of the year.

jordanair45

Right on. I haven't investigated my issue, just started happening the other day, might just be some bolts on the crank, who knows.

Put 47 miles on mine today, love it more and more with each right.

My cables do not rattle.

Mindcrime

I've put around 500 miles on my Podium Equipe Disc. No squeaks or problems with one exception. The rear thru axle keeps vibrating open, no matter how tight I close the QR lever. I had to put some blue Loctite on the threads of the receiving bolt, and also on the bolt that holds in that receiver in the frame as it kept coming loose too. Since then no problems.

Lazyass

My front thru axle came loose yesterday, I noticed the wobbling wheel when I got home and pushed my bike inside. It was good on a 2 hour ride this morning. I'm pretty amazed how killer this bike is. Comfort wise it's like an endurance bike but performs like a race bike.

jordanair45

I have no problems with the QR BUT they are pretty crappy, I've been looking to upgrade these.

Lazyass

For my rattling brake hose I came up with an idea. I cut an old road tube to tube just wide enough to wrap around the hose slightly loose and long enough. I would wrap one section and secure it with regular clear tape, fish it through the hole, wrap another section, fish it in, ect until the entire hose inside was wrapped. Totally silent now.

jordanair45

What you guys think ? Put some.50cm prime carbons on it and a fsa slk seatpost. Too deep ? Wheels feel great .

fried bake

^^wheels look good, but a 0 offset seatpost is needed.

jordanair45

Thanks.

Agree. But. The kforce was $50 on nashbar. Couldn't resist. Saddle can.come.back a bit. Just installed it. Still working on the fit for this bike.